The Full Swing with 2009 LET Player's Player of the Year Catriona Matthew

22nd December 2009

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The Full Swing with 2009 LET Player's Player of the Year Catriona Matthew

by LET

Catriona Matthew was recently voted the 2009 Ladies European Tour Players’ Player of the Year by her fellow LET members. A sensational year for the North Berwick golfer saw her earn her first major championship, at home in the British Isles, against a field containing the strongest possible opponents.

Just 11 weeks after giving birth to her second daughter Sophie and three weeks before her 40th birthday, Catriona stunned the world of golf by winning the Ricoh Women’s British Open at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. Her sensational three-stroke triumph in August, which included in the second round a course-record 7-under 30 on the back nine, meant that, 14 years after turning professional, she became the first Scot, and the fourth Brit, to claim a women’s major golf championship.

In between juggling golf and family duties in the run up to Christmas, Catriona took time out from her busy schedule to answer the LET’s “Full Swing” questionnaire.

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being at home with my family

2. What is your greatest fear?
Heights

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Stubbornness

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Cockiness

5. Which living person do you most admire?
Lance Armstrong

6. What is your greatest extravagance?
My House

7. What is your current state of mind?
Happy

8. On what occasion do you lie?
(Just little white ones)

9. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
My height

10. Which living person do you most despise?
Arrogant people

11. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Compassion

12. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
"You know"