Asia will play host to its first ever G4D Tour event in 2023, with the G4D Tour @ Singapore Classic becoming part an expanded global schedule.
The event - taking place February 6-7 alongside the DP World Tour's Singapore Classic - will be third of eight announced for 2023.
Kipp Popert - a four-time winner in the inaugural 2022 season - picked up where he left off in the campaign-opening Australian All Abilities Championship @ the ISPS HANDA Australian Open as he romped to a seven-shot victory.
Launched in 2022 with an initial seven-event schedule, the G4D Tour sees the world’s leading golfers with a disability compete on the same course, the same week, as professionals on the DP World Tour.
| Date | Event | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 2-4, 2022 | Australian All Abilities Championship @ ISPS HANDA Australian Open | Victoria Golf Club, Australia |
| Jan 13-14, 2023 | G4D Tour @ Hero Cup | Abu Dhabi Golf Club, Abu Dhabi |
| Feb 6-7, 2023 | G4D Tour @ Singapore Classic | Laguna National Golf Resort Club, Singapore |
| TBC | TBC | TBC |
| Jun 5-6, 2023 | G4D Tour @ Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed | Ullna Golf & Country Club, Sweden |
| Jun 26-27, 2023 | G4D Tour @ Betfred British Masters | The Belfry, England |
| Aug 14-16, 2023 | G4D Tour @ ISPS Handa World Invitational presented by AVIV Clinics | Galgorm Castle Golf Club, Northern Ireland |
| Sep 11-12, 2023 | G4D Tour @ BMW PGA Championship, a Rolex Series Event | Wentworth Club, England |
| Nov 17-18, 2023 | G4D Tour @ DP World Tour Championship, a Rolex Series Event | Jumeirah Golf Estates, Dubai |
The 2023 season will see additional uplifts to the G4D Tour, including the introduction of a season-long Order of Merit to crown the Number One player.
Each G4D Tour event is open to amateurs and professional players of all eligible impairments, men and women. For 2023, players will be able to qualify from both their ranking on the gross division of the World Ranking for Golfers with a Disability (WR4GD) and events on the European Disabled Golf Association (EDGA) Tour, ensuring an international pathway to reach the G4D Tour. The European Tour group pays the expenses of players as they travel around the world, to ensure that the Tour is open to all players regardless of their financial circumstances.
To be eligible, all players must have a World Ranking for Golfers with a Disability and an EDGA Player Pass. Since the G4D Tour launched earlier this year, applications for a World Ranking and Player Pass have reached record levels, with 20% of all passes secured in 2022 alone – showing the impact the G4D Tour is having on raising awareness and increasing participation. The DP World Tour will continue to utilise its social media channels, and relationships with global broadcasters, to showcase the G4D Tour on a range of media platforms throughout the 2023 season.
This year’s inaugural season, which had its finale at the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, saw England’s Mike Browne, Italy’s Tommaso Perrino and Sweden’s Rasmus Lia also win events alongside Popert. Players of ten different nationalities competed, showing the international reach of the Tour.
Speaking about the enhanced 2023 schedule Keith Pelley, Chief Executive of the European Tour group, said: “The G4D Tour has been a tremendous success since it launched earlier this year. We have seen unprecedented numbers of golfers with a disability enquire about playing on the Tour and getting a World Ranking, thanks to the ability for these inspirational players to play Tour level courses next to the best players on the DP World Tour.
“We have developed a very close relationship with EDGA and the European Tour group will continue to support the association in its focus on developing capacity within the golf industry, through a variety of education and development activities. I firmly believe that golf has the potential to be the most inclusive sport in the world and the G4D Tour is a major step in realising this ambition.”
Tony Bennett, President of EDGA, added: “The G4D Tour is the visible manifestation of EDGA’s development of golf for the disabled – a process that started 22 years ago. Since our first collaboration with the European Tour group and DP World Tour, there has been exponential growth at all levels. The G4D Tour has created greater awareness and resulted in a cascade effect with more tournaments at every level, more national federations building accessible activities, and of course, more grassroots programmes than ever before. The support that the European Tour group and DP World Tour provide to EDGA helps make all of this possible.”
To view the full 2023 G4D Tour schedule, click here.
