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Ladies Strokeplay Stats by John Manning
Chrissie Sheedy moves on to six National Ladies Strokeplay championship titles, which ties the Ryston lady with the legendary Cork great Clare Keating, in joint second place on the all-time list, behind the incomparable Geraldine Ward.
With thirteen national individual senior grade championships (six Strokeplay and seven Matchplay), Chrissie moves to within one of Clare Keating’s one-time seemingly impregnable record of fourteen.
Chrissie wins the Strokeplay and Matchplay in the same year for the first time ever, joining Tracey McGrath Redmond (2009), Peggy Campbell (2002), Norma O’Brien (1991), Teresa McGuigan (1966) along with Ger Ward and Clare Keating, who both achieved the double four times.
Chrissie’s signed for 153 at McDonagh. That’s the highest of her five winning 54-hole tallies and the highest overall in that format since Breda White also won with 153, at St. Stephen’s in 2016.
Tracey Redmond finished second for the second time in the championship, making the Co. Offaly native the 14th multiple runners-up in championship history.
Tracey’s 157 aggregate at McDonagh matched the score she posted when she previously finished second – at Cunnigar in 2010.
Tara Dillon claimed the bronze medal in the National Ladies Strokeplay championship for the fifth time – that’s the most by any player since third place was officially awarded from 1987. Tara moves one ahead of friend and club colleague Marian Byrne Courtney on that particular list.
160 is the highest score to achieve third position since Martha O’Brien’s 161 at Ierne in 2012.
Tara finished third and Chrissie was champion – the same positions they filled in 2011 at Ring Commons and in 2013 at Navan.
European Team champions Tara and Chrissie joined each other on the same 1-2-3 podium for the fifth time at the National Strokeplay championship.
Breda White claimed fourth place for the third time (and for the second year in a row) in 54-hole stagings of the championship.
A Leinster player collected the title for the sixth successive year.
Mairead O'Toole lifted the National ladies Intermediate Strokeplay championship for the second time, a feat previously achieved by Linda O’Donovan, Bridget Shelley and Sarah O’Neill.
Mairead’s previous win was in 2001 and the 24-year gap between her first and most recent victory is the longest in history.
Mairead joins Mary Murray, Margaret Hennessy, Mary Quinn and Bernie Dunne as winners of the National Ladies Intermediate Strokeplay championship and the equivalent graded championship at Over-55 level.
2018 All Ireland Ladies Matchplay Nett Cup winner Elaine Quinn became the third member of Lakeside to take second place in the National Ladies Intermediate Strokeplay championship, matching Mary Quinn and Margaret Forde. Each of those silver medals has been achieved within the last ten years.
Elaine adds a second placing in the National Ladies Intermediate Strokeplay championship to her junior runners-up performance at Collins in 2018.
Elaine is the fourth player in history (and the first since Wendy Leech in 1997 and 2000) to be runner-up in both championships. The other players to achieve this were Melinda Seery and Liz Cronin.
Catherine Smith finished third in the National Intermediate Strokeplay championship over her home course – that’s the seventh time in history (and the fourth time in eleven stagings) for that distinction.
Charlotte Blake is the first Tralee player and the first from Co. Kerry to win the National Junior ladies Strokeplay championship, trumping Lisa O’Connor who claimed second place at Ring Commons ten years ago.
Charlotte is the first player from Co. Kerry to win any grade of the National Ladies Strokeplay championship since Margaret Looney of Deerpark was crowned intermediate champion at Irish Ropes (now Ryston) in 1998.
Bronagh Crilly continues Cloghogue’s recent run of successes in ladies championships, narrowly failing to match Ashlene McKevitt’s victory at Stackallen twelve months ago.
Bronagh did ensure a second successive silver medal for the Newry club after Karen McVerry’s runner-up performance at Stackallen.
It’s the fourth time in history that the same club has provided the runner-up in successive years.
Roz Burgess claimed Glenville’s fourth bronze medal in the National Ladies Junior Strokeplay championship. Catherine Ankers was third twice and Dora Kavanagh once.
As McDonagh hosted the championships for the second time, Chrissie Sheedy’s 153, Mairead O’Toole’s 170 and Charlotte Blake’s 180 are the respective grade low scoring aggregates for National Ladies Strokeplay championships held at McDonagh.
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