Catherine Lacoste

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Catherine Lacoste (born 1945) is a French golfer. She won the 1967 U.S. Women's Open as a 22 year old amateur, playing in just her third professional golf tournament. She was only the second non-American to win an LPGA major after Fay Crocker of Uruguay, and she remained the only Frenchwoman to do so until Patricia Meunier-Lebouc won the 2003 Kraft Nabisco Championship. As of 2005 she is still the only amateur to have won the U.S. Women's Open.

In 1969, Lacoste also won both the United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship and British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship. but she never turned professional. She is the daughter of French tennis player Rene Lacoste and golfer Simone de la Chaume, and sits on the board of Lacoste, the major fashion company that he founded. She has sporting genes on both sides, as her mother had preceded her as a winner of British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship.

Catherine Lacoste was a member of the French team that won the inaugural World Amateur Golf Team Championships in 1964. She was part of her country's team again in the 1966, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1976,and 1978 World Championships.

Founded by her mother'father, Catherine Lacoste has been president of Chantaco Golf Club in Saint-Jean-de-Luz near her home in Biarritz for many years. She married Jaime Prado y Colón de Carvajal and had four children and also has a home in Spain. She has played little tournament golf for many years, but serves as non-playing captain of the French women's amateur team.She is now married to Angel Piñero who is a classical guitar player and has 3 grand-daughters