WORLD club class Simon Dyson kept the York banner fluttering high in the US PGA Championship.

Two days of intense golf at the Atlanta Athletic Club nudged the 33-year-old York-born ace into an attacking position in the last two days of the final major of the season.

Of the English contingent only world number two Lee Westwood headed Dyson at the half-way point.

Two double bogeys at the par-four eighth and 11th holes sent Dyson 35 places down the leader-board after earlier going third with a birdie on the par-three seventh.

But Dyson rallied to pick up a shot on the 12th as he posted a two-over 72.

The double-doldrums of the second day were in sharp contrast to the opening round when not only was he the highest-placed Englishman, but also the leading European player.

Continuing his stirring form from the World Golf Championships, and the Irish Open, which he captured for his fifth European Tour crown, Dyson birdied his opening hole, the tenth. He got another shot at the 17th before going to three-under on the par-four first.

Dyson bogeyed the second and fourth, but a birdie on the sixth gave him a four-under-par 68 and a share of fifth place on the first day.