Ireland’s Brendan Lawlor has swept to the top of the World Ranking for Golfers with Disability (WR4GD) after some spectacular back-to-back EDGA tournament wins.
The young man from Dundalk started a steady rise up the Ranking a couple of years ago after a string of fine performances in events on the EDGA tournament circuit including winning the EDGA Scottish Open in 2019.
Successive victories in first the EDGA Cazoo Open in Wales in July and then on Sunday (August 1) in the ISPS Handa World Disability Invitational in Northern Ireland (an event he hosted with Modest! Golf Management) have taken Brendan to the hallowed Number One spot on the WR4GD, ahead of Jiri Janda of the Czech Republic in second place and in third place, Italy’s Tomasso Perrino, who was actually runner-up to Lawlor in both Wales and Northern Ireland.
In that pair of two-round tournaments Brendan was under par on three occasions out of four on highly challenging course set-ups at Celtic Manor and then Massereene GC and Calgorm Castle, playing the same courses as the European Tour players in attendance, as the European Tour generously hosted the two EDGA supported tournaments as part of the EDGA European Tour 2021.
The top eight players from four EDGA European Tour 2021 events qualify for the EDGA Dubai Finale to be staged at the European Tour’s DP World Tour Championship, Dubai at Jumeirah Golf Estates in November.
