Cillian Corcoran is the first player from Fermoy and the fourth different Cork representative (Glenn Towler was champion twice) to win the National Boys’ Matchplay championship.
Cillian is the second player in history (after Deerpark’s Brian McCarthy) to win the National Boys’ Matchplay championship and the Munster Boys’ Strokeplay championship in the same year. Glenn Towler also won both but in different years.
Cillian is the fourth player in history (after Glenn Towler, Brian McCarthy and Aidan Spence-Murphy) to win the National Boys’ Matchplay championship having also been a defeated semi-finalist.
Conor Ronan is the first player ever to be the runner-up of the National Boys’ Matchplay and the National Boys’ Strokeplay championships in the same year.
Conor Ronan joins Gowran pair Harry Concannon and Jack McShane along with Mark Cadden (Oldcastle) as National Juvenile Strokeplay Under-13 winners to also be a National Boys’ Matchplay championship runner-up.
Cillian Corcoran and Conor Ronan featured in the second National Boys’ Matchplay championship final to be contested by two players representing the same club.
The same club supplied the two finalists for the second successive year. It was Gowran last year.
Conor Ronan is the first member of Fermoy to be a defeated National Boys’ Matchplay championship finalist.
Cillian Corcoran and Conor Ronan also contested the Munster Matchplay final, which was won by Conor.
Conor is the second Munster Matchplay champion (after Shea Fennell) to be National Boys’ Matchplay runner-up in the same year.
Harry Concannon is the third beaten National Boys’ Matchplay championship finalist (after Shea Fennell and Jack McShane) to at least reach the semi-final the following year.
Enda Hayden is the first player from Portmarnock and the first representing any Dublin club to reach the National Boys’ Matchplay championship semi-finals.
Sarah Ryan equals her own record as the only player to retain the National Girls Matchplay championship title and she is the first player ever to win the championship on three occasions. Nobody else has won it more than once.
Sarah Ryan becomes the second player (after Seapoint’s Sarah Cooney) to claim the National Girls Strokeplay championship and National Girls Matchplay championship titles in the same year.
With four wins (three Matchplay and one Strokeplay), Sarah Ryan now ties Sarah Cooney (three Strokeplay and one Matchplay) as the most successful Juvenile girl of all time at national level.
Pippa Cuffe joins Tralee’s Sophie Moynihan as a two-time National Girls Matchplay championship runner-up.
Pippa is the third player ever (after Megan Ahern and Sophie Moynihan) to be National Girls Strokeplay runner-up and National Girls Matchplay runner-up in the same year.
Pippa Cuffe ensured a Kilbeggan presence in the last four of the National Girls Matchplay championship for the sixth time in seven seasons (Pippa’s sister Gemma played in four semi-finals, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024).
Shona Griffin delivered a Kerry representation in the National Girls Matchplay championship last four for the fifth time. Tralee’s Ella Moynihan and Sophie Moynihan contested two semi-finals each.
Sophia Audah is the second player from Portmarnock (after Gemma Hayden twelve months ago) and the second from Dublin to play in a National Girls Matchplay championship semi-final.
Leon Hogan is the first player from Fermoy and the third from Co. Cork (after Glenn Towler and Aaron Roche) to win the National Boys’ Matchplay championship Plate.
Leon Hogan is the second player (after Aaron Roche) to collect a bronze medal in the National Boys Strokeplay championship and also win the National Boys’ Matchplay championship Plate. Leon is the first individual to achieve this in a single year.
Daniel McCabe is the second player from Collinstown (after Sean Condron) and the second from Westmeath to be National Boys’ Matchplay championship Plate runner-up.
Daniel is the third player from Collinstown (after Jack Buckley and Sean Condron) to contest a National Boys’ Matchplay championship Plate final.
Daniel ensured a Co. Westmeath presence in the National Boys’ Matchplay championship Plate final for the fourth year in a row.
Lucas Uchityl is the sixth Deerpark member to be a defeated National Boys Matchplay championship Plate semi-finalist.
Cian Norris is the second member of Glenville (after Luke Kilpatrick) to reach a National Boys Matchplay championship Plate semi-final.
For the second time ever, the National Boys Matchplay champion and National Boys Matchplay championship Plate winner represented the same club, Fermoy emulating Deerpark 2023.
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