Across seven tournaments in five countries, the fourth season of the G4D Tour played out in 2024-25.
Beginning in Australia and ending in Spain, featuring stops in England, Ireland and for the first time France, 24 players representing 13 different nationalities competed across Gross and Net events.
The schedule resulted in five different winners, three of whom were first-time winners, as the campaign featured a new-look climax.
Here, we chart a campaign that continued to play its part in promoting how golf can be the most inclusive sport in the world.
For the third season in a row, the action began Down Under at the ISPS HANDA All Abilities Championship from November 28 to December 1 2024.
Featuring 12 of the best disability golfers, the three-day season opener concluded at Kingston Heath with South Korea’s Simon Seungmin Lee winning in challenging conditions over the celebrated Melbourne Sandbelt layout.
Lee, who was diagnosed with a form of autism and developmental disability at three years old, took a six-shot lead into the third and final round, and the 2022 US Adaptive Open champion closed out the week with a 74 to secure a comprehensive 14-shot victory over World Number One Kipp Popert and local favourite Wayne Perske.
“I feel so good. It was a similar feeling (to his win in the US) when the putt went in at the end,” said Lee after his debut Australian All Abilities Championship win.
"I just tried to hold on to grips tightly and then keep thinking in my mind, 'I can do it, I can do it, I can do it'.
"I am very happy and I want thank to my parents, my grandmother and grandfather in Korea, and all my sponsors.”
The pinnacle of the G4D Tour was once again The G4D Open – delivered in partnership by the DP World Tour and The R&A.
Back at Woburn for a third consecutive year, 80 players covering 21 nationalities and nine sports classes competed over the Duchess Course.
At the end of the three-day Major, Brendan Lawlor and Daphne van Houten were left celebrating triumphs in the individual men’s and women’s events respectively.
For Lawlor, who has a rare condition called Ellis–van Creveld syndrome, it saw the Irishman win the title for a second time, two years on from winning the inaugural edition.
“It feels unbelievable,” beamed Lawlor. “I played extremely solid all week."
Van Houten, who was born with scoliosis and has since faced other health battles, defended the title she had won for the first time 12 months before.
“I'm very proud of myself that I finished the round, played good and won," she said.
It has since been announced that The G4D Open will move to Celtic Manor under a new three-year venue agreement from 2026.
After a three-month break in the schedule, the G4D Tour picked up in August at The Belfry as a ten-strong field teed it up in the same week as the Betfred British Masters hosted by Sir Nick Faldo.
Five players were making their G4D Tour debut and it was one of them that was left celebrating victory as South Africa’s Daniel Slabbert, an above-knee amputee, beat Joshua Exequiel Riccardo in a play-off after finishing birdie-birdie in regulation play.
"I'm absolutely delighted," said Slabbert. "Especially with the play-off holes, I got a bit nervous out there."
It was the first of four events in a five-week span, with a return to The K Club for the G4D Tour @ Amgen Irish Open following shortly after.
Having been on the sidelines for the first half of the year following foot surgery that saw him miss out on defending his title at The G4D Open, Popert - the world’s top-ranked golfer with a disability - enjoy a winning return to the G4D Tour, on the back of winning the US Adaptive Open, as a flawless final round saw him claim a two-shot victory in Ireland.
A week later, the Englishman, who has cerebral palsy that affects his lower body, produced a dominant display to win the G4D Tour @ BMW PGA Championship for a fourth consecutive year at Wentworth Club.
After back-to-back Gross events featuring players who have become accustomed to competing on the G4D Tour, the action moved to France for the first time as Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche played host to the leading Net golfers.
A scintillating 28 on the back nine of the final day's action saw Mark Clougherty storm to a dominant maiden victory.
The military veteran has overcome incredible adversity to make it to the pinnacle of the all abilities game after being medically discharged from the Royal Military Police in 2013.
"That's the monkey off my back," he said following his victory. "With my PTSD I really suffer with anxiety and confidence and that today has just proved that I can play and I'm capable of playing at a high level if I just set my mind to it and make the game simple."
The culmination of the campaign had a new look, with the event moving from Dubai to Spain to be staged in conjunction with the Rolex Grand Final supported by The R&A, the season-ending event on the HotelPlanner Tour.
Club de Golf Alcanada in Mallorca welcomed a ten-player field, comprising Gross and Net winners from the season, with the tournament having two separate competitions run in parallel.
The three-day season climax saw Popert and Slabbert secure dominant victories.
Popert made it back-to-back Series Finale wins after easing to a seven-shot triumph at the Alcúdia venue, and the 27-year-old is now a 16-time winner as both an individual and team member on the G4D Tour since its inception in 2022.
Slabbert ran out a ten-shot victor in the Net event to scoop his second G4D Tour title of the season, carding rounds of 76-75-80 to finish ahead of Irishman Clougherty.
