Highlight of Annodata Scottish Golf Awards Function
Standing ovation for Catriona Matthew as she
receives Lifetime Achievement Honour
Picture of Catriona Matthew with the award, by courtesy of Kenny Smith.
Picture of Catriona Matthew with the award, by courtesy of Kenny Smith.
SCOTTISH GOLF NEWS RELEASE
Scotland’s
most successful female professional golfer, Catriona Matthew, last
night received a standing ovation from a sell-out crowd at the Annodata
Scottish Golf Awards after becoming the first female recipient of the
Lifetime Achievement honour.
A star-studded audience of
over 650 guests assembled in Edinburgh to recognise the achievements of
golfers at all levels of the game, concluding with the ex-Ricoh Women’s
British Open winner and Solheim Cup stalwart entering the nation’s
golfing ‘Hall
of Fame’.
Receiving her award from
former European Solheim Cup captain Alison Nicholas, Catriona follows
past Lifetime winners Colin Montgomerie, Paul Lawrie, Sam Torrance,
Sandy Lyle and Bernard Gallacher, on a night of celebration and
fundraising for the Scottish
Golf Charity and On Course Foundation.
Matthew, seeking to achieve
another career milestone by representing Team GB at the Olympics in Rio
this August, said: “I’m thrilled to receive this award. Lifetime
Achievement makes me feel as though I’m getting towards the end of my
career, and I’m absolutely
delighted and very honoured, but as long as I’m enjoying it and playing
well, I will still be out there.”
The 46-year-old from North
Berwick, who has racked up 11 professional wins and achieved over 100
top-10s on the LPGA circuit, added: “It’s difficult to pick one
highlight, but I think winning the Ricoh Women’s British Open (at Royal
Lytham in 2009), having
my husband, Graeme, caddieing for me that week, 10 weeks after having my
second child, was obviously a huge highlight.”
The coveted Player of the Year Award was won by US-based Russell
Knox after he became the first Scot to win a World Golf Championship
event in China last November, an honour accepted by his radio DJ sister,
Diane, who co-hosted the event with broadcaster
and Deacon Blue drummer, Dougie Vipond.
Scotland football manager
Gordon Strachan presented Knox’s award, with other star guests on the
night including Tour players Richie Ramsay, Gemma Dryburgh and Kelsey
MacDonald, legendary former European Tour starter Ivor Robson – who
collected Rickie
Fowler’s Shot of the Year for his winning wedge to the 18th at the
Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open at Gullane – rugby duo Nathan
Hines and Andy Nicol and Eve Muirhead’s World Championship-bound curling
team.
Walker Cup-winning captain
Nigel Edwards and three Scots members of his record-breaking side, Ewen
Ferguson, Grant Forrest and Jack McDonald, were also in attendance to
collect the Team of the Year prize
Nairn Dunbar’s David Torrance–
who nurtured
Knox in his younger days and has developed both the Boys' Order of Merit
and Adam Hunter award winner Sandy Scott and Men’s Order of Merit winner
Kyle Godsman – won the Coach of the Year honour.
At the grassroots level,
Prestonfield’s remarkable work with young golfers in Edinburgh was
rewarded with the ClubGolf Junior Club of the Year, with Haddington
captain David Drew ensuring a Lothians’ double by winning the Volunteer
of the Year.
The Inspiration
award was emotionally won by David Sneddon, a former army commander who
has found a new life in golf at Kingsfield Golf Centre since having his
leg amputated
The inaugural Club Manager of the Year was won by
Crail Golfing Society’s David Roy.
Guests had the chance to have photographs taken with iconic
trophies, including the Solheim and Walker Cup, and win fantastic
golfing prizes in the fund-raising auction and prize draw, including a
team in the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open Pro-Am,
Open Championship hospitality at Royal Troon and a trip to this year’s
Ryder Cup.
Other key partners supporting the event included Aberdeen Asset
Management, Allied Surveyors Scotland, Turkish Airlines, Nexus
Packaging, Scottish Golf Passport and Cameron Presentations.
Annodata 2016 Scottish Golf Awards: Roll of Honour
- Amateur Golfer of the Year: Ewen Ferguson (Sponsor: Turkish Airlines)
- Seniors Order of Merit: Ronnie Clark (Sponsor: Spire Edinburgh Hospitals)
- Shot of the Year: Rickie Fowler (Sponsor: Scottish Golf Passport)
- Boys' Order of Merit and Girls' Order of Merit: Sandy Scott & Chloe Goadby (Sponsor: Strathmore Water)
- Adam Hunter Award: Sandy Scott (Sponsor: Strathmore Water)
- Junior Club of the Year: Prestonfield GC (Sponsor: ClubGolf)
- Men's Order of Merit and Ladies' Order of Merit: Kyle Godsman and Shannon McWilliam (Sponsor: Annodata)
- Team of the Year: GB and I Walker Cup team (Sponsor: Nexus Packaging)
- Club Manager of the Year: David Roy (Sponsor: Scottish Golf)
- Volunteer of the Year: David Drew (Sponsor: Pike and Bambridge)
- Inspiration Award: David Sneddon (Sponsor: On Course Foundation)
- Bob Torrance Coach of the Year: David Torrance (Sponsor: Cameron Presentations)
- Player of the Year: Russell Knox (Sponsor: Aberdeen Asset Management)
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Catriona Matthew (Sponsor: Allied Surveyors Scotland)
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