# 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.
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.
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.

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Score | Runner-up | Venue |
| 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 |
| 2020 | Not held | Not held | Not held | |
| 2019 | Annabel Wilson | 19 holes | Paula Grant | Woodbrook |
| 2018 | Sara Byrne | 2 & 1 | Louise Coffey | Enniscrone |
| 2017 | Paula Grant | 3 & 1 | Ciara Casey | Mullingar |
| 2016 | Olivia Mehaffey | 1 up | Louise Coffey | Lahinch |
| 2015 | Sarah Helly | 6 & 5 | Olivia Mehaffey | Rosapenna |
| 2014 | Mary Doyle | 2 & 1 | Jessica Carty | Enniscrone |
| 2013 | Paula Grant | 19 holes | Lisa Maguire | Ballybunion |
| 2012 | Leona Maguire | 2 up | Stephanie Meadow | County Louth |
| 2011 | Danielle McVeigh | 19 holes | Karen Delaney | Carlow |
| 2010 | Mary Dowling | 1 up | Lisa Maguire | Portstewart |
| 2009 | Lisa Maguire | 5 & 4 | Mary Dowling | Fota Island |
| 2008 | Leona Maguire | 3 & 2 | Lisa Maguire | Westport |
| 2007 | Karen Delaney | 3 & 2 | Marian Riordan | Lahinch |
| 2006 | Tricia Mangan | 2 & 1 | Martina Gillen | The European Club |
| 2005 | Tricia Mangan | 3 & 2 | Catherine Tucker | Portsalon |
| 2004 | Deirdre Smith | 20 holes | Tara Delaney | The Island |
| 2003 | Martina Gillen | 2 up | Maria Dunne | Donegal |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1971 | Elaine Bradshaw | 3 & 1 | Maisie Mooney | County Louth |
| 1970 | Philomena Garvey | 2 & 1 | Moira Earner | Royal Portrush |
| 1969 | Mary McKenna | 3 & 2 | Catherine Hickey | Ballybunion |
| 1968 | Elaine Bradshaw | 4 & 3 | Mary McKenna | Lahinch |
| 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 |
| 1960 | Philomena Garvey | 5 & 4 | Kitty MacCann | Cork |
| 1959 | Philomena Garvey | 12 & 10 | Heather Colhoun | Lahinch |
| 1958 | Philomena Garvey | 7 & 6 | Zelie Fallon | Carlow |
| 1957 | Philomena Garvey | 3 & 2 | Kitty MacCann | Royal Portrush |
| 1956 | Pat O'Sullivan | 13 & 12 | Girlie Hegarty | Killarney |
| 1955 | Philomena Garvey | 10 & 9 | Audrey O'Donohoe | County Sligo |
| 1954 | Philomena Garvey | 13 & 12 | Dorothy Glendinning | Portmarnock |
| 1953 | Philomena Garvey | 8 & 7 | Girlie Hegarty | Rosslare |
| 1952 | Dorothy Forster | 3 & 2 | Kitty MacCann | Royal County Down |
| 1951 | Philomena Garvey | 12 & 10 | Dorothy Forster | Ballybunion |
| 1950 | Philomena Garvey | 6 & 4 | Jean Marks | County Sligo |
| 1949 | Kitty Smye | 9 & 7 | Dorothy Beck | County Louth |
| 1948 | Philomena Garvey | 9 & 7 | Clarrie Reddan | Rosslare |
| 1947 | Philomena Garvey | 5 & 4 | Kitty Smye | Royal Portrush |
| 1946 | Philomena Garvey | 39 holes | Clarrie Reddan | Lahinch |
| 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 |
| 1937 | Dorothy Glendinning | 37 holes | Ida Kidd | Royal Portrush |
| 1936 | Clarrie Tiernan | 7 & 6 | Sybil Moore | Ballybunion |
| 1935 | Daisy Ferguson | 2 & 1 | Betty Ellis | Rosapenna |
| 1934 | Pat Sherlock | 3 & 2 | Pat Walker | Portmarnock |
| 1933 | Eithne Pentony | 3 & 2 | Fanny Blake | Royal County Down |
| 1932 | Betty Latchford | 7 & 5 | Daisy Ferguson | Ballybunion |
| 1931 | Eithne Pentony | 3 & 2 | Nancy Todd | County Sligo |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1920 | Janet Jackson | 5 & 4 | Florence Cramsie | Royal Portrush |
| 1919 | Janet Jackson | 5 & 4 | Marion Alexander | Portmarnock |
| 1915–1918: Not played due to World War I ||||||
| 1914 | Janet Jackson | 3 & 2 | Rose Meldon | Castlerock |
| 1913 | Janet Jackson | 4 & 3 | Mabel Harrison | Lahinch |
| 1912 | Mabel Harrison | 5 & 3 | Florence Cramsie | Portsalon |
| 1911 | Mabel Harrison | 6 & 4 | Florence Walker-Leigh | Malahide |
| 1910 | Mabel Harrison | 5 & 4 | Jessie Magill | Royal County Down |
| 1909 | Amy Ormsby | 4 & 2 | Violet Hezlet | Lahinch |
| 1908 | May Hezlet | 5 & 4 | Florence Hezlet | Royal Portrush |
| 1907 | Florence Walker-Leigh | 4 & 3 | May Fitzgibbon | Royal Dublin |
| 1906 | May Hezlet | 2 & 1 | Florence Hezlet | Royal County Down |
| 1905 | May Hezlet | 2 & 1 | Florence Hezlet | Portsalon |
| 1904 | May Hezlet | 4 & 2 | Florence Walker-Leigh | Lahinch |
| 1903 | Rhona Adair | 7 & 5 | Violet Hezlet | Royal Portrush |
| 1902 | Rhona Adair | 9 & 7 | Maud Stuart | Royal County Down |
| 1901 | Rhona Adair | 4 & 2 | Florence Walker-Leigh | Portmarnock |
| 1900 | Rhona Adair | 9 & 7 | Violet Hezlet | Portrush |
| 1899 | May Hezlet | 5 & 4 | Rhona Adair | Newcastle |
| 1898 | Jessie Magill | 1 up | May Hezlet | Malone |
| 1897 | Nellie Graham | 4 & 3 | Jessie Magill | Dollymount |
| 1896 | Nellie Graham | 4 & 3 | Edith Brownrigg | Newcastle |
| 1895 | Helen Cox | 3 & 2 | Miss MacLaine | Royal Portrush |
| 1894 | Clara Mulligan | 3 & 2 | Nellie Graham | Carnalea |
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