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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
Being in Dr. Ken Diesburg’s turf classes at the University of Illinois-Urbana can be hard. Rock hard. Hard as concrete. Diesburg says his favorite question to pose to students — Read more»
By Curt Harler Whether you are in dry Phoenix where, ironically, rainfall was above normal this year; or in droughty Illinois, where turf suffered through the summer, odds are good Read more»
You may have noticed you’re seeing less clutter in your email inbox from your friends at Golfdom. Well, that’s intentional. It’s not that we don’t want to write to you Read more»
The golf and growing seasons are winding down in much of the country, while in southern locations, the primary golfing season is just getting cranked up. Up north and in Read more»
Do it now…in the Fall. That’s the response from Karl Guillard and the agronomic team at the University of Connecticut/Storrs to this month’s Quick Agronomic Question. Given budget limitations on Read more»
The best way to send insect samples to your local extension entomologist is to dunk them in a large bottle of Makers Mark or Woodford Reserve. Aside from his jesting Read more»