Q. How about Se Ri Pak, she had it going on a while, this is kind of her course, were you surprised?
PAULA CREAMER: She played phenomenal that stretch. She hit like laser at the flag every time. She was playing awesome. When you are playing with someone like that it helps you, motivates you more because you want to get inside of her. You want to make birdie on top. She is playing really good golf. She had a good day, just those couple of holes that she didn't finish with a bogey. That always hurts. I like playing with Se Ri and Annika. It ups the level of the competition.
Q. I would guess everyone out here measures themselves against Annika. How much do you pay attention to the other younger players, do you watch and see how you're doing in tournaments compared to them, the rankings?
PAULA CREAMER: I more base myself on how my expectations are. I don't really compare myself to anybody. I like to watch people and learn what works for them, maybe use that and help myself. But you know by comparing myself to see how I'm doing level wise, I don't really do that. I look at the top. Right now Annika and Se Ri have been playing very well. Lorena has. I compare myself to that.
Q. Se Ri was just in here talking about learning to smile and enjoy golf and finding some balance, can you see a difference in her for when she arrived on Tour, the player out there?
NANCY LOPEZ: I know when she first came out she was so trained to do things a certain way and I remember asking her, when I saw she was struggling, I told her, ‘Why don't you just come to my home in Georgia and relax and enjoy not playing golf. Don't play any golf. Just get away from it for a while.'
She told me, ‘I've never done that. I've never not practiced.' I think when she hurt her hand, I don't know what tournament it was last year, it was probably the best thing that ever happened to her because she couldn't play. It was time for her to take a break. I think she feels a lot of pressure from her country, and felt a lot of pressure. You know, when you fail and people are angry because you fail, then you became afraid to fail, and you cannot be successful.
My dad never made me feel afraid to fail. If I failed, I took it to heart myself. But my dad never made me feel like I failed. He would always give me a hug. He would always say, ‘That's okay, let's just go work a little harder.' He never put pressure on me. So if I was stepping over a shot I wasn't worried about what my dad was going to say to me when I finished playing a round. He always had a hug for me and, I think, that's what helped me to be successful in golf for as many years as I was because I failed sometimes. But I learned from it and I never had anybody to ridicule what I did.
I always kind of beat myself up by myself and I think that's why I was able to do as well as I did. I think that really hurt Se Ri Pak for a while because she was successful and then she struggled. Then I think there were a lot of people that were very hard on her during that time. I think with her having that injury was really a blessing for her, so she could get away from golf for a while, and let her mind rest and body rest and practice every day.
Q. Se Ri said you were an idol for her. How does it feel playing against the next generation?
NANCY LOPEZ: Se Ri is a good friend of mine. I played a lot of practice rounds with her when I stopped playing on the Tour. Any way can I help any of these young players to realize that.
There are so many players throughout the Tour who have brought the Tour to where it is now. For them to keep helping this Tour, by being nice, by smiling, by signing autographs, by giving back is what it's all about.
Hopefully, I can set an example to them. If they said, I'm their idol – because I think it's important. JoAnne Carner was my idol. Joanne had a great attitude and never had that look of defeat on her face. She just always tried. I never saw her quit. I think that's why she had some many fans also because she was fun to watch. People don't like to watch people beating clubs in the ground and having an attitude. I don't like it. I don't like to watch it. So I don't think fans like that. I think they enjoy if you hit a bad shot, okay, you hit a bad shot. But you still walked to the next shot with a lot of dignity knowing that you are going to try to hit that next shot as good as you can.
Any way I can help young players, I hope I'm approachable to them. If I can help the next generation realize that this is a great sport, and they have to give back for it to keep growing, and you have to become one as a Tour, and not individuals as we are. I think in the years passed we were like that.
Kathy Whitworth and JoAnne Carner and Donna Caponi, and Judy Rankin, and myself, Amy Alcott, Beth Daniel, all of those older players, I felt we were really a family. I hope that all of the players out here will learn to be that way, the young players.
I think The Solheim Cup was a family for me, and I think they are still family. They still root for each other. It was a great experience for them. The friendships grew when they weren't that close before.
So I think that's so important because the stronger we are as a group, as one, we'll be so good together if we can do that.
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