FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Long before Luke Donald was Europe’s Ryder Cup captain, he was an amateur golfer at Northwestern in the late 1990s and early 2000s. That time in the Chicago area overlapped with the tail end of Michael Jordan’s heyday of winning six NBA titles with the Bulls.

Jordan liked to play golf, and the two became friends and remain so, now living nearby each other in Florida. Donald hasn’t let that connection go to waste.

“Michael is someone I’ve been very fortunate to get access to and pick his brain occasionally about what made him tick, what motivated him, how he was able to get the best out of himself,” Donald said Tuesday. “It’s nice to have someone that is a legend of their sport — the greatest ever, quite arguably — to sit down occasionally and pick their brains.”

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