{"id":479989,"date":"2026-06-02T23:27:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479989\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:27:39","slug":"st-brendans-historic-four-in-a-row-all-ireland-pitch-and-putt-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479989\/","title":{"rendered":"St Brendan\u2019s historic four-in-a-row All-Ireland pitch and putt title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/st-brendans-pitch-and-putt-150-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67971\"\/>St Brendan&#8217;s Four in a row All Ireland Secondary School Senior Pitch and Putt winners Brian McCarthy, Ronan Bennett and Nathan Cronin, College Principal Sean Coffey and their team manager Jason Arthur.  Photo by Michelle Cooper Galvin<\/p>\n<p>St Brendan&#8217;s\u00a0Four\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0row\u00a0All Ireland Secondary School Senior Pitch\u00a0and Putt winners Brian McCarthy, Ronan Bennett\u00a0and Nathan Cronin, College Principal Sean Coffey\u00a0and their team manager Jason\u00a0Arthur.\u00a0 Photo by Michelle Cooper Galvin<\/p>\n<p>St Brendan\u2019s historic\u00a0four-in-a-row\u00a0All-Ireland pitch\u00a0and putt title<\/p>\n<p>St Brendan\u2019s College made history by becoming the first school to win\u00a0four\u00a0All Ireland Schools\u2019 Pitch\u00a0and Putt tournaments\u00a0in\u00a0a\u00a0row.<\/p>\n<p>The three-stroke winning margin\u00a0is the\u00a0fourth lowest\u00a0in\u00a0the tournament\u2019s history,\u00a0and the lowest since the \u2018Sem\u2019 triumphed by\u00a0a\u00a0single shot\u00a0at Hillview three years\u00a0ago. The team&#8217;s score spread of 18 strokes is the highest by\u00a0any winning side\u00a0in\u00a0the history of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>This victory marks\u00a0a\u00a0seventh podium finish\u00a0in\u00a0eight stagings for St Brendan\u2019s,\u00a0an\u00a0all-time record. The school stands\u00a0as the most consistent\u00a0in\u00a0the event&#8217;s history with\u00a0four\u00a0wins, two seconds,\u00a0and two thirds. This puts them\u00a0four\u00a0podium finishes clear of Davis College Mallow, Col\u00e1iste\u00a0an Chraoibh\u00edn\u00a0Fermoy,\u00a0and St Francis College Rochestown.<\/p>\n<p>St Francis College, Rochestown took third place, becoming the fifth winning school\u00a0inhistory to\u00a0also claim\u00a0a\u00a0third-place finish,\u00a0a\u00a0feat St Brendan&#8217;s has\u00a0achieved twice. Rochestown has now filled\u00a0all three podium positions\u00a0at the event,\u00a0adding this third place to their 2018 win\u00a0and runners-up performances\u00a0in\u00a02019\u00a0and 2023. St Brendan\u2019s\u00a0and Col\u00e1iste\u00a0an Chraobh\u00edn, Fermoy\u00a0are the only other schools to boast\u00a0at least one win, one second,\u00a0and one third.<\/p>\n<p>Individually, Brian McCarthy\u00a0and Nathan Cronin\u00a0now hold two winners&#8217; medals, matching the tally of fellow St Brendan\u2019s players Cillian Courtney, Fintan Martin,\u00a0and Robert Harnett. McCarthy\u00a0also became the first player to break 100\u00a0at the event since Cian O\u2019Callaghan\u00a0accomplished the feat three years\u00a0ago\u00a0at Hillview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Brendan&#8217;s Four in a row All Ireland Secondary School Senior Pitch and Putt winners Brian McCarthy, Ronan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-479989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}