An eye on the GIE+Expo
I’m back from GIE+Expo in Louisville, Ky. It was a great show!
A bald eagle was on display at the Dixie Chopper booth last week at GIE+Expo in Louisville. Photo by Seth Jones
I love GIE+Expo because I know a lot of people there, but it’s not as hectic for me as the Golf Industry Show. Not as many meetings. (But a similar amount of drinking.)
I saw some sneak peeks at products that will be at the GIS in San Antonio. I’ll do a story in the next Golfdom to show you some of the cool new gadgets.
Also got a ton of great feedback on what we’re doing at the magazine. Always nice to know people are really out there, and they’re following along.
This GIE+Expo show was the biggest ever… hopefully the GIS will follow their lead, and start growing again!
About the Author: Seth Jones
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.
