IRELAND’S quartet of major championship winners were shown the way home by York club class golfer Simon Dyson.

The 33-year-old burned up the course at the Killarney Golf and Fishing complex on a second day notable for how the mighty Irish challenge of Darren Clarke, Rory McIlroy, Graeme McDowell and Padraig Harrington did not match the pre-tournament hype.

While McDowell and McIlroy were four-under after two rounds, both Clarke and Harrington missed the cut.

Dyson meanwhile, produced one of the rounds of the day – an unblemished six-under-par 65 – to surge up the leaderboard to joint third position. Added to his first round one-under 70, Dyson was seven-under for the tournament going into today’s third round.

The Malton & Norton GC ace, back in action for the first time since his excellent joint ninth finish in The Open Championships at Sandwich earlier this month, was among three Englishmen in third spot – a mere two shots adrift of half-way leader Jeev Milkha Singh.

After four successive pars the world number 66, pictured, started his dismantling of the course.

He picked up shots on the fifth, seventh and eighth holes to get his charge under way.

And there was to be no let-up either on the inward nine.

Again after a run of pars, Dyson this time seized command with a hat-trick of successive birdies on 13, 14 and 15 before returning to level-par for the tricky run-in.

Harrogate GC’s John Parry was also well within the cut with a four-under-par two-round total after he followed up his first day 68 with a tougher level-par 71 in yesterday’s second round.