Irish Women's Amateur Close Championship

The Irish Women's Amateur Close Championship is the women's national amateur match play golf championship of Ireland. It was first played in 1894 and is currently organised by Golf Ireland.

Irish Women's Amateur Close Championship

Tournament information
Location	Ireland
Established	1894
Organised by	Golf Ireland
Format	Match play
Current champion
Canice Screene

The Irish Women's Amateur Close Championship is contested through two phases. It begins with a 36 hole stroke play competition, with the leading 32 competitors progressing to the knock-out match play competition.^[1]

It is a close event, entry being restricted to women born on the island of Ireland, or with one parent or grandparent born on the island of Ireland, or resident on the island of Ireland for five years. In addition, players must not have played for another country's international team or in another country's close championship, except at the under-18 or younger level.^[1]

Winners

Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Venue	Ref
2024	Canice Screene	2 & 1	Emma O'Driscoll	Roscommon
2023	Sara Byrne	1 up	Beth Coulter	Connemara
2022	Beth Coulter	6 & 5	Sara Byrne	Grange
2021	Anna Foster	2 & 1	Beth Coulter	Ballybunion	[2]
2020	Not held
2019	Annabel Wilson	19 holes	Paula Grant	Woodbrook	[3]
2018	Sara Byrne	2 & 1	Louise Coffey	Enniscrone	[4]
2017	Paula Grant	3 & 1	Ciara Casey	Mullingar	[5]
2016	Olivia Mehaffey	1 up	Louise Coffey	Lahinch	[6]
2015	Sarah Helly	6 & 5	Olivia Mehaffey	Rosapenna	[7]
2014	Mary Doyle	2 & 1	Jessica Carty	Enniscrone	[8]
2013	Paula Grant	19 holes	Lisa Maguire	Ballybunion	[9]
2012	Leona Maguire	2 up	Stephanie Meadow	County Louth	[10]
2011	Danielle McVeigh	19 holes	Karen Delaney	Carlow	[11]
2010	Mary Dowling	1 up	Lisa Maguire	Portstewart	[12]
2009	Lisa Maguire	5 & 4	Mary Dowling	Fota Island	[13]
2008	Leona Maguire	3 & 2	Lisa Maguire	Westport	[14]
2007	Karen Delaney	3 & 2	Marian Riordan	Lahinch	[15]
2006	Tricia Mangan	2 & 1	Martina Gillen	The European Club
2005	Tricia Mangan	3 & 2	Catherine Tucker	Portsalon	[16]
2004	Deirdre Smith	20 holes	Tara Delaney	The Island	[17]
2003	Martina Gillen	2 up	Maria Dunne	Donegal	[18]
2002	Rebecca Coakley	4 & 3	Alison Coffey	Cork
2001	Alison Coffey	4 & 3	Claire Coughlan	The European Club
2000	Alison Coffey	3 & 1	Suzanne O'Brien	County Louth
1999	Claire Coughlan	4 & 3	Eileen Rose Power	Carlow
1998	Lillian Behan	19 holes	Oonagh Purfield	Clandeboye
1997	Suzanne Fanagan	4 & 3	Eileen Rose Power	Enniscrone
1996	Barbara Hackett	3 & 2	Lillian Behan	Tramore
1995	Eileen Rose Power	1 up	Sheena O'Brien Kenney	Cork
1994	Laura Webb	20 holes	Hazel Kavanagh	County Sligo
1993	Eavan Higgins	1 up	Aideen Rogers	Royal Belfast
1992	Eileen Rose Power	1 up	Claire Hourihane	County Louth
1991	Claire Hourihane	2 up	Eileen Rose McDaid	Ballybunion
1990	Eileen Rose McDaid	2 & 1	Lesley Callen	The Island
1989	Mary McKenna	19 holes	Carol Wickham	Westport
1988	Laura Bolton	2 & 1	Eavan Higgins	Tramore
1987	Claire Hourihane	5 & 4	Catherine Hickey	Lahinch
1986	Therese O'Reilly	4 & 3	Eavan Higgins	Castlerock
1985	Claire Hourihane	4 & 3	Mary McKenna	Waterville
1984	Claire Hourihane	19 holes	Maureen Madill	County Sligo
1983	Claire Hourihane	6 & 4	Valerie Hassett	Cork
1982	Mary McKenna	2 & 1	Maureen Madill	Royal Portrush
1981	Mary McKenna	1 up	Mary Kenny	Laytown & Bettystown
1980	Claire Nesbitt	19 holes	Claire Hourihane	Lahinch
1979	Mary McKenna	6 & 5	Claire Nesbitt	Donegal
1978	Mary Gorry	4 & 3	Ita Butler	Grange	[19]
1977	Mary McKenna	2 up	Rhona Hegarty	Ballybunion
1976	Claire Nesbitt	20 holes	Mary McKenna	County Sligo
1975	Mary Gorry	1 up	Elaine Bradshaw	Tramore
1974	Mary McKenna	3 & 2	Vivienne Singleton	Lahinch
1973	Maisie Mooney	3 & 1	Mary McKenna	Bundoran
1972	Mary McKenna	5 & 4	Ita Butler	Killarney	[20]
1971	Elaine Bradshaw	3 & 1	Maisie Mooney	County Louth
1970	Philomena Garvey	2 & 1	Moira Earner	Royal Portrush	[21]
1969	Mary McKenna	3 & 2	Catherine Hickey	Ballybunion
1968	Elaine Bradshaw	4 & 3	Mary McKenna	Lahinch	[22]
1967	Gwen Brandom	3 & 2	Pat O'Sullivan	Castlerock
1966	Elaine Bradshaw	3 & 2	Pat O'Sullivan	Rosslare
1965	Elizabeth Purcell	3 & 2	Pat O'Sullivan	Mullingar
1964	Zelie Fallon	37 holes	Pat O'Sullivan	Royal Portrush
1963	Philomena Garvey	9 & 7	Elizabeth Barnett	Killarney
1962	Philomena Garvey	7 & 6	Moira Earner	County Louth
1961	Kitty MacCann	5 & 3	Ann Sweeney	Royal County Down	[23]
1960	Philomena Garvey	5 & 4	Kitty MacCann	Cork	[24]
1959	Philomena Garvey	12 & 10	Heather Colhoun	Lahinch	[25]
1958	Philomena Garvey	7 & 6	Zelie Fallon	Carlow	[26]
1957	Philomena Garvey	3 & 2	Kitty MacCann	Royal Portrush	[27]
1956	Pat O'Sullivan	13 & 12	Girlie Hegarty	Killarney	[28]
1955	Philomena Garvey	10 & 9	Audrey O'Donohoe	County Sligo	[29]
1954	Philomena Garvey	13 & 12	Dorothy Glendinning	Portmarnock	[30]
1953	Philomena Garvey	8 & 7	Girlie Hegarty	Rosslare
1952	Dorothy Forster	3 & 2	Kitty MacCann	Royal County Down	[31]
1951	Philomena Garvey	12 & 10	Dorothy Forster	Ballybunion	[32]
1950	Philomena Garvey	6 & 4	Jean Marks	County Sligo	[33]
1949	Kitty Smye	9 & 7	Dorothy Beck	County Louth	[34]
1948	Philomena Garvey	9 & 7	Clarrie Reddan	Rosslare	[35]
1947	Philomena Garvey	5 & 4	Kitty Smye	Royal Portrush	[36]
1946	Philomena Garvey	39 holes	Clarrie Reddan	Lahinch	[37]
1940–1945: Not played due to World War II
1939	Chrystabell MacGeagh	1 up	Ena Gildea	Bundoran
1938	Dorothy Beck	5 & 4	Bridget Jackson	Portmarnock	[38]
1937	Dorothy Glendinning	37 holes	Ida Kidd	Royal Portrush	[39]
1936	Clarrie Tiernan	7 & 6	Sybil Moore	Ballybunion
1935	Daisy Ferguson	2 & 1	Betty Ellis	Rosapenna	[40]
1934	Pat Sherlock	3 & 2	Pat Walker	Portmarnock	[41]
1933	Eithne Pentony	3 & 2	Fanny Blake	Royal County Down	[42]
1932	Betty Latchford	7 & 5	Daisy Ferguson	Ballybunion	[43]
1931	Eithne Pentony	3 & 2	Nancy Todd	County Sligo	[44]
1930	Pat Walker	2 & 1	Patsy Jameson	Portmarnock
1929	Mrs Harry Hall	1 up	Iris Taylor	Rosapenna
1928	Agnes Dwyer	3 & 2	Sybil Clarke	Cork
1927	Molly McLoughlin	2 up	Fanny Blake	Royal Dublin
1926	Patsy Jameson	5 & 3	C.H. Murland	Royal County Down
1925	Janet Jackson	2 & 1	Sheelagh Jameson	Lahinch	[45]
1924	Sheila Thornton	4 & 3	Genevieve Hewitt	Castlerock
1923	Janet Jackson	5 & 4	Mrs Babington	Portmarnock
1922	Stella Gotto	2 up	Maisie Hirsch	Royal County Down
1921	Wanda Stuart-French	4 & 3	May Fitzgibbon	Hermitage	[46]
1920	Janet Jackson	5 & 4	Florence Cramsie	Royal Portrush	[47]
1919	Janet Jackson	5 & 4	Marion Alexander	Portmarnock	[48]
1915–1918: Not played due to World War I
1914	Janet Jackson	3 & 2	Rose Meldon	Castlerock	[49]
1913	Janet Jackson	4 & 3	Mabel Harrison	Lahinch	[50]
1912	Mabel Harrison	5 & 3	Florence Cramsie	Portsalon	[51]
1911	Mabel Harrison	6 & 4	Florence Walker-Leigh	Malahide	[52]
1910	Mabel Harrison	5 & 4	Jessie Magill	Royal County Down	[53]
1909	Amy Ormsby	4 & 2	Violet Hezlet	Lahinch	[54]
1908	May Hezlet	5 & 4	Florence Hezlet	Royal Portrush	[55]
1907	Florence Walker-Leigh	4 & 3	May Fitzgibbon	Royal Dublin	[56]
1906	May Hezlet	2 & 1	Florence Hezlet	Royal County Down	[57]
1905	May Hezlet	2 & 1	Florence Hezlet	Portsalon	[58]
1904	May Hezlet	4 & 2	Florence Walker-Leigh	Lahinch
1903	Rhona Adair	7 & 5	Violet Hezlet	Royal Portrush	[59]
1902	Rhona Adair	9 & 7	Maud Stuart	Royal County Down	[60]
1901	Rhona Adair	4 & 2	Florence Walker-Leigh	Portmarnock	[61]
1900	Rhona Adair	9 & 7	Violet Hezlet	Portrush	[62]
1899	May Hezlet	5 & 4	Rhona Adair	Newcastle	[63]
1898	Jessie Magill	1 up	May Hezlet	Malone	[64]
1897	Nellie Graham	4 & 3	Jessie Magill	Dollymount
1896	Nellie Graham	4 & 3	Edith Brownrigg	Newcastle	[65]
1895	Helen Cox	3 & 2	Miss MacLaine	Royal Portrush
1894	Clara Mulligan	3 & 2	Nellie Graham	Carnalea

Source:^[66]