Embattled Dyson pulls out of Turkish Open

Under-fire Simon Dyson has withdrawn from next week’s US$7 million Turkish Airlines Open, as the fallout from his disqualification for a “serious breach” of the rules in Shanghai intensifies.

England’s Dyson faces a probable lengthy ban from the tour when he goes before an independent disciplinary panel to answer a charge of deliberately tapping down a spike mark on the line of his putt.

His name was missing from the final entry list for the event that begins next Thursday in Antalya when entries closed on Friday.

In joint second place after two rounds of the BMW Masters last week at Lake Malaren, Dyson was seen on television deliberately tapping down a spike mark on the line of his putt on the eighth green on Friday, and was disqualified.

Dyson was in breach of Rule 16-1a, which states that “a player must not touch his line of putt”.

He should have added a two-shot penalty to his card, and was therefore disqualified for signing for the wrong score.