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Robert Trent Jones II carries on the proud tradition of golf course architecture's most enduring heritage. For three quarters of a century the Trent Jones name has signified imaginative, well-crafted golf designs. Demonstrating equal degrees of creativity and business acumen, Robert Trent Jones, Sr. shaped the modern craft of golf course architecture.
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ROBERT TRENT JONES, Jr. Chairman, Master Architect In a career spanning more than four decades, Robert Trent Jones, Jr. has designed more than 270 golf courses in over 40 countries on six continents. RTJ II courses have won countless awards and accolades, been ranked among the best layouts throughout the world, and hosted tournaments on every major golf tour. >> Read more...
GUDREN SVANO NOONAN Assistant to the Chairman
DIANE PENSINGER Business Operations and Communications Administrator
BRUCE CHARLTON President, Chief Design Officer The fourth hole at Manchester Golf & Country Club in Manchester, Iowa, is a short par four that runs along a country road across from cornfields. Each of the nine holes was designed in 1927 by one of the club’s founding members. Local attorney Shannon B. Charlton designed number four. >> Read more...
JASON BLASI Project Architect Golf has played a central role in Jason Blasi’s life since—literally—the day he was born, when his father brought a set of golf clubs to the hospital and laid them in his crib. Jay began putting balls around the house in Madison, Wisconsin as a toddler. >> Read more...
MICHAEL GORMAN Project Architect As a teenager, golf course architect Michael Gorman was already captivated by the unique qualities he noticed in fairways and greens on golf courses located in different regions of the US. >>Read more...
SARA DAVIS Chief Operating Officer
REBEKAH FLORES Administrative Assistant
Southeast Office
JAMES SIMONINI, P.E. Director of Business Development Despite working for the pre-eminent golf course architecture firm in the world, Jim Simonini has no illusions about designing golf courses himself. His gift is in drawing out the dreams of his clients rather than drawing plans for bunkers and green surrounds. >>Read more...
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MARK VOSS Senior Project Architect
ASIAN PACIFIC OFFICE
MICHAEL KAHLER Senior Designer Managing Director, Asia/Middle East Born in Denison, Texas, Michael Kahler got into the golf industry for economic reasons—when he was nine years old. Kahler’s first job was mowing grass during a summer off from school, “The mower weighed more than I did,” he recalls. >>Read more...
GENELYN ALEMANIA Assistant to The Managing Director, Asia/Middle East
KL LAU Design Associate
TREVOR HANSEN Design Associate
DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION Services
FRED DOWNES Coordinator/Design Superintendent

“Golf course architecture is a bit like Renaissance painting, where a team of artists and craftsmen with varying skills might all work together to produce a masterpiece.”

— Robert Trent Jones, Jr.
Chairman and Master Architect

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