FARMINGDALE, New York :Europe's Ryder Cup preparations for hostile American crowds included virtual reality headsets but Jon Rahm discovered this week that no amount of technology can replicate the boundaries New York fans are willing to cross.

The VR headsets allowed for personalised abuse to help golfers desensitise themselves for the Ryder Cup cauldron but Rahm said the real thing has already far exceeded their digital expectations during practice rounds.

"I don't think that we're creative enough in those VR goggles to what we're going to hear this week, so far what we've heard in practice rounds," Rahm said on Thursday ahead of his fourth Ryder Cup appearance.

The twice major champion has quickly learned that fans at Bethpage Black have an inventiveness that even sophisticated techn

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