Rahil Gangjee shot three-over 75 but still moved up the leaderboard at the end of third round of the Gateway to the Open Mizuno Open here Saturday.
Gangjee is now six-over and tied-44th from tied-57th after two rounds.
Starting from the tenth, Gangjee bogeyed the 16th and the 17th but found a birdie on the 18th. It was to be his only birdie of the day as he also bogeyed twice on the front nine, on second and seventh, at the Royal Golf Club.
Yuta Ikeda carded six-under 66 to move into lead at six-under 210 and he was one ahead of Chan Kim (69) at five-under.
Won Joon Lee (72) and Kyung Tae-Kim (72) were tied for third, while overnight leader Shugo Imahira (77) slipped to tied-5th with Dylan Perry (73) and Ryutaro Nagano (74).
The top four in this event qualify for the Open in Ireland in July.