Europe captain Darren Clarke was keen to stress that the Ryder Cup in September wasn't in his thoughts heading into the second edition of the EurAsia Cup this week.
"There's no Ryder Cup stuff going on in the back of my mind," Clarke said on Tuesday.
It seems his players see it differently.
"One of the main reasons I wanted to play the EurAsia Cup so much was to get invaluable team experience in a Ryder Cup year," said Irish player Shane Lowry, making it clear where his priorities lay going into the match against Asia starting in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.