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Catriona Matthew
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Catriona Matthew provided a momentary flicker of hope for the home galleries, winning four of five holes on the back nine in her match against Laura Diaz to take the first point of the afternoon. "Hopefully the others will take some encouragement from that," she said. But by then the visitors were ahead in six matches, level in four and down in only one. It did not take long for the American players to turn their on-course advantage into points, with Juli Inkster a 4&3 victor over Iben Tinning and Pat Hurst edging out Sophie Gustafson on the 17th green 2&1.
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When Catriona Matthew announced last year that she was pregnant, it seemed natural to assume that her magnificent career would suffer a little hiatus. After all, she would be taking on new responsibilities, would have to adjust to a new lifestyle and there was the question mark hanging over her husband’s duties as caddie.
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Now on five under following a level par first round of 73, Matthew is only one behind Ochoa, who bogeyed the last to add her own 73 to her opening 67. American Wendy Ward shares second place with Matthew.
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Matthew enjoyed a successful amateur career while growing up in Scotland. She was the 1986 Scottish Girls champion and the 1988 and 1989 Scottish Under-21 Stroke Play champion. She captured the Scottish Amateur title on three occasions in 1991, 1993 and 1994. In addition, she won the 1993 British Amateur title and was a member of the 1990, 1992 and 1994 Curtis Cup teams.
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Mallon was okay too, making a par to stay ahead of Matthew, who never recovered, carding bogeys at Nos. 15 and 18. Despite Matthew’s troubles, Mallon refused to think about winning. Her thoughts were instead about the wind.
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Catriona showed great promise as a young golfer and represented Scotland and Great Britain as a junior. She benefited greatly from a golf scholarship at Stirling University which ... enabled her to gain a degree in Financial Studies. Catriona has since established herself as one of the world's top professional golfers. (more).
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