Open triumph for emotional Matthew

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Playing only her second tournament since returning to the game, Matthew took the Ricoh British Open at Royal Lytham by three strokes from Australian Karrie Webb.

"I had a tear in my eye coming up the last," said the 39-year-old, who has been a professional for 14 years. "I was overcome by it all."

Three clear with a round to go, things looked to be slipping away when she bogeyed the first, third and 10th and fell into a tie with Japan's Ai Miyazato, winner of last week's Evian Masters in France.

But then Matthew sank putts of 15 and 35 feet at the 13th and 14th and two-putted the long 15th for a third successive birdie to go clear.

Although she bogeyed the 17th, the big mistakes were being made elsewhere.

American star Paula Creamer, having climbed into second place, double-bogeyed the last and Miyazato double-bogeyed the 17th.

Matthew, who with her husband Graeme had to escape from an apartment block fire in France last week, took the first prize of just over £197,000 with a closing 73 and three under aggregate of 285.