James H. Grubbs, M.D., is a native of Fort Worth, Texas. Born into a golfing family, Jim played golf throughout his childhood and adolescence and was captain of the Paschal High School golf team. In 1965, Jim won the Fort Worth City Boys Championship and qualified for the USGA Junior Boys Amateur tournament.

As an adolescent, Jim worked for famed Texas golf professional Raymond Gafford at Ridglea Country Club. He also caddied during the pro-am and carried signs at the annual Colonial National Invitational golf tournament at Colonial Country Club, where he saw the golfing greats of the time, including Ben Hogan.

Rather than pursuing a career in the golf world, Jim went the academic route. He graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor’s degree in Russian Language and Literature in 1970. He enrolled in medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, graduating in 1974. After a residency in general psychiatry at the University of California-Davis and a fellowship in child psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut, he entered child and adult psychiatric practice. Over the past fifty years, Jim has practiced in several parts of the United States, as well as in New Zealand. He has worked in both the public and private sectors.

While taking lessons from renowned golf instructor Hank Haney, Jim reentered the competitive golf world and qualified for the USGA Amateur Championship in 1992, played at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio. At Haney’s suggestion, he also began working with young and old golfers alike on the mental side of the golf game. Jim has written three books on the subject.

Jim and his wife, Patty Moynahan, live in Austin, Texas. Besides playing golf and dabbling in vegetable gardening, Jim enjoys spending time with his son, two daughters, two stepsons, and ten grandchildren.