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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
In this episode of Zoom Views, Seth Jones talks with Stephen Rabideau, CGCS of Winged Foot Golf Club, about tournament prep for the 2020 U.S. Open and the challenges the Read more»
Seth Jones explains why during the COVID-19 pandemic, he envies golf course superintendents, who still get to go to work every day at their golf courses. Read more»
In his June 2020 column, Golfdom Editor-in-Chief Seth Jones describes what it was like to compile the story celebrating Caddyshack's 40th anniversary. Read more»
Golfdom celebrates the 40th anniversary of the 1980 comedy classic with Danny Noonan and (most of) the crew at Bushwood Country Club. Read more»
In this episode of Golfdom‘s Zoom Views, Seth talks with Scott Ebers, CGCS, director of agronomy at Colonial CC in Fort Worth, Texas, to discuss the Charles Schwab Challenge, the Read more»
Golfdom Editor-in-Chief Seth Jones chats with Patrick Affolder, superintendent of McAllen (Texas) Country Club to see what makes him tick. Read more»