Catriona Matthew

Catriona Lambert was born in Edinburgh, and grew up in North Berwick. She learned to play golf on the Children's Course and North Berwick West Links in the town. She had a successful junior and amateur career, becoming Scottish Girls champion in 1986 and Scottish Under-21 Stroke Play champion in 1988 and 1989. She captured the Scottish Amateur title in 1991, 1993 and 1994, and the British Amateur title in 1993.

{{cite web

| title = Catriona Matthew Full Career Biography

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}} She is also a two-time winner of the St Rule Trophy played at St Andrews.

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|title=St Rule Trophy

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}} She was a member of the 1990,

{{cite web

| title = Previous Curtis Cup Matches 1932–2002

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| access-date = 31 March 2007}} She graduated from the University of Stirling in 1992 having studied accountancy, this being one of a few British universities offering golf scholarships.

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Matthew qualified for the LPGA Tour by tying for fifth at the 1994 LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament to earn exempt status for the 1995 season.

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}} She soon established herself on the Tour, and her best seasons were 2001 and 2005, when she finished tenth on the money list.

Matthew also qualified for the Ladies European Tour in 1995 and plays several events on that tour each season. She won her maiden professional tournament at the Holden Women's Australian Open in 1996. She won the 1998 McDonald's WPGA Championship on the Ladies European Tour. She was a member of the 1998 Solheim Cup Team

{{cite web

|title=Keeping the hardware

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}} and first reserve for the 2000 matches held in her native Scotland. When Helen Alfredsson hurt her wrist she was called into the team but Alfredsson recovered and Matthew did not play.

{{cite news

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| date = 17 September 2002

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| access-date = 31 March 2007}} She was somewhat controversially left out of the 2002 Solheim Cup team

{{cite web

| title = Reid chooses wild cards amid controversy

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| date = 25 August 2002

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| title = Biting back

| publisher = Scottish Golf

| date = 16 October 2002

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| archive-date = 5 January 2013

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}} but was a captain's pick for the 2003 team,

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| title = European Team announced

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| date = 25 August 2003

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{{cite web

| title = Solheim Cup player profiles

| publisher = LET

| date = 30 August 2003

| url = http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com/content/let_content_news.php?Id=4251

| access-date = 31 March 2007}} gaining the Cup winning point.

{{cite web

| title = Five in-progress matches conceded

| publisher = ESPN

| date = 14 September 2003

| url = https://www.espn.com/golf/news/story?id=1615736

| access-date = 3 February 2009}} She was a captain's pick for the 2005 team as well.

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|title=The 2005 European Solheim Cup team announced

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|date=28 August 2005

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}} She qualified outright for the 2007, 2009 and 2011 Solheim Cup teams.

She teamed with Janice Moodie to represent Scotland at the 2005

{{cite web

| title = Moodie and Matthew flying the flag at World Cup

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| date = 11 February 2005

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| access-date = 31 March 2007}} and 2006 Women's World Cup of Golf.

{{cite web

| title = Stellar field for Women's World Cup of Golf

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| date = 14 November 2005

| url = http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com/content/let_content_feature.php?Id=3994

| access-date = 31 March 2007}} and was a member of the victorious International team captained by Annika Sörenstam in the inaugural Lexus Cup.

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}}

She won the 2007 Scandinavian TPC hosted by Annika.

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In January 2009, she won the inaugural HSBC LPGA Brasil Cup 2009, an unofficial LPGA event with a field of 14 LPGA players and a Brazilian national amateur. Matthew was five months pregnant with her second child at the time of the victory.

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On 2 August 2009 at Royal Lytham & St Annes, Matthew won the Ricoh Women's British Open with a final score of 3-under-par over second-place finisher Karrie Webb. It was her first win in a major tournament. The victory came 11 weeks after she gave birth to her second daughter, Sophie. She was the first player from Scotland to win a women's major golf tournament.

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On 13 November 2011, Matthew won her fourth LPGA title at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico.

At the 2013 LPGA Championship, Matthew finished runner-up after losing a sudden-death playoff against the world number one Inbee Park. Matthew and Park finished the tournament tied together at five-under-par, with Matthew coming from seven strokes behind Park at the start of the final round. In the playoff, they both parred the first two extra holes, but Matthew lost out on the third extra hole when Park made birdie.

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| date = 9 June 2013

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In July 2016, Matthew was named as a vice-captain for the 2017 Solheim Cup{{cite magazine |url=http://www.bunkered.co.uk/golf-news/catriona-matthew-named-solheim-vice-captain |title=Catriona Matthew named Solheim vice-captain |date=21 July 2016 |magazine=bunkered |first=Martin |last=Inglis}} but ended up playing in the match after an injury to Suzann Pettersen.

On 21 September 2017, Matthew was announced as captain for the 2019 Solheim Cup, which took place at Gleneagles.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.bunkered.co.uk/golf-news/catriona-matthew-is-named-2019-solheim-cup-captain |title=Catriona Matthew named 2019 Solheim Cup captain |date=21 September 2017 |magazine=bunkered |first=Martin |last=Inglis}} Europe won the cup in 2019.

In October 2019, Matthew was announced as Solheim Cup captain for 2021. On 6 September 2021, Matthew led the European team to defeat the US at the Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/58470233 |title=Solheim Cup 2021: Matilda Castren claims winning point as Europe retain the trophy |date=9 September 2021 |work=BBC Sport}}

Matthew's husband Graeme is her caddy and on 18 December 2006 they had their first child, a daughter named Katie Jessica Matthew and then gave birth to a second daughter named Sophie Lauren Matthew on 16 May 2009.{{cite magazine |title=Fire starter |magazine=Golfweek |date=31 July 2009 |url=http://www.golfweek.com/protours/lpga/story/baldry-073109 |access-date=31 July 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}{{cbignore}}

In July 2009, Matthew and her husband escaped a fire at the hotel they were staying in while she played in the Evian Masters. Graeme suffered burns to his feet and was unable to caddy for two rounds.{{cite web |title=Matthew forgets hotel blaze, shares Open lead |date=31 July 2009 |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iJVPA1YMZkix0Ft65EniXLM2QgRw |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124181815/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iJVPA1YMZkix0Ft65EniXLM2QgRw |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 January 2013 |access-date=31 July 2009}}

Matthew was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours{{London Gazette |issue=59282 |date=31 December 2009 |page=19 |supp=y}} and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to golf.{{London Gazette|issue=62866|supp=y|page=N13|date=28 December 2019}}{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-50924418 |title=Solheim Cup captain Catriona Matthew leads New Year Honours list |work=BBC |date=27 December 2019}}

LPGA Tour playoff record (1–2)

¹ The Ricoh Women's British Open was co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour.
Majors championships are shown in bold.

Results not in chronological order.

^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.

^^ The Evian Championship was added as a major in 2013

{{legend|lime|Win}}

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CUT = missed the half-way cut

NT = no tournament

T = tied

• Most consecutive cuts made – 10 (2001 LPGA – 2003 U.S. Open)
• Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (four times)

• official through 2020 season{{cite web |access-date=29 December 2020 |title=Catriona Matthew stats |publisher=LPGA |url=http://www.lpga.com/players/catriona-matthew/81313/stats}}

Career earnings $9,733,132

Position in Women's World Golf Rankings at the end of each calendar year.

Amateur

• European Lady Junior's Team Championship (representing Scotland): 1988{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hA01AAAAIBAJ&pg=6406%2C2727748 |title=Scots girls meet their Waterloo in final |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |page=12 |date=11 July 1988}}
• European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Scotland): 1989, 1991, 1993
• Vagliano Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1989 (winners), 1991 (winners), 1993 (winners)
• Curtis Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1990, 1992 (winners), 1994 (tie, Cup retained), 2024 (non-playing captain, winners)
• Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1992
• Commonwealth Trophy (representing Great Britain): 1991 (winners)

Professional

• Solheim Cup (representing Europe): 1998, 2003 (winners), 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 (winners), 2013 (winners), 2015, 2017, 2019 (non-playing captain, winners), 2021 (non-playing captain, winners)
• Lexus Cup (representing International team): 2005 (winners), 2007
• World Cup (representing Scotland): 2005, 2006, 2008
• Handa Cup (representing World team): 2015
• The Queens (representing Europe): 2015, 2016
• European Championships (representing Great Britain): 2018

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