Golfdom, November 2017

Keeping up with The Jones I PUT THE PEDAL DOWN TO MAKE SOME TIME As a thank you to the GCSAA chapter that responds with the most surveys I will road trip to one of your chapter meetings next year and personally deliver a keg of your finest local beer SETH JONES Editor in Chief In the garage where I belong G reetings from northeast Kansas where were happy to talk about Kansas City Chiefs football so we can pretend that Kansas University football isnt a real thing Youth soccer season finally has ended and now my 6 year old boy wants me to take him to the local par 3 course on Saturdays Im happy to oblige Thats so much better than barking orders at his kindergarten soccer team begging them to spread out and not play bunch ball Although I have about as much control over my own golf ball as I did that soccer team you told us is that your preferred method of learning about new trends and products are print magazines like Golfdom which is reassuring to say the least There were some other interesting takes but Im saving those details for next months issue where we will be unveiling our State of the Industry Report Along those same lines I recently emailed everyone with another survey to bolster the summer chemical survey and to get readers takes on a wider variety of The weather has been so nice here this fall that a few weeks ago I moved my home office to the two car garage I realize now that I may have gotten carried away It started out as a lawn chair and my laptop on top of a cooler a humble setup Now Ive got a desk dual computer screens a couch the 100 disc jukebox my kegerator and last week I mounted a 55 inch flatscreen on the far wall Meanwhile my 64 Impala is parked in the driveway staring back at me wondering if theres an outtopics This survey will be used to help us with our State of the Industry Report As a thank you to those who take the survey I will be giving away one Yeti cooler to a randomly selected participant and to the GCSAA chapter that responds with the most surveys I will road trip to one of your chapter meetings next year and personally deliver a keg of your finest local beer And of course I will enjoy a few with you The survey should be in your inbox right now or you can review it by visiting Golfdom com Well also post it to social media Facebook and Twitter so you can see it there Just look for the photo of me with the aforementioned Impala in what Associate Editor Grant B Gannon told me looks like a high school senior photo taken 20 years too late Coming in the January issue we will be celebrating the 90th anniversary of the launch of Golfdom by Herb and Joe Graffis We have a lot planned including a timeline of the magazine vintage advertising and new tales of Herb Graffis from those who knew him well Mr Graffis died in 1989 at age 95 If you have any personal stories or memories of Mr Graffis or any fun old Golfdom related stories in general Id love to hear from you please feel free to reach out My garage doors are always open Email Jones at sjones@ northcoastmedia net door winter in its future I dont know what Im going to do when the cold weather comes but for now Im living the dream I just hope my wife doesnt suggest I make the garage not only my office but also my permanent residence but if she did I would at least be comfortable Theres clearly no one point I want to make this month so lets get to the bullets Thank you to our many readers who completed our chemical use survey this summer One of the things 6 Golfdom November 2017 Golfdom com