Breaking news and confirmation the European Ryder Cup team will be packing Virtual Reality headsets into their luggage in leading out of London later night (Sunday September 14th} and bound for New York.
It is understood Euopean captain Luke Donald handed out the virtual reality sets at a Tuesday night dinner featuring all players, their families, officials and caddies ahead of the BMW PGA Championship and with Donald men’s bound for New York and a two-day training session later this week at Bethpage Black ahead of the official start to competiton on September 26th.
YES, OFFICIAL …..EUROPE’S @RyderCupEurope SECRET DEFENCE ….
News #Europe team be packing #VirtualReality headsets into their Bethpage Park golfing luggage:
“To simulate sights & sounds” says @McIlroyRory
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Key team member Rory McIlroy confirmeds the news after posting a rousing and timely Wentworth final round 65: “You can go as close to the bone as you like!”
“The VR sets are to simulate the sites and sounds and noise. That’s the stuff that they are going to have to deal with. So it’s better to try to desensitise yourself as much as possible before you get in there.
“It is individual abuse. They said: ‘How far do you want this to go?’ And I said: ‘Go as far as you want’. You can get them to say whatever you want them to say. So you can go as close to the bone as you like.
“What did it say? You don’t want to know. Not for publication! Do I have thick skin? I’m trying to develop one! You know you’re not going to be up against not just a great team but the crowd as well. That brings it’s challenges.”
McIlroy has prior Ryder Cup experience with unruly spectators as we know from th 2016 Ryder Cup at Hazeltine.
McIlroy confronted an American fan, who was later shown the front gates, for shouting abuse involving his former fiancee Caroline Wozniacki.
“There is a line that shouldn’t be crossed but I think that was on me to not react the way that I did,” he admitted.
“I understand that you have to do a better job of putting the blinkers on and not seeing and hearing everything out there as well. Yeah, it wasn’t a great comment but I shouldn’t have reacted.”
