YORK’S swing commander Simon Dyson was returning to Europe after a superb return to the competitive circuit.

Despite being absent from tournament play for more than three weeks after being ordered by doctors to rest a potentially serious pelvic injuury, the 34-year-old Dyson made his comeback at no less than the US Open Championship.

And against all odds he not only survived the cut to play on all four days of the season’s second major, but Dyson also finished joint 51st in a star-studded field of 156 of the world’s leading players.

His three rounds of four-over-par 74 were then bettered on the last day with a one-over par 71 at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.

That 13-over-par four round total – the event was won by America’s Webb Simpson, who finished one-over for the four days – earned Dyson more than 20,000 euros in prize money and elevated him one place in the world rankings to 47th.