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04.01.2010

The LGU is delighted to congratulate Catriona Matthew on the award of her MBE in the New Year's Honours List. 

Matthew, 40, created one of the stories of the summer when she won the LGU's flagship event, the Ricoh Women's British Open at Royal Lytham just 11 weeks after giving birth to her second daughter, and just a week before the Open she had been forced to escape from a hotel fire.

The four-time Solheim Cup player is highly regarded by her fellow professionals and the Ladies' European Tour membership recently voted her as the Players' Player of the Year. 

Catriona Lambert was born in Edinburgh, and grew up in North Berwick and learned to play 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. She was a member of the 1990,1992 and 1994 Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup teams and graduated from the University of Stirling in 1992 having studied accountancy.