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Update after Douglas 2022
The 2022 National Gents’ Matchplay championship final was the 15th between two players representing Cork clubs.
Barry Morrissey is the first player representing a Cork club to win the National Gents Matchplay at Douglas.
The 36-year gap between Barry Morrissey’s runner-up performance in the Strokeplay and first victory in the National Gents’ Matchplay is the longest in history. The previous longest was six years – John Walsh (1996-2002), Derry McCarthy (1998-2004), John Ross Crangle (2011-2017).
The 21-year gap between John Cahill’s first win in the National Strokeplay and a first runner-up performance in the Matchplay is the longest in history. The previous longest was seven years – Mick Forrest (1976-1983).
John Walsh has contested nine National Matchplay semi-finals winning six.
John Cahill and John Walsh met for the second time in a National Matchplay semi-final. The score is now 1-1 after John Walsh’s victory at Lakeside in 2015.
Barry Morrissey was previously a National Matchplay semi-finalist in 1988 (when he lost to the late David Hayden) and in 1993 (when he went down to Johnny Campbell Junior).
The 34 year gap between Barry’s first and most recent semi-final appearance is another new record. The previous longest gap was 25 years (Ray Murphy, 1996-2021).
John Cahill is the 20th different player from Cork to be runner-up in the National Gents’ Matchplay championship.
Barry Morrissey and John Cahill both contested their first National Matchplay final, the second time in three years that the decider has featured final debutants.
William Buckley Junior reached the National Gents’ Matchplay semi-finals for the second time. His record is W0, L2.
Munster domination of the National Gents’ Matchpay championship continued. Barry Morrissey made it five wins in a row for the southern province.
18 of the last 20 champions have represented Munster clubs. Only John Ross Crangle and Darren O’Reilly have bucked that trend.
By contrast, 17 of the last 20 stagings of the National Ladies Matchplay championship have seen wins by players representing Leinster clubs.
Liz Quinn won the National Ladies Matchplay championship for the first time. Liz becomes the 17th player in history to win both the National Ladies Matchplay championship and National Ladies Strokeplay championship.
Liz Quinn is the second player from Co. Westmeath to become National Ladies Matchplay champion (and the first since Rose McCormack of Kibeggan at Waterford Crystal in 1996)
Liz Quinn and Sarah McGrath were first-time National Matchplay finalists. The last time that happened was in 2009 at Castletown – Tracey McGrath v. Siobhan Scannell.
It was Marian Courtney’s 12th National Ladies Matchplay semi-final. She holds a 50% record.
Sarah McGrath played her first National Matchplay final 18 years since she was National Girls’ Strokeplay champion.
Sarah is the fifth National Girls’ Strokeplay champion to finish runner-up in the National Ladies Matchplay championship
Sarah is the third different player from Fermoy to be runner-up in the National Ladies Matchplay championship. Eleanor Walsh was runner-up twice while Joan Coughlan reached the 1976 final.
The 2022 ladies final was the first-ever National Ladies Matchplay championship decider to be contested by players representing Westmeath and Cork clubs.
Mary Murray has played in two National Matchplay semi-finals. Her record is W1, L1. That’s a similar record to Liz Quinn, who reached the semi-finals for the second successive year
Three of the semi-finalists in the All Ireland Ladies Matchplay Nett Cup represented Munster clubs – exactly the same ratio as when the event was last played in Cork – at Rocklodge in 2019.
Suzanne Reilly is the second player player representing a Leinster club to win the All Ireland Ladies Matchplay Nett Cup.
Suzanne is the first Co. Meath player to win All Ireland Ladies Matchplay Nett Cup.
Suzanne Reilly qualified for the All Ireland Ladies Matchplay Nett Cup semi-finals for the second successive year.
Suzanne is the second player in history (after Elaine Quinn) to reach the All Ireland Ladies Matchplay Nett Cup semi-finals on two separate occasions.
Ann O’Herlihy is the second player representing a Cork club to be runner-up in the All Ireland Ladies Matchplay Nett Cup.
In reverse order, Mairead Manning and Sarah O’Neill have become the first players to reach the quarter-finals of both the National Ladies Matchplay championship and the All Ireland Ladies Matchplay Nett Cup.
2022 qualifiers John O’Leary (finalist) and Anthony Malone (quarter-finalist) both featured in the National Gents’ Matchplay championship on the last occasion it was played at Douglas (in 1985) – performance then in parentheses.
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