Q. Laura and Annika, in the nicest possible way, you've both been around and competed in these matches for a long time and had a lot of experience. Could both of you, please, identify one thing about this match, other than winning, that would stay in your mind and will always come to mind when you think of the 2003 Solheim Cup.
LAURA DAVIES: I think for me it's the crowd. Walking the fairways, 15-20 deep, especially around it seemed like 7 and 8 was huge, and you walked through there, you had a big lift down 9, 10, 11. You looked forward to getting to that part of the golf course. And then you come down 16, 17, 18. For me the memory is the crowd.
ANNIKA SORENSTAM: I agree totally with Laura. The crowd, I thought they were spectacular this week. Obviously they were very supportive of the Europeans. But I thought they were also a good golf crowd. I'm very proud for being a Swede to see so many Swedes out there. Obviously the tournament itself I felt was very well organized, very professionally done.
Q. Catrin, how much were you watching the board and kind of calculating in your mind playing it out? Was there a particular match as the day unfolded that you thought was particularly pivotal?
CATRIN NILSMARK: I was very happy to see that my strategy was to get two points out of the first three -- or I felt that that was quite important. And then I was following Beanie's match, Catriona's match pretty closely. I felt like that was a key match. Early on in the day, let's say halfway through the day, Iben's match and Catriona's looked extremely important. Although then at the end Mhairi started to play really well, and she got 1 -- 2 -- 3-up. So even when Iben went back to 1-up I felt pretty confident because at that time Mhairi had started to get up. At a certain time it sure looked like it could go either way, which it always can do in match play. Catriona's and Iben's matches, I followed them pretty closely.
Q. Suzann, did you play with the "birdie" ball today? If not, what have you done with it.
SUZANN PETTERSEN: I actually changed at number 5.
Q. You still have the birdie ball?
SUZANN PETTERSEN: Yes.
Q. Can I just ask about the concessions at the end? Do you know how that started?
CATRIN NILSMARK: How did it start that we conceded matches at all?
Q. Yes.
CATRIN NILSMARK: Because I think when you have the cup, it just doesn't feel too inspiring to play on. I don't know -- when you read the history books afterwards, I can understand the players who want the matches to go on, because you have a Solheim Cup record. But in reality it's very difficult to keep going if you've won or lost the cup. It's a little bit meaningless, unless you're starting to play the 18th and it's huge crowds and you're somebody like an Annika or something that is a huge idol like what happened in the Ryder Cup with Tiger. People are there and maybe he can play that hole for show. But it's a difficult decision. Today we did have some problems, but it was only because of misunderstandings, verbal misunderstandings between the players involved. It really was no incident at all. And we solved it pretty quickly afterwards.
Q. Which ones? Which misunderstandings?
CATRIN NILSMARK: Beth Daniel and Mhairi McKay. Beth actually conceded the match. And Mhairi didn't -- thought she didn't. So then Beth thought that Mhairi conceded in the end. It was just a misunderstanding.
Q. Patty suggested that the team that won the cup, every member should just concede their match.
CATRIN NILSMARK: I don't necessarily agree with that. I don't. Because like in Mhairi's case, it was her second match. She lost yesterday. Today she went out, she played great. She was 3-up just a little bit before you played 15. And then to just -- it feels pretty good -- like I said, in the books, it feels pretty good to have won one on the record. And it can actually make a difference in future Solheim Cups when that other player that is matched up against you says, "Oh, she's never won a match". So it not only is important from a personal point of view, but it could be important in the future from a psychological point of view. I think maybe in that case when Beth has been 3-down -- I'm not talking about particularly Beth Daniel, because she did concede, but that player that's 3-down, maybe she should say, "It's yours."
Q. Do you think that the score alone, which is the largest margin in these matches, will be a psychological boost -- the score, the largest margin of victory, do you think that will be a psychological boost?
CATRIN NILSMARK: You mean in the history books? Definitely. When I made my picks for this, I went back to the history books, how has this player been in the Walker Cup, how is she in match play. You can't know all these girls since 50 years back. So it is important. Therefore I don't necessarily agree with that.
Q. Laura, what was your exchange with Meg Mallon when this arose?
LAURA DAVIES: It finished on 14th green, 15 tee, we both said to the referee, "We want to have a half". We just wanted to shake hands and he said, "We can't do that". We were up on the green. Meg didn't want to play anymore. I didn't want to play anymore. I just wanted to find the rest of the team. Meg actually made a comment and said she conceded the match. By the time I realized what was happening, I said I concede the match. But Meg had already done it. So now we were arguing. But because she said it first, they had to take that. That was it. She had already done it and that was the end of that. The points are irrelevant after that. I think whatever happens after the points -- every match should finish. If you're up, you win, if you're down, you're down. If you're square, you're square. It's not worth playing on after that. Once you've got 14 and a half, it's time to stop.
MARTIN PARK: Catrin, Team Europe, thank you very much for coming in. Congratulations.
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