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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
13. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My husband and two daughters
14. When and where were you happiest?
My wedding and when my children were born
15. Which talent would you most like to have?
To fly
16. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My sweet tooth
17. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Having children
18. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
A dog
19. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Giving birth
20. What is your favorite occupation?
Golfer
21. What is your most marked characteristic?
Patience
22. Who are your favorite writers?
David Baldacci, Patricia Cromwell
23. Who is your hero of fiction?
James Bond