THE place: Indonesia, the target: in the mix – that’s North Yorkshire’s Simon Dyson as he seeks to repeat the feat of recapturing his first European Golf Tour crown.

Three years ago Dyson, pictured, shattered his Tour duck when he captured the Indonesian Open championship.

Now he is back on course in the Far East for a second helping after he remained in joint second place and even closer to the lead at the midway point.

In a second round in which scoring was far less scorch-worthy than the first round at the New Kuta Club in Bali, the 31-year-old Malton and Norton GC player posted a one-under-par 71.

Earlier, he had completed the two holes left over from a rain-ravaged first day to complete a protracted first round with a healthy four-under-68 which left him joint second but four behind the day’s best score.

Dyson, playing alongside China number one Lee-chong Wiang and last season’s title-holder Chilean Felipe Aguilar, started his second round on the tenth hole and was quickly in trouble as the less malign conditions headed by a blustery wind started to bite.

He dropped shots on the 11th and 13th holes but got back with birdies on the 15th and 17th.

That improved form gained another shot on the second, only for that to be wiped out by a bogey on the next, before he re-gathered his calm for a final birdie and a sub-par round on the ninth.

That left Dyson as one of three players – the others being Jamie Donaldson of Wales and Norway’s Jeppe Huldahl – on 138, just a lone shot shy of leader, Britain’s Steve Webster, after he fired a second successive round of 69.