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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
The John Deere booth had all sorts of activity. My friend Ren Wilkes, regional sales manager for Deere, told me the items that were getting the most attention in the Read more»
Greenworks Tools Senior Product Manager David Glueck makes short work of an Oak tree with a battery-powered chainsaw. Booths like Quali-Pro offered plenty of activities to keep GIS attendees around, Read more»
Let’s go Chief! At the Standard Golf booth, I saw my old pal Matt Pauli, who recently became part owner (along with all the rest of his co-workers) of the Read more»
I took a ridiculous number of meetings at the 2018 Golf Industry Show, there wasn’t a single block of time that wasn’t accounted for in my schedule. I had a Read more»
In December of 2010, I achieved a lifelong dream by being named the editor-in-chief of a respected magazine. I think many of you can relate. I studied to be a Read more»
Rees Jones likes to recall the good humor of Herb Graffis by looking back at one of the hilarious letters Graffis wrote to his father, Robert Trent Jones Sr. “This Read more»