David James is a PGA golf instructor at Chaparral Country Club in Palm Springs, a private club in the heart of the original Palm Springs resort corridor that carries the midcentury desert lifestyle spirit of the club's founding era into a modern private golf experience. The club serves a membership drawn from the Palm Springs community and the broader desert residential population who value the traditions and intimacy of a smaller, more member-focused club over the scale and amenities of the large resort complexes. James's instruction at Chaparral serves members at every level with the kind of personalized, relationship-based teaching that smaller private clubs are uniquely positioned to provide — an instructor who knows every member's game, their history with the course, and the specific tendencies that show up when the pressure is real.