Golfdom EIC Seth Jones to deliver keynote at VGCSA Fall Conference

By |  October 13, 2015 0 Comments

Screen shot 2015-10-13 at 12.27.09 PMThe 2015 Virginia GCSA Fall Conference and Joe Saylor Golf Tournament takes place next week, Oct. 19-20, at Hermitage CC in Manakin-Sabot, Va. Golfdom Editor-in-Chief Seth Jones will be delivering the keynote address, and other speakers include Virginia Tech’s David McCall, Ph.D., Erik Ervin, Ph.D., and Shawn Askew, Ph.D.; Elliott Dowling, USGA; Rafael Barajas, CGCS, GCSAA; and Derik Cataldi, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.

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Jones will be making a presentation that delves deeper into issues Golfdom has been covering in recent months. Topics include WOTUS, propane mowers, online tee time brokers, soil moisture meters and the average retirement age of superintendents.

“I’m honored to be asked to give this presentation to our friends at the VGCSA,” Jones says. “We have a lot of loyal readers in Virginia, like we do across the country, and it’s my hope to bring the magazine to life for the attendees by giving them additional insight into the many topics we cover each month.”

Sponsors of the event include Landscape Supply Inc., Syngenta, Turfgrass Inc., Trinity Turf Inc., Genesis Turf, BASF, Sunbelt Rentals, Riverside Turf and Lebanon Turf.

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About the Author: 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.


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