YORK’S greens giant Simon Dyson is convinced he still has a title in him this season as Europe’s golfing renaissance gathers momentum towards Ryder Cup combat.

Starting from today’s first round of the Alstom Open in Paris, Dyson has targeted the month of July for a concerted attack on bagging his fifth title on the European Tour and his first since he rampaged through the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship field nine months ago.

The 32-year-old Dyson is still eighth in the Ryder Cup rankings but, while achieving a coveted place on the team to take on the might of the USA at the Celtic Manor complex in October would realise another life-long aim, his goal now is to return to the top of the leader-board and bank another title.

The upshot of bagging his fifth Euro crown would likely seal his place in captain Colin Montgomerie’s Ryder ranks, but it is not the Ryder Cup duel that is Dyson’s principal motivation.

That remains his burning desire to rule the roost again and get another championship under his belt.

Said the current world number 73: “I can see a title for me this season, for sure.

“I just need to keep doing what I have been doing because I have been playing well without getting the reward.

“I’ve been working on a few extra things over the past two weeks so I am in good shape.”

His last official tournament was the US Open at the feted Pebble Beach course in California. He missed the half-way cut agonisingly by a single shot as he had the first major of the season, the Masters at Augusta back in April.

Recalled Dyson: “I had at least eight putts some 12 feet from the hole to make a birdie or par.

“But each time I was on the wrong side of the hole and the greens there are so notorious that I could not just go for the hole as the putt would shoot right past.

“If just four or five had them had gone in I would have been just three off the lead. That’s how close it was.”

Ahead of today’s crack at the French Open, which carries a prize fund of three million euros, the Malton & Norton Golf Club ace said the next month to six weeks would be significant in his bid to acquire yet another Continental crown and those precious Ryder Cup points.

From the French Open in which he plays alongside North-Easterner Graeme Storm and Argentina’s Daniel Vancsik, he journeys to the Barclays Scottish Open at Loch Lomond followed by The Open at St Andrews before rounding off a hectic July at the 3International tournament in Ireland.

After a brief week-long break Dyson will then launch his attempt at the year’s final major, the USPGA championship at Whistling Straits on August 12, before making his first incursion on the Czech Open, which carries a high Ryder Cup reward.

“It’s all go but this is what it’s all about,” he said.