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Q.: Juli, has it started to set in that this is your last Solheim? You said it on TV earlier.

DANIEL: Are we doing a farewell tour? Brett Favre right here.

INKSTER: I am really happy where I'm at. I'm not saying I'm retiring because I am keeping an eye out on all you guys, but you know what, I'm perfectly fine where I'm at right now, and this was a great thrill to be involved with these other 11 ladies, and Beth and Meg [Mallon] and Kelly [Robbins]. It was a great way to go out. I will do whatever they want for me to do next year, help them out, be a little runner or whatever they want me to do. But I'm going to watch these girls play.

As long as I get a VIP pass, I'm good.

Q.: This one is for Paula [Creamer]. Talk about the importance of you getting off to a good start, and then you're 3-for-3 in Solheim Cups and you've played great in all three of them. What is it about this?

PAULA CREAMER: I knew going out, first off, was a lot of just momentum going out. I tried to get the crowds going as loud as I could. With the team behind me, I knew I was in not a very bad place at all.

I kind of talked to Angela about it that night, and I said, we're going out and getting those first two points and we're going to put it up on the board as soon as we can, and we did. We kind of had a battle against each other in the sense of who could get the first point. Angela, I think, beat me at it, but it was a great match, it really was. There was a lot of birdies made, a lot of good putts.

But when you do have that first spot, you know you have to motivate your team. They want to see red, and for a long time they saw blue up there, and I kind of feel when the red started showing there was hope in everybody's eyes.

But it's been a wonderful week. I've always said, this has been the best week of my life. It's better than winning any tournament on my own. Whenever you can wear red, white and blue, hold those flags and play with 11 Americans that want the same thing as you, it's pretty special. I'm not going to cry.

DANIEL: I just want to add to what she said. Paula is so into the Solheim Cup that she was No. 1 in the points. I felt like she deserved to go out first, and she did us proud.

Q.: Juli, can you just take us through the 18th?

INKSTER: Do we have to? Yeah, I lost the hole, but I won 14, 15, 16 and 17, so can I go through those?

Q.: Michelle, if you could talk about two points in your match, matching Helen [Alfredsson's] bomb on No. 2 and getting the eagle to get off to a good start and then digging down after she made it all square again?

MICHELLE WIE: I'm actually really glad to talk about No. 2. I think that my second shot was the best shot I've ever hit, ever. I mean, I gave myself a little pat on the back. I wasn't ashamed to do that. She stuck it. I mean, she hit some shots today that were unbelievable. I mean, she was playing fantastic.

You know, I think I couldn't have chosen a better opponent. I mean, I didn't choose her, but I couldn't have faced a better opponent. She was great. She just has so much experience under her belt, and playing against her was fabulous.

But when she stuck it to four feet, I looked at Patrick, and Patrick told me, my caddie told me, just aim a little bit left. I was like, OK, sure. I hit the shot and I aimed right at the flag. And after I got it in three feet, I was ... you know, I was pumped up. I was ready to go.

Q.: This is for anyone. Could you talk about the course long‑term as a possible host of other big tournaments down the line?

KERR: Yes, I played all 72 holes, thank you very much. It was my curse for playing nine‑hole practice rounds.

Anyways, I think Rich Harvest Farms is a great course. It's certainly set up great for the Solheim Cup. I think it would be a great course for another tournament. You know, they just have to figure out which it would be.

We certainly enjoyed playing the course and enjoyed playing it for the Solheim. So that would be up to whatever tour and the course, I guess.

LINCICOME: I liked it. It was nice and long. We can come back any time.

Q.: For Michelle, given the way you played and the big stage, was this the best week of your career?

WIE: By far. I think it was the most fun I've had playing. I think I've said that multiple times this week, but every hole seemed like walking down 18 of a major championship times 100. I mean, these crowds were absolutely amazing, and to have 11 other team members as great as these people, it was just so fabulous. It was just unbelievable, just playing today and the intensity and just playing against such a great team. The Europeans were playing awesome.

You know, nothing was given, nothing was given out there. We had to fight hard. We had to do everything. So just the intensity, I've never felt anything like it before. It was definitely the highlight of my career.

INKSTER: Your long career, that whole half a year.

Q.: Michelle, just to briefly follow up on that, on TV there seemed to be some buzz that maybe this is a big turning point for you. Do you think that's drawing too much from a few days of good golf, or do you think you did find something in yourself this week?

WIE: You know (shrugging), I mean, I feel like I played great this week. Hopefully that will carry over. But you never know about golf. You can have a good week, you can have a bad week. But I know that I had fun this week. I know I tried my hardest. I give my hardest every single week, and whatever the outcome is, I'm going to be happy with it as long as I try my hardest.

I'm happy with it this week because I tried my hardest, I gave it my 120 percent, and I'm going to do that from now on, and I always have done that. Whether the outcome is good or bad, I'm going to try and have fun and try my hardest.

Q.: Beth, you didn't hit a shot all week, but is this as mentally drained as you've ever been after a Solheim?

DANIEL: I've been pretty mentally drained playing in them, too, but this was ... they about gave me a heart attack today.

You know, we got a text message from Curtis Strange yesterday afternoon, and I've been talking to Curtis and Sarah a little bit about their Ryder Cup experience. He's kind of been in watching the team and that sort of thing, and so he sent a text. I think in the second sentence of the text, he goes, "you guys make my nervous." I can tell Curtis Strange they made me more nervous than they made him. I am drained. I can honestly say I have not slept a full night's sleep in a month, thinking about things. See, now I'm going to cry.

I'm not Nancy Lopez, though. I saw Ali today ... I thought I would sleep well last night because I said my work is done. I woke up at 4:11 every day for some reason, but I woke up at 4:11 again this morning thinking about what should I do with the closing ceremony? What are we going to do at the closing ceremony and what if we win or what if we lose and what do I do, and I thought, this is so stupid, just deal with it as it comes along.

But it's like all this preparation, I wanted things to be perfect, and Meg and Kelly have done a super job, and we've worked really, really hard the last year and a half to make this happen.

Q.: I wanted to ask you about you said last night, Beth, that your work was done, when really you knew that it wasn't done. How hard did you have to work today and how much did you help your team today?

INKSTER: Immensely.

DANIEL: I don't know that I helped them today. When I put the lineup in, I was out there for moral support. You know, a lot of the caddies said that they wanted how the holes were playing on the par‑3s, so I left the first tee and I went over to five because that was a crucial hole. Sitting there and watching every group go through except for PC and Colin ... you were the first out so I just got what it was playing.

CREAMER: I lost the hole, though.

DANIEL: Good thing I didn't know that. I would have come up there ahead.

Paula was the first one out, and she and Colin are so good about like what it's playing yardage‑wise and where the wind is coming from and that sort of thing. So as everybody went along, I just compiled notes. You know, they could play off of whatever helped them, whoever they knew how their game was.

But they wanted me to go to five because that hole was open. And I honestly think that we hit better shots on five today overall than the European team did.

But I mean, basically it was just moral support. But you know, Meg and Kelly and I tried to split up and go to groups that needed help, needed to see a friendly face and that sort of thing, and that was kind of our plan all along.

But they did it. They absolutely did it, all 12 of them.

LINCICOME: There's no "I" in team.