THE SOLHEIM CUP

October 21, 1994

JoAnne Carner

JoANNE CARNER: All and all, I am very pleased with how we stand. As you all know, this is not our favorite form of playing. We don't ever play it and alternate shot straight -- alternate shot is very, very difficult for our team. They have been playing extremely well coming into this and I figured if they kept playing this well we would probably reverse the end result and we would be 3 and they'd be 2. With us finishing two, I am very happy with the fact that we are one behind and that is all, because from here on in, we are going to go into our forte which is individual play; what we are used to; everybody can play their own ball; everybody can get a little more aggressive.

JoANNE CARNER: Some of the teams were having difficulty starting. They were, I believe, too nervous; couldn't get anything really gelling until they got passed 9 and so on. Then they started to relax and started to free-wheel and started to play very well coming in.

JoANNE CARNER: They were playing well here. They just were both off.

JoANNE CARNER: The hat is a gift from our hair dresser on tour. Beverly is her name. She lives in Carmel, California and comes out every two, three weeks and is in the locker room. She is just a lot of fun to be around. She is here this week. But she was in Carmel and they have a family outing on the fourth of July deal, and she got this hat. So, she decided that it would be a great hat for the U.S. captain. So Beverly gave it to me in Canada. That would be July, early July, something like that, second week of July, whatever it was, and gave it to me for good luck. So I paraded around the locker room in front of Laura and Lana (PHONETIC) and Trish and all of them up there in Canada, and when I got on the charter I had it on there. They were trying to steal it there, and they have been trying to steal it ever since. It is my good luck hat.

JoANNE CARNER: We are having a family get together. It has been -- it started with the team getting together with all the family members that are here for The Solheim Cup. And as of now, we are 58, and so we decided it would be great to get everybody all dressed up. Some are in another hotel and whatnot, so it is part of The Greenbrier atmosphere too. We are going to have a short cocktail party in our suite, and then we will go right down into a private room that The Greenbrier has set aside for us, and we will just have a nice dress-up dinner.

JoANNE CARNER: There isn't any strategy. They are fine. We talked a little bit, you know, but until we got the pairings, I will probably talk a little bit with a couple of players. That is it.

JoANNE CARNER: Laura is just a great player. I mean, you know, the way she is firing it in, they are coming in. It is beautiful to watch. You'd wish she'd be on your team. But she still makes mistakes out there too. But coming down the wire, Laura loves it. She thrives on it. Just really rolls -- even match, it was going up-and-down all the way and then she just caught fire.

JoANNE CARNER: There is no way Laura is going to play behind Reid and Fairclough. They are just too slow. I mean, Laura likes to play in an hour and 30 minutes and they will play field hockey or something for three hours. But, you know. . .

JoANNE CARNER: No. I mean, what am I going to change? Who am I going to try and outguess? I have the order and everything.

JoANNE CARNER: I've got a headache and I am ready for a Stoley. It was so nerve-wracking because, I mean, it was like I played every shot, I putted every putt, I hit every chip. You know, I mean it was just, I mean, like the last shot, Sherri Steinhauer got this bunker shot, I am saying "don't hit it down, don't hit it down," I mean, because it goes over there and it will just keep trickling and go down into the bunker on the other side and all that. But I mean, it was so exciting and yet so nerve-wracking to be sitting on the sideline watching and knowing why my husband has gray hair.

JoANNE CARNER: Probably a disaster case. Hopefully drinking champagne Sunday night.