1 – Where are you originally from? If not from Idaho, what brought you here?
I was born in Portland, Oregon and spent my first 10 years in St. Helens...just downriver from Portland. My wife & I moved our family of four (two elementary-age kids then) to Boise in 1992 from Southern California. My maternal grandparents lived in the Treasure Valley from the 1890s until 1917. I am the first of all my relatives to return to Idaho.
2 – What is/was your career occupation?
I started working for an international civil engineering firm in Los Angeles in several different positions including scientific computer programming. After 10+ years working in many locations, I started my own construction company. After our son was born, I decided to go back to university to get an earth science degree & credentialed to teach secondary education. When we moved to Boise, I taught math, earth science, and technology classes for a local high school until retirement.
3 – What is it about the game of golf that you love so much?
The people, history and outdoors!
4 – What made you want to volunteer for the IGA? When did you start?
I was working part-time at a local golf course after retirement. In spring 2009, my boss Jerry Breaux suggested I explore the IGA Course Rating program to give back to the game. He had been recruited to find volunteers by Russ Peterson who had recently moved to Idaho & participated in the rating program. I did and the rest is history.
5 – What do you hope to get out of volunteering for the IGA? What motivates you to keep coming back?
I have played every hole of golf in the IGA region as a result of being on the rating team. I enjoy golf and the people who play golf. No matter one’s ability, the enjoyment doesn’t diminish with time.
6 – What has been your favorite memory from volunteering for the IGA?
The many places I visited for USGA Calibration Training that I was fortunate enough to attend.
7 – What would you say to someone who is thinking about volunteering?
The golf courses are many and varied, plus the other volunteers and IGA staff are fascinating to get to know and share the rating experience with.
8 – What is your fondest memory on the golf course?
Playing first rounds with our then young two kids and then playing the many rounds with a great person who became well-known in the golf world…Tom Lehman.
9 – When were you introduced to the sport? By who?
My dad took me with him to a rural golf course in a small Oregon town called Scappoose in the mid-1950s.
10 – What is your home club? How often do you play?
RedHawk is my current home club...I work as an ambassador more than I play due to recent medical issues.
11 – What's something about you (a fun fact) that not many people know?
I managed several offices in Nigeria in the mid-1970s for my international civil engineering firm.
12 – Who would be a part of your dream foursome to play a round of golf with?
My dad, Jerry Breaux and Tom Lehman
13 - What has been your favorite golf course that you have played?
Several in Scotland, including the Old Course at St. Andrews...and whichever course I am playing/measuring/rating that day.
Bruce and his wife, Maggie, share a kiss on the beach in San Diego, California.
14 – Describe your golf game in six words
Many years and many, many shots.
15 – What's one item that you can’t live without?
Maggie...my wife of 50+ years.