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Nick is the son of Mark Cammarene, a PGA Professional working in the Palm Beach, Florida area. Nick works at Jonathan’s Landing, another nice club in the same area, and is contemplating making a career in the golf business. Working in the business is way more fun when you’re a good player, and Nick was struggling when Mark decided to bring him down. This is Nick’s second lesson, and while he was hitting it much better he was still struggling with control of his longer clubs. Nick is fairly tall and thin, and the pattern he shows here is quite common. By trying to make as big a turn as possible to gain distance his right arm and shoulder pull well behind him getting to the top of the backswing, so much so that the downswing actually starts with the upper body leaning forward, which is of course out of sequence. Nick’s backswing progression is to take the club well out away from his body up to left arm parallel, which makes the right side feel like it hasn’t done much up to that point, and from there the whole right arm and shoulder area pulls back behind the head. The end result is a jammed up approach to impact, and even though Nick demonstrates a wonderful release pattern as he rotates his left forearm and wrist into and past impact, he is so narrow that he has a hard time controlling the face. To help the situation I have him do stop and go swings with the takeaway more in toward the body with the right arm feeling like it stops at left arm parallel. The difference in both the backswing and downswing is considerable.