SIMON DYSON failed to make the cut on his return to European Tour action.

The 39-year-old Malton & Norton Golf Club star, following a six-week break, carded a disappointing six-over-par 79 on day one of the Trophy Hassan II to leave him out of the reckoning at the Royal Golf Dar Es Salam in Rabat, Morocco.

He followed with a two-over-par 75 in round two to miss the cut by six shots, finishing down in joint-120th place on eight-over.

Dyson made only three birdies across the two days, two of them coming at his favourite par-five 10th hole, while he augmented nine bogeys with a double-bogey at the par-four sixth in round one.

Italy's Edoardo Molinari took the first prize of 416,660 euros - and his first Tour title since the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles in August 2010 - after beating Irishman Paul Dunne at the first hole of a play-off, the pair having finished nine under par, one shot ahead of England's Paul Waring.

York-born Dyson, a six-time winner on the European Tour, whose career over the past two years has been blighted by injury, will be in action again on Thursday at the Shenzhen International in China, to be held at Genzon GC.

American star Bubba Watson, a two-time Masters champion, heads the cast.

Harrogate GC's John Parry pulled out of the Trophy Hassan II with injury after carding a first-round seven-over-par 80. He has made the cut only once in his six Tour events so far this season, and is ninth on the reserve list for the Shenzhen International.