Q. As it was down the stretch, I saw you two on the 16th green and you were still kind of joking around. Down the stretch was it really that much fun, as fun as it looked?
BETH DANIEL: It is fun.
JULI INKSTER: It's nerve-racking, but --
BETH DANIEL: Yeah. It's nerve-racking, but it's fun. It's something that you look back on. This is something that I'll remember because I have never in Solheim Cup history been paired with Juli Inkster. It's hard to believe. No captain has ever paired us together. So we kind of almost talked Patty into doing it. We just kept telling her we think that we'd be a good team and consider putting us together. And she did. I think you have to try and enjoy it. When I saw the pairing, too I went, "Oh, my gosh, tough pairing. But, you know, enjoy it". Enjoy the fact that you're out there with possibly the best pairing that Europe has put together in recent history. And definitely the number one player in the world right now. Just go out there and enjoy it. I tried to do that.
JULI INKSTER: We were the underdogs.
BETH DANIEL: We didn't have anything to lose.
JULI INKSTER: I think we're comfortable with each other as far as I don't think either one of us would try to do anything that we don't think we're capable of doing. We just kind of play our own games. I think we were fortunate to win.
BETH DANIEL: I do, too. I agree with that. I think we were fortunate to win. Like Juli said, we didn't have our best games out there, but we were able to ham and egg it and help each other out when the other one needed help. It worked out well. We'll take the point.
Q. Would you like to stay together now then, tomorrow?
BETH DANIEL: I don't know if we have any choice in that. It sure would be fun to stay with Juli. Personally I think Juli is one of the best competitors in the history of the game. Who wouldn't want to play with her. I'd be crazy to say I didn't want to play with her.
Q. There's no reason why you haven't in the past?
JULI INKSTER: I think because we've always had a lot of younger players.
Q. You mother them?
JULI INKSTER: They kind of wanted to split us up. In fact we were talking on 16, we said, we don't know if this is going to be our last Solheim Cup or whatever. That's why we're enjoying it.
Q. Juli, beating Annika and Carin, how important was it? Not just for the point on the score board but for the mental importance?
JULI INKSTER: I don't look at it as any more than just a point. Annika is by far the best player in the world, and Carin is a very tough competitor and complements Annika great. They play very well together. It was a very tough match. For us to win I think is a huge point. But I don't think as far as giving us an advantage for tomorrow, I think tomorrow is the same thing. It's another match. You've got to go out there and try to get another point.
Q. Your captain, obviously she's a good listener. She put you two together. What did she do for you out there on the course? Was she pushing you, talking to you, leaving you alone?
JULI INKSTER: I'll let you answer that.
BETH DANIEL: Generally Patty has left me alone the last two Solheim cups. I don't require a lot of maintenance when I'm playing golf. I told her, "You can leave me alone, you don't have to feel like you have to be there for me all the time because I know that you are there". I've known Patty long enough, I've competed against her. Juli knows her even better than I do probably, but we basically are great friends. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Patty. I know she's going to be there for me, whether I can visibly see her or not. Patty has been a great captain these last two Solheim cups. I've really enjoyed her as captain. Every captain that we've had has been uniquely different. That's part of the fun of making a Solheim Cup team.
LAURA NEAL: Thank you very much.
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