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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

Bayer launches Specticle plus Fertilizer Posted on 23 Oct 2013 in the Industry News & Research categories.

Environmental Science, a division of Bayer CropScience LP, has launched Specticle plus Fertilizer – an innovative herbicide that provides warm-season turf managers up to eight months of residual control at Read more»

Course of the Week: Boca Woods Country Club, Boca Raton, Fla. Posted on 21 Oct 2013 in the Course of the Week categories.

Boca Woods Country Club is a 36-hole facility in beautiful Boca Raton, Fla. The club includes the Woods Course, designed by Joe Lee; and the Lakes Course, designed by Karl Read more»

About that cover… Posted on 21 Oct 2013 in the Uncategorized categories.

By now you’ve seen the cover of the October 2013 issue of Golfdom. Hopefully you had a chuckle. And hopefully you peeled right into the magazine, to check out our Read more»

Owls on Saturday, Eagles on Sunday Posted on 18 Oct 2013 in the Athletic Turf News categories.

He won’t call it “Hell week” because he’s done it so many times now that he’s gotten used to it. But Tony Leonard, director of grounds for the Philadelphia Eagles, Read more»

Syngenta to launch Velista in 2014 Posted on 18 Oct 2013 in the Industry News categories.

Syngenta announced today plans for the 2014 launch of Velista 50 WDG fungicide, a new tool for broad-spectrum disease control, for superintendents in the U.S. and Canada. Syngenta acquired key Read more»

Back from the road Posted on 17 Oct 2013 in the Uncategorized categories.

It’s been quiet around the blog these last few days. Apologies. With the new system, I’m not as savvy as blogging from my iPhone as I used to be. I’ll Read more»