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National U16 Strokeplay and Inter County 2024 stats
by John Manning
Molly O’Toole ensured an eighth National Girls’ Strokeplay championship win for Co. Kildare players.
Molly is the fifth different player from Co. Kildare to claim the title (Bernadette Coffey won three and Marian Byrne two).
Molly is the third Athgarvan member (after Tracey Noone and Bernadette Coffey) to hold the title. (Bernadette Coffey was an Athgarvan member in 1996).
Molly O’Toole continues the recent Leinster domination of the National Girls’ Strokeplay championship – Molly’s win is the tenth in the last ten stagings of the championship by a representative of the eastern province.
Molly’s aggregate of 112 is the best winning total since Úna Brosnan set the all-time championship record at Pfizer (now Raffeen Creek) in 2013.
Molly O’Toole is the first player since Kilbeggan’s Laura Coffey in 2010 to win the National Juvenile Strokeplay championship and be Leinster Under 16 Strokeplay runner-up in the same year.
After her successive bronze medal performances at Deerpark and Seapoint, Sarah Ryan finished on the podium for the third year in a row. She is the eighth player in history to achieve that feat (including Bernadette Coffey who amassed four consecutive podium positions between 1993 and 1996)
Sarah is the third player representing a Tipperary club (after Martha O’Brien and Sive Shelley) to finish second in the National Girls’ Strokeplay championship.
Sarah is the first member of Tipperary Hills to finish second in the National Girls’ Strokeplay championship.
Sarah replicates Megan Ahern’s 2023 achievement of winning the Munster Matchplay championship and being second in the National Strokeplay championship in a single year.
Pippa Cuffe is the second player in history (after Lucan’s Maebh Ahern) to finish third in the National Girls Strokeplay championship and be Leinster Matchplay runner-up in the same year.
Pippa matches the feat of fellow Kilbeggan members Áine Egan, Aoife Carton and Mary Coffey (who achieved it twice) by clinching a bronze medal in the National Girls’ Strokeplay championship.
Ben Kelliher is the third player from Deerpark and the sixth from Co. Kerry to win the National Boys’ Strokeplay championship.
Ben won the eleventh play-off in the event’s history (and the first since 2013).
Ben is the second Deerpark player (after Conor McCarthy in 2013) to win via the play-off route.
It was the first four-way play-off in the history of the championship.
Ben Kelliher and Brian McCarthy ensured Deerpark filled first and second places. That’s (same club 1st and 2nd) happened just once before when Pfizer clubmates, Chris O’Sulivan and Frank Bruen, were champion and runner-up respectively, at Lakeside in 2008, which also resulted by a play-off.
Brian McCarthy joins Kieran Dunscombe and Patrick McBride as Boys’ Strokeplay championship runners-up in successive years.
Having been third two years ago and 10-13 champion in 2021, Brian has accumulated four podium placings in four years (and five in six years). That trumps even Evan Carry (three-in-a-row from 2016) and four in five years between 2014 and 2018.
Brian McCarthy makes it eight silver medals for the Deerpark club in the National Boys’ Strokeplay championship.
Brian McCarthy extends his record of being the only player in history to win the National Boys’ Matchplay and be runner-up in the National Boys’ Strokeplay championship.
Brian McCarthy brings to five times the Boys’ 10-13 award winner has subsequently taken second place in the National Boys’ Strokeplay championship. Jack Mullins, Robbie Harnett and Edward Walsh are the others.
It’s a third National Boys’ Strokeplay championship podium appearance in a row for 2023 champion Jack McShane, the 2022 10-13 winner.
Jack McShane joins Dylan Hudson as a winner of the Leinster Matchplay championship to also claim third in the National Boys’ Strokeplay championship.
Jack is the first player from Gowran to finish third in the National Boys’ Strokeplay championship.
Jack is the first Kilkenny player to finish third in the National Boys’ Strokeplay championship (since the bronze medal was introduced in 1989).
Harry Concannon ensured that the Leinster 10-13 champion also won the National 10-13 championship for the third successive year.
Harry is the first 10-13 champion to also contest a play-off for the main championship in the same year.
Harry Concannon is the fourth player after Evan Carry, Jack McShane and Harry Tiernan to win the Leinster 10-13 and national 10-13 awards in the same season.
Harry Concannon emulates Jack McShane as a Gowran winner of the National 10-13 championship.
Harry Concannon joins Evan Carry as a Leinster Matchplay runner-up to also be National 10-13 champion. Harry is the first to achieve that in a single year.
102 has now been the Boys’ Strokeplay championship winning score on three occasions. It forced a play-off for the first time ever in 2024.
Kerry move on to nine Tommy Murphy Cup wins, which leaves the Kingdom tied in second place alongside Dublin on the all-time Roll of Honour.
Kerry’s score of 304 is the lowest winning aggregate in the history of the National Juvenile Inter-County championship.
Kilkenny finished second in the National Juvenile Inter-County championship for the second time.
Successive runners-up spots were achieved for the tenth time. Cork (1979/80, 1988/89, 1989/90, 1992/93), Meath (1980/81 and 1985/86), Tipperary (2002/03), Dublin (1983/84) and Kerry (2008/09 and 2016/17) are the others.
Carlow finished third in the National Juvenile Inter-County championship for the first time (since third place was officially introduced in 1992).
Ben Kelliher is the 14th National Boys’ Strokeplay champion to help his county to an Inter-County win in the same year. Mark Somers, Alan Moore, Kieran Kearney, Michael O’Connell, Brian Webster, Damien Rafferty, Cathal Foley, Brian Allen, John O’Rourke, Chris O’Sullivan, Brian Maloney, A Jay Barrett and Charlie Morrissey are the others.
Brian McCarthy and A Jay Barrett earned their third National Juvenile Inter-County championship gold medals, emulating Cork’s Keith Crowley. Brian and A Jay won three in successive years while Keith was successful in 1997, 1998 and 2000.
Kerry completed a Juvenile Inter-County five in a row, equalling the Cork 1996-2000 sides.
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