SIMON Dyson's return to England proved an unhappy one as he crashed out of the Daily Telegraph Damovo British Masters at the mid-way point.

The North Yorkshire ace, who has only just returned to the competitive circuit after missing a month with a broken bone in his left arm, could not retrieve the woe of a first day five-over-par 77 when he resumed yesterday at the Forest of Arden course.

Dyson started the second round promisingly with a birdie on the third hole. But that was erased by a dropped shot on the fifth. Another birdie on the tenth was then lost by bogies on the 12th, 14th and the par-five 17th, where his troubles began on the first day when he suffered a triple-bogey.

Updated: 10:13 Saturday, May 08, 2004