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About Seth Jones
Seth Jones, a 25-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.
Posts by Seth Jones
Superintendent// North Jersey CC, Wayne, N.J. After 18 holes of golf, what’s your drink of choice? A nice, ice-cold light beer. The kind with ice on the pint glass, and Read more»
I had the pleasure of meeting Billy Casper a few years ago. We had lunch together at the Billy Casper Golf annual meeting being held in Tampa. He was a Read more»
Congrats to Dr. John Street, who was presented with the Ohio Turfgrass Foundation’s Lifetime Membership Award in recognition of his 35 years of service as a teacher, researcher and mentor. Read more»
After four years working as GCSAA’s Field Staff representative for the Great Lakes region, John Miller, CGCS, is heading back to work with the LPGA. This time around the job Read more»
Congrats to GCSAA’s longtime employee Penny Mitchell, who is retiring from the association after nearly 30 years. And congrats to soon-to-be former GCSAA Great Lakes Region field staffer, John Miller, Read more»
Introspection isn’t my specialty, but it seems like lately I’ve been doing a lot of it. ¶ It’s surely the new year that has me pondering the past, present and Read more»