BACK in the USA, York’s world elite golfer Simon Dyson is plotting a mission implausible.

Dyson’s dip in form over the past month has seen the four-time title-winner of the European Tour drop out of the places for automatic selection for the European team to tackle their American counterparts in the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor in October.

He has also seen his world ranking fall from the top 50 to its present standing of 83.

Tomorrow Dyson takes up the clubs again in Ohio for the prestigious World Golf Championship Bridgestone Invitational event – thanks to his former top 50 status – as a prelude to the last major of the season, the USPGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin in eight days’ time.

The boost for Dyson is that the WGC tournament has no midway cut, so the 32-year-old Malton & Norton GC ace is guaranteed four full rounds after last week bowing out of the 3 Irish Open at the half-way stage.

His Ryder Cup dreams may now be remote, but if he can conjure a high finish at the WGC event and continue an upswing in form at the USPGA championship, in which he was the best-placed Briton when tied for sixth spot three years ago, then Dyson could still force his way back into the thinking of European captain Colin Montgomerie.