Mike Gorman, ASGCA

Job Title: Senior Project Architect 
Company: RTJII Golf Course Architects 
 

Since joining the RTJ II team in 1981, Bruce’s body of work is as remarkable as it is global and he has earned countless awards and accolades. His more than 50 designs are in virtually every corner of the globe, including Chambers Bay near Tacoma, Wash., site of the 2015 U.S. Open Championship. Bruce joined RTJ II after receiving a degree in landscape architecture from the University of Arizona and went on to hone his skills under the tutelage of Robert Trent Jones, Jr. He is a past president and current member of the prestigious American Society of Golf Course Architects.

 

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GEO Certified Projects

Bruce was one of the lead designers for Hoiana Shore Golf Course which achieved GEO Certified Development status in 2020, making it the first Asia-Pacific to achieve this certification. The project regenerated a former fish farm into a world-class golf course intertwined with native habitats that had been lost for years. The site sits adjacent to a UNESCO World Heritage Village (Hoi An) which made it even more important that the course and landscape was authentic and true to not only the country but also the region.  

Key highlights include: 

  • Restored and regenerated over 23 hectares of degraded land into native coastal scrub landscape
  • 100% use of sand used in course construction was sourced from on-site
  • Planted over 1,500 new native and locally sourced trees on-site to integrate with the local landscape character

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