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The 19th Hole: Scot Dey

By |  February 16, 2017 0 Comments

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Scot Dey

Superintendent // Mission Viejo (Calif.) CC

Scot, what would you like? What is their IPA on draft?

Tell me about your family. Steph and I have three kids. Emery is 6, Amelia is 3 and Eve is 9 months.

Give me some Mission Viejo CC trivia. The club was built in 1967, this marks its 50th year. The club has ties going back to the late 1800s with Rancho Mission Viejo, when it was being ranched by cattle herdsman.

What are your sports teams? By default, I’m a University of Arizona Wildcat because of my wife. I grew up a Dodgers fan — saw Kirk Gibson’s home run in person — but I haven’t maintained my loyalty.

Did you make any new year’s resolutions? I’m going to buy an alarm clock and start charging my phone downstairs. I found this little 15-minute YouTube clip about the Millennial generation… it smacked me in the face about how plugged in and connected we are. I’m not of that generation, but it was one of those eye-openers because when we pick up the phone we get sucked in.

You spent six months working in Japan. What was that like? I graduated college and a week later I was on a plane to go work for Micah Woods and a company called ETS. I remember when the plane was landing, looking down and seeing cars driving on the other side of the road and realized I was in for a major learning curve. So Micah is supposed to meet me in the airport, but instead he has Steve Wilson (the equipment manager) meet me and he tells me I’m driving back to the house by myself because he’s flying home, here are the keys. So now I have a 2-hour drive back to the house — by myself — and have to figure my way out of Tokyo to get there. Well, Micah was off to the side watching the whole thing unfold. We all had a laugh and that set the tone for a great learning experience. I had my own golf course with a translator for a short time and worked an international tour event. There was a lot I learned that I still hold with me today.

You mentioned you met your wife on the beach. What’s that story? I used to ride my bike on the boardwalk in Newport Beach all the time. I saw her from a distance and could tell she was going to cross without looking both ways… I thought she was cute, I could let her pass by or I could run her over. So I slammed on my brakes and caught her off guard.

Good thing you didn’t run her over! I asked her if I could borrow her towel to clean off my sunglasses. But I should mention that we both have different renditions of how the whole thing went down.

Photo of Scot by: Grant B. Gannon

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Seth Jones, a 18-year veteran of the golf industry media, is Editor-in-Chief of Golfdom magazine and Athletic Turf. A graduate of the University of Kansas School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Jones began working for Golf Course Management in 1999 as an intern. In his professional career he has won numerous awards, including a Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association (TOCA) first place general feature writing award for his profile of World Golf Hall of Famer Greg Norman and a TOCA first place photography award for his work covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In his career, Jones has accumulated an impressive list of interviews, including such names as George H.W. Bush, Samuel L. Jackson, Lance Armstrong and Charles Barkley. Jones has also done in-depth interviews with such golfing luminaries as Norman, Gary Player, Nick Price and Lorena Ochoa, to name only a few. Jones is a member of both the Golf Writers Association of America and the Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association. Jones can be reached at sjones@northcoastmedia.net.


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