A MISSION possible in Malaysia awaits York’s swingmaster Simon Dyson in the drive to erase his Masters mayhem.

Dyson embarks on the Maybank Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow still smarting from his second Masters outing, which ended like the first – exit at the half-way stage.

Unlike his debut of two years ago when he just missed the midway cut by a mere solo stroke, the 34-year-old Dyson was several shots off the permitted allowance after he endured a six-over-par 78 in the first round and a 77 on the second.

In both rounds, the damage was done on the respective back nines.

Dyson triple-bogeyed the par-four 11th on the first day of the opening major of the season, while he suffered no fewer than five dropped shots on Friday’s inward nine.

However, there were the mitigating circumstances that Dyson took up the challenge of pitting his skills against the exacting demands of the Augusta National course having not played a competitive round of golf in close on three weeks.

He and wife Lyndsey have just celebrated the arrival of their first child, daughter Isabella Rose.

Now Dyson is in the Far East where his professional career took off like a meteor a dozen years ago. In his rookie season in the year 2000, he won the Asian Tour.

Back then those events were not included in the European Tour. Now they are an integral part of the money-laden, season-ending Race To Dubai, with tomorrow’s tournament comprising a prize fund total of $2½ million.

The six-time Euro Tour title-winner follows the Malaysian Open with the Volvo China Open next week.

Dyson goes into tomorrow’s event with his world placing slipping by just one position to 37th.

But a bigger boost will be that, despite that slight dip, he is now the fifth-highest rated Englishman in the world rankings.

The only four players ahead of him are his long-time friend Luke Donald (world number one), Lee Westwood (number three), Justin rose (ten) and Ian Poulter (25).

The Malton & Norton GC player will play the first two rounds at the Kuala Lumpur Country Club alongside South Africa’s Branden Grace, who won the second and third events on the European Tour calendar this year – the Joburg Open and the Volvo Golf Champions event.

The three-ball is completed by American David Lipsky, who is making his European Tour debut.