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I see in the latest mag you have interviews with both Zach Johnson and Shane Lowry, both conduced just before they won their respective tournaments at very big odds.

So don't suppose you could give us a heads up who you have lined up for interviews in the immediate future, just so we can get a bet on them?
 
Pretty sure these are booked a fair time ahead so they could be out of form by the time of the interview. Of course you could offer MikeH a cut of any winnings in return for the inside track and see what he says
 
Hacker Khan said:
I see in the latest mag you have interviews with both Zach Johnson and Shane Lowry, both conduced just before they won their respective tournaments at very big odds.

So don't suppose you could give us a heads up who you have lined up for interviews in the immediate future, just so we can get a bet on them?
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I was thinking exactly the same thing. The timing of the interviews and appearance in the mag at the very moment they've just shot to victory is frighteningly accurate. It's made even more scary by the long lead times that Homer mentioned. :clap:
 
its not as 'frighteningly accurate' as you might think, there is method and timings in publishing articles, some risk but usually a calculated one.
 
Hacker Khan said:
I see in the latest mag you have interviews with both Zach Johnson and Shane Lowry, both conduced just before they won their respective tournaments at very big odds.

So don't suppose you could give us a heads up who you have lined up for interviews in the immediate future, just so we can get a bet on them?
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I congratulated Mike on this a while back , i think it was Alex Noren at the Nordea masters or something then coulda been Miguel , i cant be 100% , looks good anyhow :D
 
I thought exactly the same thing as I read through Lowry and Johnson's interviews. GM have nailed it this year!
 
bladeplayer said:
I congratulated Mike on this a while back , i think it was Alex Noren at the Nordea masters or something then coulda been Miguel , i cant be 100% , looks good anyhow :D
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TheCaddie said:
I thought exactly the same thing as I read through Lowry and Johnson's interviews. GM have nailed it this year!
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:thup: that's more like it appreciating the editorial genius! :)
 
Ever thought they might simply interview a huge number of Pros and only publish the ones that are subsequently successful - and readers are likely to be interested in reading about?

:rolleyes:
 
Foxholer said:
Ever thought they might simply interview a huge number of Pros and only publish the ones that are subsequently successful - and readers are likely to be interested in reading about?

:rolleyes:
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I'd have thought not as if you promote on the cover an interview with the Open Champ, then I think a reader would kind of expect the interview to include said person talking about winning the Open Championship. So if the policy is to stockpile interviews and then publish them when they win something, but that means they never talk about the main thing anyone is interested (i.e. wining The Open) as the interview is several months old, then that policy may soon backfire.

Nothing the mag can do if an interviewee they were going to publish suddenly wins relatively unexpectedly. But if they wait till they win anything to then publish then I'm not sure about that. But then again what do I know about it?;)
 
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I don't think that the Zach Johnson piece represents any kind of Nostradamus style precience.

It's a cut and paste job taken from a golf.com staff writer with Getty image pics. Pretty standard filler copy. Not that it's anything underhand, just the way these things work.

As for the Lowry piece, if you read it carefully it's a merging of an interview done earlier in the season when pretty much all the press (and some youtube pros) got to spend some time with him at Bearwood lakes with a piece from 2009. Added in with some editorial (but not interview) done since the bridgestone win. He did some podcast stuff post-bridgestone with golf weekly, so there's a few things in the public domain that can be used to make it look up to date...

Of course, I might be completely off beam, but lets employ a little healthy cynicism here....You'll be thinking that all those kit reviews by GM member on freebies are printed verbatim next....
 
Well all you realists can believe that the team splice together pre existing content with the latest available information to draft relevant 'in the moment' articles based on recent events.

I however will continue to believe that Mike and the team have either
a) the ability to predict the future and supplement their salaries with copious winnings from golf betting and that Mike is really a billionaire playboy who passes the time as a magazine editor
b) they have constructed a Delorean and travelled into the future where they finally do have hoverboards and have purchased a copy of the 2000-2050 Sports Almanac which they use in team meetings to identify the best people to interview

:)
 
pendodave said:
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As for the Lowry piece, if you read it carefully it's a merging of an interview done earlier in the season when pretty much all the press (and some youtube pros) got to spend some time with him at Bearwood lakes with a piece from 2009. Added in with some editorial (but not interview) done since the bridgestone win. He did some podcast stuff post-bridgestone with golf weekly, so there's a few things in the public domain that can be used to make it look up to date...
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Yes. I failed/forgot to mention the other aspect of a Pro's commitments to the press, both before/during/after their day's work at tournaments or as special events outside circuit time!
 
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