Golf Ireland finalise 2025 programme with Cork Golf Club centre stage
Cork General Manager Peter Golf Loughnane Club
Golf Ireland launched the 2025 Championships programme on Wednesday, with Cork Golf Club set to take centre stage for a series of key events.
Cork will host the Flogas Irish Boys’ Amateur Open Championship and Boys’ and Girls’ Home Internationals in 2025, in addition to the Munster Strokeplay.
General Manager Peter Loughnane feel it's a huge opportunity for more stars to be born on Leeside.
“Shane Lowry won the last time we hosted the Irish Close, Graeme McDowell won the last time we hosted the Irish Youths, so we are hoping for a winner of similar pedigree from the Flogas Irish Boys’ in April.
“Our club member John Carroll is also the captain of the Irish U18 squad in 2025 so it’s great validation of the support that the club has given Golf Ireland over the years that we have our captain on site while we are hosting this event.
“The Munster stroke play it is the foremost stroke play event in Munster. Last year Paul Coughlan won it and he went on to have a great year and made the Irish Mid-Am team at the end of the season. Max Kennedy played in it and made his Challenge Tour card last week.
“The biggest accolade for us is to be trusted with the Home Internationals for boys and girls. We try very hard to encourage junior golf in the club for boys and girls.
“The economic impact shouldn’t be overlooked, the business community in Cork and the tourism community of Cork have been very supportive.”
Killarney Golf Club will once again be the venue for the European Men's Amateur Championship, with the Killeen Course the stage on which Europe’s best 16 national teams will compete in July.
May will, as usual, be a busy month of national Open Championships, with Seapoint the venue for the Flogas Irish Men’s Amateur Open Championship (8-11 May), Corrstown staging the Flogas Irish Girls’ Amateur Open Championship (16-18 May) and Naas staging the Irish Senior Men’s Amateur Open Championship (21-23 May).
The Flogas Irish Women’s Amateur Open Championship will take place in Headfort in June, while the AIG Irish Men’s Amateur Close Championship will return to Westport exactly 20 years after Rory McIlroy famously clinched the title at the same venue.
The domestic Seniors Championship suite will see the combined Irish Senior Men’s and Women’s Close at Nenagh (12-15 August) and the Irish Senior & Veteran’s Men’s Close and Senior Women’s Open at Kinsale (2-4 July). The historic West of Ireland, South of Ireland and East of Ireland Championships will continue in their familiar vein in 2025, hosted by County Sligo, Lahinch and County Louth respectively.
However, with Royal Portrush playing host to The Open, Portstewart’s revamped Strand Course will be the stage for the North of Ireland championship in September 2025 before it plays host to the 2026 Flogas Irish Men’s Amateur Open Championship.
