2025 U16 National Matchplay Stats by John Manning

Jack McShane is the first player from Gowran and the first from Co. Kilkenny to win the National Boys’ Matchplay championship.

Jack is the second player in history (after Castletown’s Evan Carry) to win both the National Boys’ Matchplay championship and the National Boys’ Strokeplay championship.

Jack is the first player in history to win the National Boys’ Matchplay championship having previously been a defeated finalist.

Harry Concannon ensured that Gowran supplied the runner-up of the National Boys’ Matchplay championship for the second successive year.

Parteen was the only other club to provide the runner-up in successive years. Shea Fennell was the defeated finalist in both 2018 and 2019.

Harry Concannon joins clubmate Jack McShane and Mark Cadden (Oldcastle) as a National Juvenile Strokeplay Under-13 winner to also be a National Boys’ Matchplay championship runner-up.

Jack McShane and Harry Concannon featured in the first National Boys’ Matchplay championship final to be contested by two players representing the same club.

Cilian Corcoran is the first member of Fermoy to reach a National Boys’ Matchplay championship semi-final.

Cillian emulates Ryston’s Daniel Campbell in contesting a National Boys’ Matchplay championship semi-final on his own course. Daniel went to reach the 2022 final.

Fionn McMonagle is the sixth Deerpark player to lose a National Boys’ Matchplay championship semi-final. That’s the most by any club in history. 2023 champion Brian McCarthy is the only Deerpark player to win a National Boys’ Matchplay championship semi-final.

Sarah Ryan is the first player in history to retain the National Girls Matchplay championship title and is the first player ever to win the championship on two occasions.

Pippa Cuffe is the first player from Kilbeggan and the first from Co. Westmeath to reach a National Girls Matchplay championship final.

Pippa is the second National Girls Strokeplay champion in history (after Sarah Cooney) to also be a National Girls Matchplay championship runner-up.

Pippa Cuffe ensured a Kilbeggan presence in the last four of the National Girls Matchplay championship for the fifth time in six seasons (Pippa’s sister Gemma played in four semi-finals, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024).

2023 champion Molly O'Toole reached the semi-finals for the third consecutive year. Seapoint’s Sarah Cooney (the 2022 winner) contested semi-finals in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Gemma Hayden is the first player from Portmarnock and the first from Dublin to play in a National Girls Matchplay championship semi-final.

Sean Condron is the first player from Kilbeggan and the second from Co. Westmeath (after Collinstown’s Jack Buckley seven years ago) to win the National Boys’ Matchplay championship Plate.

Sean is the first player to win the Plate having previously been runner-up.

Sean ensured a Co. Westmeath presence in the National Boys’ Matchplay championship Plate final for the third year in a row.

Ben Franklin is the first player from Hillview and the first from Tipperary to be National Boys’ Matchplay championship Plate runner-up.

Ben goes one better than clubmate Cillian O’Reilly who reached the semi-finals last year.

Aaron Seery is the third Kilbeggan member (after Conor Mullins and Jack Mullins) to be a defeated National Boys Matchplay championship Plate semi-finalist.  

Sean Condron and Aaron Seery are the second set of clubmates to face-off in a National Boys Matchplay championship Plate semi-final. Deerpark’s Adam Kelly and Ryan Neeson played each other at St. Stephen’s in 2017.

Brad Meehan is the first member of Bagenalstown to reach a National Boys Matchplay championship Plate semi-final.

Brad becomes the fourth Leinster Juvenile Matchplay Plate winner (after Evan Carry, Eoghan Morrissey and Billy Buckley) to reach (at least) the semi-finals of the National Boys Matchplay championship Plate.

For the first time ever, the National Girls Matchplay runner-up and National Boys Matchplay championship Plate winner represented the same club – Kilbeggan.

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