Annika Sorenstam's retirement from golf at the end of the year will not stop her from becoming Solheim Cup captain in the future.
"Absolutely - it would be a tremendous honour," said the 37-year-old Swede, whose third-round 70 in the Ricoh Women's British Open, her final major, kept her deep in the pack at Sunningdale.
"I would not want to do it as soon as 2011, but 2013 or later.
"I've been asked about being the captain, but I don't know what the plans are. There are other players in line, I'm sure."
England's Alison Nicholas has been awarded the captaincy for next year's match in America and could well be succeeded by her former partner Laura Davies, with Sorenstam to follow that.
The 10-time major winner and current world number two, who is quitting to concentrate on other business interests and possibly to start a family, is the record points-scorer in cup history.
She earned her eighth cap in her home country last year and with two wins and a half took her total haul to 24 points, one more than Davies.
Sorenstam was relieved to survive the halfway cut at Sunningdale with a stroke to spare on level par and when she followed an outward 34 with a chip-in eagle at the 322-yard 11th she moved into the top 20.
But then came bogeys at the 13th and 17th and it remains the case that, much to her disappointment, she has been unable to sparkle since making her retirement plans public knowledge in May.
At two under par she was still eight adrift of Japan's Yuri Fudoh and Korean Ji-Yai Shin, who had yet to tee off again one ahead of American Juli Inkster, at 48 trying to become the oldest-ever major winner in women's golf.
Inkster achieved the only eagle of the day on the 485-yard first, hitting her second to eight feet, and very nearly eagled the second as well when her chip from deep rough short right of the green ran past the edge of the cup.
Her birdie took her to 12 under and one ahead of Fudoh, who chipped to three feet for birdie on the first.
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