Qualifying scores
Championship draw
McCarthy was the one man to interrupt par within the 18-hole pre-qualifier, firing a one-under 70 to win by a shot from Massereene’s former Irish Novice Shut champion Tiarnan McLarnon and Connemara’s Conor Stapleton.
Strandhill’s Tommy McGowan, who made an epic run to the semi-finals in 2008 and famously took Shane Lowry to the sixteenth within the quarter-finals in 2009, shot 72 out of Edmondstown to make it alongside clubmate Lorcan O’Connor.
James Hewitt, Jonny Corridor, Luke Flynn, Dylan O’Keeffe and David Brady shot 73 as Derek Basquill, David Kelleher, Luke Mitchell and Luke Lynch made it with 74s.
Eleven gamers tied with five-over 76s however with one going dwelling, ten performed off over the past two spots.
Ultimately, Belvoir Park’s Conal Keenan took the primary spot with a birdie 4 on the twenty first earlier than Curran parred the troublesome par-three fourth with officers utilizing torches to mild the inexperienced.