Thanks for the advice, guys!
I will have my father re-check the CG to make sure we can positively rule that out. I had suggested he make it a bit nose heavy a while back but am not sure if he did or not. I suppose I should have mentioned that we always have to land downwind due to the set up of our "field". There is only one approach direction available due to a highway being near so up wind landings are not possible.
We fly where we do because there is very rarely anyone else there and are not restricted to landing on a specific runway. Landings are NOT his thing which is why we do not fly at the club I belong to or the public field at Sepulveda basin.
At the club field, you either stick it on the runway or kiss off your plane. there is no kind of median strip either at the ends or along the sides of that runway and the sucker is lined with boulders to keep the 4X4 jerks off the pavement. It is kind of like carrier landing in a paved trench.
I know that once I get him able to land with confidence we can move to a nicer field.

Thanks again!