Word that Luke Donald had provided members of the European Ryder Cup team with a VR headset to help simulate the noise at Bethpage Black drew plenty of headlines, but it seemed as though some of the players got more of a kick out of it as a novelty than anything else.

Rasmus Højgaard called it “a fun little gimmick from the team” on Wednesday when he was asked bout the VR headset, while also saying that he had tried them on.

“I thought it was a fun idea. Yeah, it gave us a picture of how the whole first tee looked like, which I thought was quite fun,” he said.

Team Europe elder statesman Justin Rose revealed that he didn’t use the virtual reality headset “more than five minutes,” but appreciated the thought behind the idea of providing players with it. 3

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