For Jezz re Sir Nick

[bladeplayer]

Just on from your post regarding Martin Laird , the interview with Sir Nick was very good in this months mag , just wondering what it is like to be seated face to face with someone of that stature .. Can only imagine the presence he holds ..

do interviws like this stil hold the wow factor for you , also who would you most like to interview or re interview one to one & the question you would most like to ask ,

Forumers .. if you were in Jezz or Mike place (or anyone at GM for that) who would you most like to interview & what 3 questions woud you ask ?

 

[MashieNiblick]

Good question so hope to bump this thread as it seems to have been a bit neglected.

Given that time marches on I think I'd go for one of the older generation before they depart for the great links in the sky.

On that basis I think Palmer would be top of my list. I'd love to ask him his opinion about the changes in the game and about how it felt to be followed by the "army" and to be at the forefront of golf's boom in the late 50's and 60's as Golf's first global superstar.

Who was the best he's seen and who are his favourites among the new crop of players and how does he think he'd fare against them if he was in his prime?

Of course that is assuming I could overcome my nerves to actually speak to the great man.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

For me it would have to be Nicklaus - simply the best golfer there has been and his record speaks for itself. What do you ask a guy who has been there and seen it and asked about it for 50 odd years but here goes.

1) What was it like in the 60's and 70's with playing with the likes of Player, Palmer etc and did you and your wives actually dine together during events or did you like to keep your rivals at arms length while you played

2) If you could go back to any of the courses you have designed and think "I wish I'd done it differently" which one would you choose and why

3) Where do you think technology is going to take golf in the next ten years. Courses can't keep getting longer so do you think there will come a time when the R&A and USPGA have to introduce a ball designed to go a maximum distance to prevent courses becoming obsolete and encourae new designs within much more limited spaces as the demand for land for other uses increases

 

[richart]

Lee Trevino, wouldn't exactly be hard to get him to talk, and would love to know more about his hustling days.

 

[Tiger]

Tiger Woods but only after he had swallowed a bottle of truth serum. I'd want to probe to find out if there is a personality lurking in there or if he really is a golf machine

 

[alnecosse]

Got to say for me it has to be Tom Watson a guy i grew up watching and although Jack Nicklaus used to be the man in that era, thought Watson was an all round decent guy with tremendous talent that he is still putting to good use today at 60yrs old would probably ask him how he could keep motivated for so long.

 

[ADB]

I would love to have an in depth interview with Sergio to get to the nub of his hissy fits, how losing the Open and PGA to Porridge really affected him, his realistic goals for the future and whether he feels he has generally underachieved in his career (as I think he has).

 

[Val]

Not so much a 3 question interview but I'd love a few hours with Tom Watson as I really admire him as a player and as a person.

Would also love a few beers with Lee Westwood

 

[JezzE]

Just on from your post regarding Martin Laird , the interview with Sir Nick was very good in this months mag , just wondering what it is like to be seated face to face with someone of that stature .. Can only imagine the presence he holds ..

do interviws like this stil hold the wow factor for you , also who would you most like to interview or re interview one to one & the question you would most like to ask ,

Bill, it is quite intimidating at first but you get used to it after a while, though you never lose the sense of excitement at talking to one of the stars of the sport you love. There may still be a slight sense of trepidation with one or two (nameless) players who perhaps have a reputation for being slightly harder work, and some journos would have had Faldo among that number. I've interviewed him perhaps 4 times, and only ever caught him on good days - in fact, he was the very first interview I did when I joined the magazine over 9 years ago at the time he was just signing for Nike. To say I was nervous would have been an understatement, but it all went fine and I even managed to get my questions out reasonably coherently. My second interview, by contrast, was with Jodie Kidd at Callaway, and I even secured a quick peck on the cheek at the end (haven't washed my face since!).

I suppose the one we'd all like to get would be the one-on-one with Tiger (though perhaps less so now for me) that Tappers got last year in Dubai. Didn't speak to him for a month after that (Tappers not Tiger). Don't know if there's one burning question though...