Kieran Earls is the second member of Bruff and the second representative of a Limerick club to win the National Gents Strokeplay championship.

2020 Matchplay champion Kieran becomes the 17th player in history to win the National Gents Matchplay and National Gents Strokeplay titles.

Kieran makes it four National Strokeplay wins in all for Bruff, adding to Liam O’Donovan’s three. 

Kieran’s winning return of 143 is a single stroke better than Damien Fleming’s successful 144 aggregate at the same venue six years ago.

Kieran finally lifts the Donnelly Cup after three fourth places in the National Strokeplay championship.

Three-time National Matchplay semi-finalist Jason O’Regan finished second in the National Strokeplay championship 22 years after his previous best performance in the event, fifth at E.S.B. in 2002, after leading into the final round.

Kerry supplied the runner-up for the second successive year and for the fourth time in 13 seasons.

The consecutive Kerry second placings are a first for the Kingdom and the first for any county since Frank Dineen (2020) followed Bryan Delaney (2019).

Edward Hennessy secured Tramore’s and Waterford’s first-ever third place in the National Strokeplay championship (since bronze medals were first officially awarded in 1987). Joe Fitzgerald is the only Waterford winner and Johnny Carroll the only Deise runner-up in the senior championship.

John Walsh finished fourth in the National Strokeplay championship for the fourth time on the occasion of his 19th time qualifying for the final eighteen.

3rd place was decided on the tiebreaker for the 18th time in history while countback was needed to decide fourth position for the 15th occasion.

It was a Munster 1-2-3-4 for the second year in a row. Tom O’Reilly did manage a Leinster presence on the podium as the Old County man grabbed the first-ever final eighteen prize.

The cut fell at 103, exactly the same mark as at Glenville in 2018. Four players who survived the cut six years ago made it through again in 2024 – Frank Dineen, Chris Gallagher, Eamon Gibney and Joe Joyce.  

Tom McMorrow is the first player (since Damien Creevey in 2015) from Lucan to win the National Intermediate Strokeplay championship. Tom is the fourth Lucan club member to claim the title.

Tom’s victory margin of four strokes equals the cushion enjoyed by Sean Clerkin twelve months ago and is the most comprehensive achieved by any of the four Lucan winners.

Ruairi Fortune is the first St. Patrick’s player to be runner-up in the National Intermediate Strokeplay championship. It’s a second successive silver medal for the Carlow/Kilkenny/Wexford region in the championship, after Patrick Robinson’s performance in 2023.

Billy Buckley (Collinstown) is the second player in history to take third place in the National Intermediate Strokeplay championship as well as being an All-Ireland Schools tournament runner-up. Billy is the first player ever to achieve both in a single season.

Alan Keating ensured a St. Anne’s presence on the National Intermediate Strokeplay championship podium for the second year in a row by claiming the first-ever official Final 18 prize. 

2020 Cork Strokeplay champion Callum O’Donovan is the second member of the Collins club (and the first for 51 years) to win the National Junior Strokeplay championship.

Callum’s seven stroke winning margin is the highest since Derek Delaney triumphed by seven at Ryston five years ago. Callum’s winning aggregate of 156 is sixteen shots better than the junior winning tally at Glenville in 2018.

Michael Holland is the first Leinster Juvenile Matchplay runner-up to subsequently finish second in the National Junior Strokeplay championship.

Michael went within one place of replicating club colleague Derek Delaney’s 2019 victory and is the first Gowran member to take National Junior Strokeplay silver.

Trevor Cummins is the first Trim player and the third from Co. Meath to clinch the bronze medal in the National Junior Strokeplay championship (since third place was officially awarded from 1987).

Ger Dinan clinched the Best Final 18 award and was the first E.S.B. player on the National Junior Strokeplay championship podium since Brian Higgins in 1992.

Tommy Dornian became the second winner of the National Junior B Strokeplay championship. He is the sixth Waterford club member to win any National Gents Junior Strokeplay championship (counting Ashgrove as Waterford since it was part of Waterford region when Tony Walsh won in 1990). 

Tommy Dornian and Edward Hennessy are the first two Tramore club members to achieve podium finishes in any grade in the National Gents Strokeplay championship.

Brian Andrews is obviously the second National Junior B Strokeplay runner-up. He achieves a first National Strokeplay podium finish for Ardnacrusha since Brian Dillon was third in Junior at Ryston five years ago. He is the first Ardnacrusha member to be second in any grade of the National Strokeplay championship since Alan Small was senior runner-up in 1985 at Tralee.

Patrick O’Neill is the second member of Bagenalstown (following Patrick Robinson in 2013) to achieve a podium finish in any national Junior Strokeplay championship. 

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