With inclement weather resulting in Friday’s play being cancelled, the G4D Tour Season Finale @ DP World Tour Championship was reduced to 18 holes at Jumeirah Golf Estates.

Browne posted a one under par 71 to finish ahead of World Number One Kipp Popert, inaugural G4D Open winner Brendan Lawlor and Canada’s Kurtis Barkley who finished in a tie for second place.

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The Englishman won his maiden G4D title in Ireland last year and he was delighted to make an emotional return to the winner’s circle at the Earth course.

“That was a pretty special day,” he said. “The course was playing amazing.

“That one was for my dad. We lost him a year ago.”

The Englishman began with a bogey but bounced back immediately with a birdie at the par five second, before getting into the red by also birdieing the long seventh.

Leg-amputee Browne held a one-shot lead after his opening nine holes, with World Number One Kipp Popert and fellow G4D Tour winner David Watts his nearest challengers.

Back-to-back gains at the 11th and 12th extended his advantage to four shots, before he closed with a double bogey after taking shot penalty following his second shot at the par five 18th.

This was the eighth and final event of an expanded second season of the G4D Tour.

During the season, the world’s best golfers with a disability have played at some iconic venues, something that is not lost on Browne.

“You can’t put it into words,” he said, “You are sharing the course with the greats of modern times so I feel very privileged and lucky to get this chance.

“Thank you to everyone who has got me to this point.”

Fellow Englishman Popert, who won four times this season, mixed two birdies with four bogeys to finish at two over, while Lawlor and Barkley made closing birdies to both card a two over par 74.

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The WR4GD (World Ranking for Golfers with a Disability) No. 7 is joined by the nine other top 10 players in the world, follwing his Horizon Irish Open triumph at Mount Juliet in June.

“I decided to play a lot on the G4D Tour this year, helping to promote disability golf,” said Browne. “The standard these guys can play at now is phenomenal and the world needs to see how good disabled golf is, especially at the peak of the EDGA series it’s pretty special.”

World No. 1 Brendan Lawlor will be bidding for his first G4D Tour victory after finishing runner-up on two occasions this season, while No. 2 Kipp Popert in the world will go in search of a hat-trick of 2022 titles. The young Englishman defeated Kurtis Barkley in a play-off at The Belfry to win at the British Masters in May and then needed extra holes to beat Lawlor at the Porsche European Open later that month.

Joining Popert and Browne on home soil in the 10-man field is Bradley Smith, who earned his place at Wentworth after winning three of five EDGA (European Disabled Golf Association) tournaments he has played in this season.

“I’m really looking forward to playing on home turf, especially at Wentworth,” said Smith. “Fingers crossed we get some good home support. It’s going to be pretty magical.”

As winners on the Tour this year, Browne, Perrino and Popert have already earned their places in the G4D Tour Series Finale @ DP World Tour Championship, which will take place ahead of the final Rolex Series event of the season at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai this November.

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