The third event of the 2023 G4D Tour season takes place this week with a ten-player field competing at the G4D Tour @ Singapore Classic.
Kipp Popert won his fifth G4D Tour title at the season-opening Australian All Abilities Championship @ the ISPS HANDA Australian Open and is in action along with fellow winners from 2022 Rasmus Lia and Tommaso Perrino.
Joining those three at Laguna National are Bradley Smith, David Watts, Conor Stone and Geoff Nicholas, who is making his third consecutive appearance having made his debut on home soil in December.
The line-up at the first-ever G4D Tour event to be held in Asia is completed by three players making their G4D Tour debuts and here, we get to know them a little better.
Aidan Grenham
Ireland
World Ranking for Golfers with Disability (WR4GD) - 13
The 25-year-old is a below-the-knee right leg amputee from Galway, losing his leg more than six years ago after suffering a fall from height. He played his part in Ireland’s thrilling five-shot victory in EGA’s European Tour Championship in Belgium last June, with former World Number One Brendan Lawlor and Stone among his teammates. Soon after, he came up one shot short of winning the inaugural Irish Open for Golfers with a Disability, one of three runner-up finishes in events for players with disabilities last year. His consistent run of performances in his debut season on the EDGA Tour has lifted him inside the top 15 on the world rankings. He arrives in Singapore after finishing second at the EDGA Amendoeira Open in Portugal in mid-January.
Oliver Hirst-Greenham
England
WR4GD - 17
Hirst-Greenham has congenital hip dysplasia, a condition where he was born with very shallow hip sockets, creating chronic issues for the muscles, tendons and bones in his hip and leg. He made his EDGA debut in the PING Open for Golfers with a Disability in June 2022, quickly impressing as he won the EDGA RSM Gross Series tournament at Stratford-on-Avon Golf Club, England, in September. In his first seven months of competing on the EDGA Tour, the Englishman has climbed into the top 20 and caught the eye with his distance off the tee.
Rob Walden
United States
WR4GD – 22
In February 2016, Walden was launching a large model aeroplane at his house when it malfunctioned and the 32-inch propeller sliced off most of the four fingers on his right hand. Despite essentially swinging one-handed, he plays off scratch and is regarded as one of the biggest hitters off the tee. In addition to competing alongside the world’s leading golfers with a disability, he works as a coach in Phoenix for First Tee, a youth development organisation that empowers children by combining the game of golf with a life skills curriculum.
