An early love of golf fashioned a career that started in engineering before moving into golf maintenance and surveying eventually embarking on a design career that is now 35 years young.
His experience spans from club master planning to developer led new builds, in a range of countries and continents.
During that time James has worked on commissions with such golfing luminaries as Greg Norman, Nick Faldo, Ina Baker-Finch and Graham Marsh.