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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
Augusta National is a place where golf magic just tends to happen. One of those magical moments happened for me on Wednesday afternoon, hanging out with a group of friends Read more»
Superintendents at the 2019 Masters Tournament tell GolfdomTV how they know when their golf course has hit peak performance. Though coming from different courses, the four Florida turf pros interviewed Read more»
Editor-in-Chief Seth Jones reports from the gates of Augusta National Golf Club. During a busy Masters Wednesday he hosted the Friends of Golfdom meetup with 30 superintendents from around the Read more»
Ian Daniels Superintendent // Teugega CC, Rome, N.Y. Ian, what can I get you? A beer — something dark. Ithaca Beer Co. has some good options. Tell me about your Read more»
A sandstorm in California At Palos Verdes Golf Club, the bunkers now drain like a dream, but the crew still finds that they’re too often working in and around the Read more»
In December of last year, John Deere named Manny Gan as its director of global golf. Golfdom caught up with Gan at the 2019 GIS to learn more about his Read more»