YORK’S club class Simon Dyson was fighting to make the cut in the year’s second major – the US Open Championship.

The world number 48 – playing his first competitive golf in just under a month after recovering from a serious pelvis injury – was being sorely tested, as was the rest of the star-studded field, by the Olympic Club in San Francisco.

After a credible opening round in which he finished a third of the way down the field after a four-over-74 – seven bogeys punctuated by three birdies – the Malton & Norton Golf Club ace was struggling to make much headway in yesterday’s second round.

By the outward nine Dyson, who started on the ninth, dropped three shots to teeter on seven-under.

Dyson bagged a birdie on the par-four 18th, his first hole on the inward nine, but lost that advantage with a bogey on the next.

Four holes later he dropped another shot and posted a second 74 for an anxious wait.

With many of the first round overnight leaders still to complete their second round, the projected cut was unknown before going to press.