DESPITE the challenging handicap of not playing any tournament golf for more than three weeks, York’s Simon Dyson defied the odds to feature in all four rounds of the US Open Championship.

And the 34-year-old produced his best play on yesterday’s final day of the second major of the season.

However, Dyson’s final placing at the Olympic Club complex in San Francisco, was unknown as the leaders were still to complete their rounds before today’s edition of The Press was published.

Dyson posted two rounds of 74 to just make the half-way cut. He replicated that brace with a third round 74.

In the final round, he laboured with five bogeys in the opening nine holes eased a tad by a lone birdie on the fourth.

But his inward nine was superb. He carded three birdies on the 12th, 15th and 17th holes for a brilliant 71 and a rise of at least a dozen places.