⛳ Luke Donald 🤝 Michael Jordan 🏀

Luke Donald, captain of the European Ryder Cup squad, shares what he has learned from American Michael Jordan, explaining why the basketball star was a great teammate and how good he was at setting goals. #GolfChannel #RyderCup #LukeDonald #MichaelJordan
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⛳ Luke Donald 🤝 Michael Jordan 🏀
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Yeah, I think um very surreal for me. I I I know I grew up in England, so I wasn’t that exposed to how how big he was, but I came to college in Chicago in 97, sort of the end of his major run. And you just all all you hear about is people talking about him. And so, you know, you understand start watching more games and understanding the the influence he had. And I think all of us watched that last dance documentary uh when it came out again at the beginning of co and we had nothing else to do but sit at home and watch great documentaries and you the thing I learned about from MJ and it came through I think in that document is that he was never going to do anything that he didn’t ask his teammates to do. You know he he set the example. He um led from the front. um he was very passionate about it and he was very good at breaking down things into smaller manageable goals. So, um, you know, one example was he wanted to win the the scoring title. Um, and he needed to average something like 38 points or or 38 points a game or something to do that, but he just broke it down into quarters and made it simple. And I think, um, you know, it’s a good analogy about what that represents. But he also taught me that, you know, I think he won four or five scoring titles before he won an NBA championship. You need your teammates around you. So you can be a you can be a team of champions but not a championship team but so you always need the people around you. You’re always stronger with the being a collective. I think that’s something that I certainly took from him and I’ve tried to implant on my teams the last two times that we’re always stronger together and um you know those are strong values that that we we try and live up