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Kipp Popert completes Wentworth hat-trick in emphatic style
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Kipp Popert completes Wentworth hat-trick in emphatic style

Kipp Popert won his third consecutive G4D Tour @ BMW PGA Championship title with a stunning four-shot victory at Wentworth Club.

The Englishman entered the second round tied at the top with Irishman Brendan Lawlor but showed exactly why he is World Number One with a 69 that gave him a six under total.

The duo could not be separated as they both turned in 35 on the West Course but Popert made a hat-trick of gains from the 14th to stretch clear and win his third individual G4D Tour title of the season.

He also won the G4D Tour Nations Cup @ Betfred British Masters alongside Heather Gilks and now has 12 G4D Tour wins to his name.

"That was incredible," he said. "In all honesty I felt quite a lot of pressure this week just because I would love to have won three times in a row coming in here and I wanted to try and shoot some good scores.

"Me and Brendan had an absolutely great battle today and yesterday, he is very close to being back at his best and it's awesome to see and I'm really chuffed for him.

"It was awesome and I really enjoyed it."

Popert quickly jumped out into a two-shot lead with a birdie-birdie start as Lawlor bogeyed the first but picked the shot straight back up on the second.

A Lawlor birdie on the fourth and Popert bogey on the next then had the playing partners locked together once again, with Lawlor registering another birdie and bogey before the turn.

Popert made eight pars in a row as Lawlor bogeyed the 11th and birdied the 13th but Popert's stunning run of scoring saw him surge clear, with a Lawlor bogey on the last ensuring a four-shot win.

For Lawlor, it is a seventh G4D runner-up finish, with his one victory coming at last year's inaugural G4D Open.

England's Mike Browne and Australian Lachlan Wood, both winners this season, finished in a tie for third at four over.

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