THE heat is on and York-born irons man Simon Dyson is relishing the prospect.

Dyson returns to the European Tour after a mini-break with an appearance in the Barclays Singapore Open tomorrow.

The tournament represents a big opportunity for the 32-year-old to get back to the sensational form that almost bagged him a place in the European Ryder Cup team last month.

Then, in a startling sequence he posted a clutch of top-five and top-ten finishes only to narrowly miss out as one of the nine automatic selections for Colin Montgomerie’s team which eventually beat the Americans to regain the Ryder Cup at the Celtic Manor course in south Wales.

However, the Malton and Norton Golf Club ace returned from his first break in seven weeks to the Andalucia Masters a fortnight ago and bizarrely crashed out of any sort of contention when a second round ten-over-par 81 hurled him well above the mark to make the half-way cut.

Since then Dyson has embarked on a mini-break in Dubai before jetting off last weekend for Singapore and this week’s $6 million tournament at the exotically named Taijang and Serapong Sentosa club.

The Singapore Open is immediately followed by the UBS Hong Kong Open at the Fanling GC, worth another $2.5 million, before the Race To Dubai concludes with the Dubai World Championships – the $7.5 million culmination of this year’s European Tour – at the Jumeirah complex from November 25 to 28.

Dyson is seeking a strong finish to the season in which he is currently ranked at 73rd in the world.

And he will hope his fondness for the heat and humidity of the Far East will accord him an extra edge to that drive.

Said Dyson: “I do like playing out there, ever since I journeyed to the Far East in my rookie year to play on the Far East Tour.

“I like the heat and I do seem to perform well there.

“My record has always been good.

“So I have come out here with the attitude of finishing as high as I can in the final three tournaments finishing with the one in Dubai.”

As he surveyed the trio of tourneys to wrap up 2010 Dyson added: “They are three big tournaments at three great courses, so if I can get back to the sort of unbelievable form I enjoyed before the Andalucia Masters then I can hope to finish on a high.”