Michael Jordan couldn't psych out Ian Poulter
Posted Sep 2, 2014
Apart from his basketball skills, Michael Jordan will go down as one of the greatest trash talkers in sports history. Yet there was one athlete he couldn’t throw off his game: Ian Poulter. Mark Rolfing tells the story of how Jordan tried to distract Poulter during the 2012 Ryder Cup at Medinah in “Road to the Ryder Cup”. On his weekly radio show, Poulter recalled his mind game with Jordan earlier this year:
(Chicago Tribune)
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