THREE tournaments totalling $17 million will signal the end of Simon Dyson’s most successful golf season – and he is aiming to take a big slice of the mega-money on offer.

Since scooping the KLM Dutch Open in August and then capturing the coveted Alfred Dunhill Links Championship last month for his fourth European Tour title in less than four years, York-born Dyson has not only muscled into the world’s top 50 players but he is playing like he belongs there.

Now the stage is set for a triple slam opening with the fourth World Golf Championship tourney of the season, the HSBC Champions event in China tomorrow.

That event which is open to invitation and the leading 60 players in the world – Dyson is currently 47th – is worth a cool $7 million.

That is then followed next week by the UBS Hong Kong Open with total prize money of $2.5 million before the climax to the European Tour, the inaugural $7.5 million Race To Dubai World Championship, at The Earth course from November 19 to 22.

For Dyson though the immediate target is the WGC event in Shanghai at the Shenshan International club.

Seven of the world’s top ten players led by outright leader Tiger Woods are gathered and no fewer than 21 of the globe’s leading 30 players.

The 31-year-old Dyson should head into the China event in high spirits after a promising show which put him on the verge of qualification for the Volvo World Match-play Championship semi-finals at the Finca Cortesin course in Spain.

In the round-robin group matches, he dumped world number seven Henrik Sweden of Sweden to a resounding defeat and was just four holes away from beating Irishman Rory McIlroy. However his challenge faded by losing three of the last four holes and then crashing to superlative putting from US Masters champion Angel Cabrera in the final group game.

Dyson however displayed he has the game and the nerve to compete with the best. He will start his first round – there is no midway cut in this tournament – on the tenth hole tomorrow alongside Japan’s Stetson-wearing Shingo Katayama and American Jerry Kelly.