YORK golfer Simon Dyson struggled on the first day of the Lyoness Open in Vienna.

Dyson finished five over par for the first round and sat 12 shots off the top of the leaderboard.

He made birdies at three holes but paid the price for a triple bogey on the ninth.

A six-time former winner on the European Tour, Dyson had been looking to build on a promising display at the Nordea Masters last weekend, where he finished in the Top 60 and won nearly £3,800.

However, he has struggled for consistency following wrist surgery two summers ago and will need a major improvement in Friday's second round to avoid missing the cut.

Dyson's overnight position was joint 132nd on the leaderboard with only 14 players recording bigger scores.

Sweden's Johan Carlsson and South Africa's Jaco Van Zyl set the early pace with five under par rounds of 67 but Chile's Filipe Aguilar is the overnight leader on seven under par.