The Ladies of Craddockstown Golf Club won the All-Ireland Junior Cup at Headfort Golf Club in October 2006. They beat Southern District Champions Killarney Golf Club in the All-Ireland Semi-Final by 3 and halve matches to 1 and halve matches. They met Western Champions Galway Golf Club in the final. First on he tee was Stella Lunny against Geraldine Neville, who secured the first point for the Eastern Champions with a one-hole win. She was followed by Mary Kearney who beat Sheelagh Kearney by 5 and 3. Margaret Swan halved her match with Bryde Glynn. The penultimate match saw Erika Roach have a very comfortable 7 and 3 win over Rita Grealish. Anne Bolster brought up the rear with a 4 and 3 win over Pat Lillis.
The Ladies of Craddockstown Golf Club won the All-Ireland Intermediate Cup at Headfort Golf Club in October 2006. They beat Southern District Champions Ballybunion Golf Club in the All-Ireland Semi-Final by 4 matches to 1 match.
They met Midland Champions Moate in the All-Ireland Final. First on the tee was Eileen Jones who beat Eileen White by 2 and 1. She was followed by Brigid Kennedy who lost to Mary Rohan by 3 and 2. Next up was Eileen O’Donnell who lost to Beth Dunne by 2-holes. Francis Corrigan restored parity when she beat Pearse Corbett by a single-hole. Everything hinged on the final match of Rosemary O’Connor against Margaret Galvin, Margaret delivered the vital point with a one-hole win over the lady from the Midlands.
Craddockstown got to the Grand Final of the Mitsubishi-Irish Independent National Club Challenge in the Algarve in October 2001. The team was Pat Donegan (6), Kevin O'Reilly (9), Robbie Cullen (11) and Bernard McDonnell (19).
Craddockstown were County Champions in the J. B. Carr Diamond Trophy in 1997, when the team was, N. Russell, J. May, B. Murphy, V. Foran, M. Walsh, P. Hart, P. Rogers, R. Lawlor, F. O'Reilly, P. Power and they were managed by M. Hegarty.
Eileen and Joe O'Donnell booked their place in the National Finals of the Spar-Irish Independent Mixed Pairs challenge at City West in June 2001. Eileen playing off 21 and Liam playing off 9 returned a score of 56 points which gave them the runner-up position and set them on their way to National Finals at Adare Manor Golf & Country Club in August.
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