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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
I’m back in Kansas, and I’m walking on air following the VGCSA Fall Conference. Yes, it was cool to be the keynote speaker, but it was also great to be Read more»
1. It’s a small world after all While Steve Galperin (right), North Coast Media’s VP of finance and operations, was golfing in Orlando he saw our old friend Bob Cook (left), superintendent at Walt Disney World Read more»
Superintendent // Granite Links GC at Quarry Hills, Quincy, Mass. Only Pinehurst Resort has the 91st Hole. What can I get you? Nothing fancy, how about a ginger ale? What’d you Read more»
The 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 Read more»
Christian Baldwin, Ph.D., and Jordan Craft at Mississippi State University are giving a presentation at the inaugural Deep South Turf Expo this month, and they’d love some feedback on how Read more»
Sad news out of Cincinnati today: Terry Frey, 68, longtime superintendent of Beckett Ridge Golf Club in West Chester, Ohio, was killed when his maintenance vehicle was struck by a Read more»