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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
From products that help save the earth to products that help save money — it was all at the 2016 GIE+Expo show. After a one-year break (or maybe ban, who’s Read more»
Surprising all the pundits, Donald Trump has won the presidency. What does having a multi-course owner in the White House mean for the industry? Election Day 2016, Hillary Clinton versus Read more»
I see a lot of golf courses in a given year. Sometimes I have the camera out, sometimes I’m focused on the experience and leave it in the rental car. Read more»
About a month before the election, an email went out to all the editors-in-chief at North Coast Media. The email, from our editorial director, asked: “What is your plan for Read more»
Woody Moriarty // Superintendent // Blue Hills CC, Kansas City, Mo. Woody, what can I get you? Jim Beam and Seven, tall. How do you spend an ideal Saturday? I Read more»
It’s 9 a.m. on a Wednesday, and already the music can be heard from the parking lot. Right now, it’s Alt-J’s “Left Hand” pumping through the speakers. “With your left Read more»