NORTH Yorkshire club-class master Simon Dyson has a new global destination - breaking into the world's top 100 players.

Visions of Spain and then a grand finale in Portugal are the immediate aim for Dyson to sign off 2005, but the 27-year-old cannot wait for the 2006 season to arc into view.

Dyson's dedicated upswing in form for almost the last two-thirds of the current campaign is at the core of his optimism. Since making several radical changes to clubs and his mental preparation, he has barely missed a tournament cut.

Admission to the world's top 100 is what is now driving him on and to achieve that goal he also told the Evening Press that he believes he is close to winning a major tournament on the European Tour for the first time.

"Breaking into that top 100 - that's what I aim to do next season. I'm 173rd now and I've been as high as 171st this season, but I want a place in the top 100," said the man, who still retains his Malton and Norton GC membership.

"I am currently playing the best golf I have ever played and I feel that I am now a far better player than I was at the beginning of the year.

"Hopefully I can start next season in the manner I've finished this one, because right now it doesn't feel as if I'm too far away from winning a tournament."

The European Tour resumed this weekend with the Canaries Open, but Dyson opted to forego that trip to have a mini-break before embarking on the next two Euro destinations - the Madrid Open (October 13-16) and the Mallorca Classic (October 20-23).

Both events total more than two million euros in prize money and Dyson is hoping to rake in some of that cash so as to maintain his place in the top 60 on the European Order of Merit and thereby automatically qualify for the Tour's end of season extravaganza - the Volvo Masters at the renowned Valderrama circuit in Portugal from October 27-30.

Dyson is 53rd in the Euro rankings after his joint 49th place in the Dunhill Links championship and he is confident he can hang on to his leading 60 status in the Merit marks to make the Valderrama tournament for which the cash fund totals a whopping £2,700,000.

The king of swing - North Yorkshire's most successful golf pro - currently holds two European records.

He boasts the best birdie/eagle sequence of nine-under-par in just eight holes after five birdies and two eagles in a round of the BMW International Open in August. He also shares the record of most consecutive eagles (two) from the same round and memorably posted a stunning ten-under-par 62 at the course which would have equalled the Nord-Eichenreid course record but for the tournament having preferred lies.

Updated: 09:17 Saturday, October 08, 2005