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If you missed the first installment of the P.A.T. (Player Ability Test) Project with CJ D’Arco you should know that CJ is a young aspiring assistant pro at a neighboring club who, in order to gain status in the PGA of America, must pass the playing test by shooting somewhere in the neighborhood of 78-78 in a one day qualifier. CJ’s problem is that he hasn’t been close to breaking 80, but has made some progress (and has broken 80 a few times) since our first lesson about 6 weeks ago. Here you see why CJ has had such a rough time of it: he has developed a bizarre transition move in which his wrists twist the club into a violently laid off position while completely uncocking, making his approach to impact so wide that he can hardly hit down on an iron shot without hitting behind it, while losing copious amounts of power with his driver. He is at least 2 irons shorter than most of the people he plays with, even though he is a strong kid and has excellent pivot movement. Even his driver suffers from an acute loss of power, so we are hoping that once the changes kick in he will pick up distance in every part of his game. To incorporate changes as major as the ones we need it will take a lot of drilling, so you see me here giving him various segment (stop and go) drills to break up the bad patterns and get him to be able to focus on what his hands and wrists are doing in transition. The one swing here that shows a tremendous amount of promise is the one without the ball in front of it, but as you will see he is sneaking up on getting the hands more forward of the ball at impact.