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Europe was well on its way to its first Solheim Cup win on American soil on Sunday. European blue numbers were dominating the scoreboard before the United States started turning them American red. By early evening the Americans had won eight of 12 singles matches for a convincing 16-12 victory and their third straight Solheim Cup win.

MIKE SCANLAN [Moderator]: We'd like to welcome in the victorious 2009 U.S. Solheim Cup team. They pulled off the 16-12 victory over the Europeans. We'd like Beth Daniel to start with just a few thoughts on the last two years and what this means to you to have the cup in front of you right now.

BETH DANIEL: Well, it's awesome, especially since it was such a hard‑fought battle. I mean, Alison [Nichols] had her team ready to play. I mean, we really had to dig deep, and it basically came down to the back nine.

I was on the 13th tee, the par‑3, helping the players and the caddies with clubs, and that's where it started ... literally started to turn around, and that's where it turned around yesterday, as well, in the afternoon for us. That was kind of our good‑luck corner, and it was loud in that corner, too.

But I mean, they had to dig deep. They real had to dig deep to win this, and I'm so proud of each and every one of them.

SCANLAN: Morgan [Pressel], did you realize that your match was going to be the clincher?

PRESSEL: I was driving Beth nuts on the tee box to figure out what was going on, and she goes, "don't worry about it." I go, "but I want to know. What are they telling you in your ear?"

I knew what was going on. I knew that we had the half point in Christina [Kim] going dormie two matches in front of us, so I knew that winning that point on that hole specifically put us at 14 ½ points. It was exciting. It was awesome to have most of the team there cheering me on, so it was great.

Q.: Juli [Inkster], great half today. Could you have dreamt up a better script to sign off from the Solheim?

DANIEL: Who says she's done?

JULI INKSTER: I am signing off.

DANIEL: I don't believe that.

INKSTER: It was a great match. I mean, I was down all day until 17, and you know, match play is just an incredible thing. It's just one shot here, one putt there.

I don't know, I just got on a little roll there. When I was looking at the board, I know Beth told us not to look at the board, but I have to look at the board. It was not looking very good. It was looking OK, but not great.

I just kept chattering to myself to say, this is an important match, you've got to get at least a half a point here. It's two holes. If you can't win two holes, then you don't deserve to be out here.

So it was a great match. Gwladys [Nocera] played good. It was good.

Q.: Talk a little bit more about your good‑luck corner. So many matches seemed to turn in the middle of the back nine. You look up at one point and there's like six or eight blues up there, and then it just flipped. Why do you think that?

DANIEL: Yeah, somebody else answer that.

CHRISTINA KIM: Well, I think that one reason why it's considered our good‑luck corner is so many of the holes are so close to one another that every four minutes it seemed you heard another roar, and based on the volume of it you could tell it was an American. It starts off with one, and it was just [becomes] contagious. It just went all the way around, and you just get a little bit of that momentum, and you ride it out.

PRESSEL: I was playing 10 and 11, and I heard a lot of roars ahead of me. That was pretty exciting. There were just a lot of people there. I remember I heard a lot of "Juli" roars coming up 14 and 15.

INKSTER: That's because most of the crowd was over 40 or 50. They don't know any of you guys.

Q.: Beth, obviously your captain's picks were more than ‑‑

KIM: Awesome.

Q.: Could you talk about both Juli and Michelle [Wie] and especially Michelle's performance these last few days?

DANIEL: Obviously Michelle played really well. There were times when I thought she was walking on air, she was so pumped up.

You know, I mean, I thought they were good picks all along. You know, I had the veteran leadership in Juli, and every one of these guys wanted Juli on their team. That is the biggest tribute that you can give to a player.

INKSTER: Thanks.

DANIEL: You know, and Michelle was playing so well that it was just hard not to pick her, and she has continued that good play this week.

You know, I said yesterday, or the day before, I can't remember, once I made those captain's picks, they were one of 12. They were one of the team. And I told these guys all along, it was going to take 12 of us to win.

You know, I had a lineup today, I started with Paula [Creamer] and Angela [Stanford]. Those guys went out ... Paula played awesome. She had a tough match against Suzann Pettersen. That was going to be a very tough match. You know, the two of them went out and won two very quick points for us early in the day. And that helps relax them.

You make a statement, and then we got the half from Inkster, we got the half from Brittany Lang. Those were huge. At that point in time in the day, you look back, if we don't get those two halves, we don't win the Solheim Cup.

So everybody has their part in this, and it takes 12 people. I had 12 people on board, and I'm fortunate that I did, and I appreciate what they did for me.

Q.: If the two Brittanys [Lang and Lincicome] could talk about their matches, and Brittany Lang, down 2 with 2 to go with a legend there in Laura [Davies] and pulling off the half a point.

BRITTANY LANG: Well, I knew I just needed to give myself two opportunities on the last two holes. Laura was playing fantastic. She was making a lot of putts, hitting it well. So I just tried to swing aggressively on those last two holes, and I hit some of the best shots I had hit all day. Played great at hole 17, and she struggled on 17, so I was lucky there.

And then she struggled on hole 18, as well, so I hit a couple of good shots there and got a birdie and got it done.

DANIEL: You sound like you're bad. You talk like you're bad. You're good.

LINCICOME: My match was the same. It really went back and forth starting on No. 1. I made a pretty long putt, probably 20 or 25 feet or longer on the first hole, and Sophie drained it on top of me. So you knew after that first hole it was going to be a tough day, and we kept battling it out. Finally got 1‑up, and tried to hold onto it and it kind of slipped away, but then I got it back.

Finally I was putting really well. I made everything I looked at, so it was a great match. It was really a lot of fun to watch.

Q.: For Juli and whoever else wants to answer, I'm wondering if you could talk about the excitement and the energy and the atmosphere this week, and also if you think that could spill over to other parts of women's golf, the tour.

LINCICOME: I think a rookie should answer that one.

KRISTY McPHERSON: I was a good cheerleader this week. I got the crowd going up. Holla. Let me tell you, Paula did good in the stands on No. 1 tee yesterday morning. MP was there, too. She wasn't really sure what to do. Jules was in there and B. Lang.

Q.: How exciting was it, though, Kristy?

McPHERSON: It was awesome. Crowds were definitely a huge advantage for us. Every time ... I know yesterday when Morgan and I were playing in the afternoon, we needed a little pick‑me‑up, and every time we did, the crowds always ... they were there for us, and I know it got under the other girls' skin a little bit and just kind of helped us out, and any advantage we can get. And then my partner goes and makes all the putts we need to make. The crowds were awesome. We love you guys.

INKSTER: You want to know how this will help the LPGA? Well, I mean, I just think if more people could come out and actually watch us play ... I mean, I've been out here, as you guys know, a long time, and I've never seen the golf that these women play now. That's not only our team, but the European team.

You have Lorena [Ochoa] and all the other ethnic groups out there. We have the best golf right now ever. I mean, we've got a lot of diversity out there ...

DANIEL: Please don't print that.

INKSTER: And they can all play golf. But everybody writes about the negativity of the LPGA. We have a great product, and the more people see that and write about it, you know it'll be great for us.

I'm trying to say we've got some great golf, and if people would write about the golf and not about all the other stuff, you know, we would be ... we're going to be great. We're going to be good. You guys just got to be patient with us.