the instructor looked at me as we were climbing at 500 feet per second on final in approach config
That would be the Saturn V PA28, on steroids, then??
120 hours is not skygod but it's not beginner experience, either. Stop making excuses for him. That landing was bad in every aspect from short final onwards.
No, it wasn't bad.... it was APPALLING!
NO attempt to hold off.
Far too much power (it should have been at idle in the non-existant hold off).
Flat attitude on touch down, with no attempt to minimise ground speed.
NO attempt to hold up the wheel-less wing.
Stomped on the brakes and held them on even as the aeroplane departed the runway (due heavy one-wheel braking!) and did a 180 onto the grass putting loads of strain onto the RH u/c/ leg!
The feckin power on hard even after he'd stopped!
My cat could not have done it worse!