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Tiger Woods chooses Chris Como as swing coach
Tiger Woods has announced that Chris Como will be his next swing coach.
Happy to have Chris Como consulting and working with me on my swing. I’m excited to be back competing.
— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) November 22, 2014
The announcement follows reports that Tiger has resumed hitting full shots after his latest bout with a back injury.
Who is Chris Como? Like former coach Hank Haney, Como teaches out of the Dallas, Texas area. Como, 37, is based at Gleneagles Country Club in nearby Plano. His former students include Trevor Immelman, Aaron Baddeley and Jamie Lovemark. Tiger parted company with former coach, Sean Foley, about three months ago.
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Zooch79
Nov 25, 2014 at 9:52 am
I think Woods just needs to get out and play more… Obviously he has been hurt, but I think that the reps are more important than any bio-mechanics insight. Of course another set of eyes is never a bad thing… He’s gotta be humble and go dig his game out of the dirt and recognize the game owes him nothing. Tiger needs his own little renaissance.
Mad-Mex
Nov 24, 2014 at 11:15 pm
What a waste of talent,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, am talking about all of those who are posting pro and against,,,,,,,,,,
rockflightxl1000
Nov 24, 2014 at 8:24 pm
Tiger is fu&#in hero in my eyes. He’s done more for promoting the game than anyone in history. I hope he comes back breaks Jack’s record and washes away all the historical stereotypes of golf.
Nothing
Nov 24, 2014 at 8:45 pm
He actually has done NOTHING to promote it.
More
Nov 24, 2014 at 8:55 pm
But he’s done everything to make everybody dislike him as a person.
aj
Nov 24, 2014 at 8:59 pm
tiger is a stud still my favorite player on tour
Dpavs
Nov 24, 2014 at 4:31 pm
Doubt this will make any significant difference…. but hey Como gets a paycheck, so it’s all good.
Golfraven
Nov 24, 2014 at 3:44 pm
Is this what inspired Tiger http://youtu.be/8LPw7mFE-eU ?
Chris Como – Golf swing with no ground force reaction
Waqar
Nov 24, 2014 at 3:33 pm
I agree with Phil, tiger plays inferior equipment. It took a young guy like a year to tweak the clubs to his liking. His irons are still made by Muira. How many majors did tiger win with a method putter? And how many did he win with a Scotty? But tiger seems to be more interested in the money Nike pays than winning another major.
Rich B
Nov 24, 2014 at 6:09 pm
Hey Waqar, I believe you misspelled your name right: Wanqar.
JL
Nov 25, 2014 at 1:04 am
OK, so the tour just magically got more popular.
Viper
Nov 24, 2014 at 3:12 pm
El Tigre should hire Rory. ha ha.
24 Handicap
Nov 24, 2014 at 11:15 am
I hope Tiger comes out and just flat out kills it. Would put all these negative people to rest. Lets go Tiger, you’ve still got fans big guy!
CD
Nov 24, 2014 at 10:54 am
But Tiger already knew how to play golf at age 24 when he/warner bros wrote ‘How I play golf’. Given his age at the time there is more than a fair chance that it was one of Mr Como’s first ever golf books.
Dave S
Nov 24, 2014 at 9:25 am
Everybody on this thread wishes they were Tiger. The hate is hilarious. Just be happy you were alive to watch the GOAT play golf.
James
Nov 24, 2014 at 8:39 am
Lee Trevino said it best, “What are you letting anyone look at your swing for? You’re Tiger Woods!” Tiger could probably do better himself than with a swing coach. All the best players ever know their swing and tendencies better than anyone else ever could. They also know how to adjust within their swing model. Tiger seems to be seeking some swing nirvana that doesn’t exist.
Sanddog
Nov 24, 2014 at 11:26 am
Lee Trevino also said another related thing best. When asked if he would consider hiring a swing coach, he replied, “I’ll hire one, if I find one who can beat me.” Hard to argue.
Bill Cosby
Nov 23, 2014 at 10:34 pm
“Tiger you don’t need a swing instructor, Take this pill, it will cure all your swing problems”
slimeone
Nov 23, 2014 at 4:37 pm
Should have hired Jack Nicklaus!
Tomar200
Nov 23, 2014 at 4:01 pm
Boy this could be a disaster!! Chris is fascinated with biomechanics, torques and force vectors in the kinetic chain of the hand plane. Last thing Le Tigre needs in my opinion. He needs feels and mental pictures and get back to scoring. Paralysis through analysis
Jon
Nov 23, 2014 at 4:12 pm
I would stick with Perry Como.
Andrew Cooper
Nov 23, 2014 at 5:23 am
“…former students include Trevor Immelmann, Aaron Baddeley and Jamie Lovemark.”-respective OWGRs 432nd, 224th and 442nd.
marty
Nov 23, 2014 at 8:55 am
Just keeping it real. Lolololol.
Ponjo
Nov 23, 2014 at 4:51 am
Should have been a big boy about it Tiger and looked at where it went wrong. Butch and Hank had you playing your best. Let what happened in the past stay in the past, serve up a generous portion of humble pie and everyone is a winner.
Bobby Bottleservice
Nov 23, 2014 at 1:11 pm
shut up, you suck at golf
David Hearn
Nov 23, 2014 at 6:47 pm
What an intelligent comment. I hope you didn’t hurt yourself.
Bobby Bottleservice
Nov 25, 2014 at 1:46 am
lick my grundel bro
Hit
Nov 24, 2014 at 2:12 am
BB…….. is that you, Eldrick?
RG
Nov 23, 2014 at 2:39 am
Poor Tiger, so many swing coaches, so little time. I guess the search goes on.
Twit
Nov 23, 2014 at 2:20 am
Why’s he need somebody to look at his swing so much? Doesn’t he have it by now to just go out and do? Again, he’ll be playing swing and not play golf. Why doesn’t he just admit that he’s done. He’s obviously lost his concentration or any interest in the game now, that he needs somebody there all the time to help him along, the poor lonely bugger. He’s fooked it all right up, hasn’t he, eh? No good coach, no good caddie, no good friends, no good wife. He just needs to go head to the mountains and meditate and also see a shrink and lock himself up inside the house and stay out of the media’s eyes, silly twonk, other than coming out to play.
Kyle
Nov 23, 2014 at 2:48 pm
Now that we all know you suck at golf and life, let’s get on with it.
Fail
Nov 23, 2014 at 6:56 pm
Takes one to know one, it is said. You must know what it is to be a failure very well
8thehardway
Nov 23, 2014 at 1:57 am
Another case of Tiger wandering into his local driving range and signing up for the Birdie package instead of listening to us.
Booger
Nov 22, 2014 at 11:53 pm
Won’t matter. He’s done.
Kyle
Nov 23, 2014 at 2:49 pm
Yeah just like he was done last time. Millions of dollars and several wins later here we are again. Tiger haters are the worst
Josh
Nov 22, 2014 at 10:33 pm
Wow that list of past students looks really … Ehh … Weak. Besides Immelmann beating woods in the 2008 masters…what shows this coach’s effectiveness at leading players to the skill and mental toughness that tiger is so desecrate for at the moment??
Phyllis
Nov 22, 2014 at 10:12 pm
Tiger should hire 2000 Tiger as his swing coach.
Johnny
Nov 23, 2014 at 10:10 am
2000 Tiger would say..can’t help you 2014 Tiger, you’re knee can’t handle my 2000 swing anymore..
Bob
Nov 22, 2014 at 9:21 pm
I guess my résumé got lost in the mail…. Oh well
scott
Nov 22, 2014 at 9:06 pm
this is great news tiger is going to be back o form this year and maybe little rory should keep quiet when he real tiger is bck
Pat
Nov 23, 2014 at 8:42 am
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I hope this is a joke. Tiger’s done for. His chronic injuries have kept him sidelined the good part of the past few years and the trend will continue as long as he is still using steroids. Must be nice living in denial about the transparency of this situation.
J
Nov 23, 2014 at 12:26 pm
I hadn’t heard he used Steroids… Can’t you point out one piece of information that supports that statement…. Or are you just opening your mouth and spewing BS because of your failures at life? Just curious…
JL
Nov 24, 2014 at 4:30 am
People just assume because he clearly looks like he has built a lot of muscle mass that he has used steroids. Doesn’t matter that he hasn’t tested positive, when the testing employed by the PGA can find even an ineffective antler spray.
Pat
Nov 24, 2014 at 4:33 pm
LOL…I’ve accomplished more in my life than you ever have J. I have done long drive comps in Japan, am currently in the golf and fitness industry and make good money. As a result I have personal relationship with past pro athletes. Even if I explained how drug testing worked in pro sports, your tiny brain couldn’t comprehend it. No, actually your brain would shut down. I’ll keep it real simple. The drug testing on the PGA is a joke and the threshold of epi/test ratio is ridiculously high. Hgh and hgh inducing peptide testing is non-existant. The PGA would lose tons of money and sponsorships if they outed Tiger and some of the other guys that clearly juice. There was that nobody that got popped for using PEDs on tour a few years back. Of course you, the noob golfer have never head about this. I hope I dumbed it down for you, loser.
Johnny
Nov 23, 2014 at 10:20 am
Crystal Meth destroys a lot of careers and families. Please Scott, stay off it and get help.
scott
Nov 23, 2014 at 2:10 pm
Just a tiger fan here not a meth head and last time I checked tiger has never been caught using steroids so maybe mix in some proof there patty
Tyler
Nov 23, 2014 at 10:29 pm
Do you realize what would happen to the golf industry if it came out that Tiger was using steroids? I’m sure you could use your imagination. Take the 08 US Open for instance, how does a golfer playing at the hardest tournament in America win with a torn acl? It’s because he didn’t he was on the juice and had to fake an injury because he was getting suspended.
Kyle 2.0
Nov 24, 2014 at 1:16 am
Love all the Tiger hating saying he’s done. Everyone forgets 2013. Winning player of the year with 5 wins including the Players championship. Golf is better with tiger. Everyone should hope he gets healthy and plays well because it means more money and more publicity for the game of golf, bottom line.
Rob
Nov 24, 2014 at 1:29 pm
Wow is all I can say to that fact-less vomit of a comment. And by the way I think your mom is yelling from upstairs and says your pizza rolls are ready so whenever you want to come up from the basement they are ready and cooled off!!
Pat
Nov 24, 2014 at 4:40 pm
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was true, Tyler. They did that one segment on one of the shows on Golf Channel where a former Masters winner admitted he was on steroids during a short period of his career. Of course the majority of people here have their heads stuck in the sand and think golf is a clean sport, HAHA.
Pat
Nov 24, 2014 at 4:37 pm
Go talk to a pro athlete. Oh yeah Scott, you don’t know any. I have personal relationship with an ex-line backer and a former pitcher who pitched for the Angels at the AAA level. You people make me laugh with your naive/simpleton though process.
scott
Nov 24, 2014 at 5:01 pm
Sorry pat I am not friends with all the super stars in the pro leagues to be honest kinda jealous that you are friends with all the LA angles but I don’t see how you knowing the big league ball players is relevant
Dave
Nov 22, 2014 at 9:04 pm
I guess Dan Jenkins wasn’t available.
Barry S.
Nov 22, 2014 at 7:16 pm
I don’t want to be the one to say this but I knew Sean Foley was going to be a disaster the first time I saw him.
randy
Nov 22, 2014 at 9:03 pm
sean is a joke
Paul
Nov 23, 2014 at 12:03 am
And you, randy, are an idiot
phil
Nov 23, 2014 at 12:48 am
paul think you are right but tiger did have his worst results using foelys swing
Paul
Nov 24, 2014 at 1:21 pm
I can’t argue that, but to call someone a joke with the roster and results Sean has produced is plain idiotic.
Also, its not like Tiger and Sean worked together in his prime, lets see how Tiger does in the next couple years before passing judgement on Sean, thats all I am saying
Hobie
Nov 22, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Does anyone know what Como’s philosophy on the swing is? Is he more similar to Foley, Haney, Butch?
B
Nov 22, 2014 at 6:50 pm
Chris is more like Butch in terms of not changing a player’s swing, but instead tweaking the player’s own swing so he can play his best golf. However, Tiger really no longer ‘owns’ his own swing because Foley (in particular) changed Tiger’s swing to what he (Foley) wanted it to be. Hopefully Tiger go back to some form of his ‘own’ swing. Maybe he can…and if he can, that is what Tiger needs to do and then let Chris Como work from that point forward to tweak it. But, Tiger must be allowed to swing-his-swing (as Arnold would say), and ‘own’ his own swing. Maybe Chris can help Tiger accomplish that.
Hobie
Nov 22, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Thanks for that info. I was hoping he was more like Butch. Tiger needs to go back to his “natural” swing and Chris can tweak it where it needs to be tweaked. Foley did an almost complete overhaul on Tigers swing which was dumb IMHO. You don’t completely change greatness, you make small adjustments.
I hope the time off helped Tiger forget those swing habits Foley instilled in him and he goes back to playing golf and not golf swing. He was way to mechanical, he needs to be natural. Anyway, hope he’s at 100% and the partnership works out; Tiger is good golf and I love watching him play.
TW
Nov 22, 2014 at 8:14 pm
His philosophy is to try to save golfers who lose their way.. Ha
TA
Nov 22, 2014 at 9:00 pm
I’ll guess Hank… he used to work for him.
rog
Nov 22, 2014 at 6:22 pm
Break a leg Tiger.
Jeff
Nov 22, 2014 at 6:18 pm
Chris Como is gonna get a lot of support from the real fans and a lot of grief from the looky Lou’s. Until he gets fired, or does an obvious terrible job, I’m glad he’s on the team and that Tiger is going to be playing golf soon. Can’t wait for the Hero World Challenge.
Call me what you want, I just like watching the guy play golf and can’t see this as anything but a positive development in the story of Tigers return.
JC
Nov 22, 2014 at 6:07 pm
Choses? Anywho…
Wishing Tiger nothing but the best. Hope he comes back 100%.
other paul
Nov 22, 2014 at 6:55 pm
Ha ha. Choses. Had to enter that weird so auto correct wouldn’t fix it.
Todd
Nov 22, 2014 at 5:25 pm
Another young, wide-eyed kid walking into a trainwreck.
Steve
Nov 22, 2014 at 4:53 pm
Looked up Chris Como on the internet for his own tournament results for the PGA section of Texas. No results found. Looks like Tiger hired another coach who can’t break 80. Good thing he js studying biomechanics.
Shhhhh
Nov 22, 2014 at 4:55 pm
Chris does not make his living playing, he makes his living studying the golf swing. Having worked with Chris, I can tell you, it doesn’t matter what he shoots. He’s brilliant.
Ronald
Nov 22, 2014 at 6:05 pm
I’ve heard he does some really weird things. does someone who won 14 majors before trackman and all this other crap really need biomechanics?
Butch Haney
Nov 23, 2014 at 7:42 am
U worked with him at his part time restaurant job I bet….guys a loser
Steve
Nov 23, 2014 at 10:31 am
Just another example of a teacher who has no idea how to teach a feel game. I don’t care how smart you are, if you can’t play a lick it actually matters when teaching.
B
Nov 22, 2014 at 4:48 pm
Chris is a super nice guy, but I believe he in way over his head and he’s in for a HUGE surprise with the demands that Tiger will no-doubt put on him. Chris will be in Florida a lot, and all over the U.S., and very likely the world, whenever Tiger demands it. I feel very sorry for the members at Gleneagles CC because Chris’ main focus now will be Tiger Woods, and definitely not the country club.
Pat
Nov 22, 2014 at 5:58 pm
+1
He will essentially be Tiger’s beck and call *****. He’ll soon find out that misery loves company. I remember Haney having a rough time when he was Tiger’s swing coach. More money doesn’t always equate to more success and happiness and he will find out the hard way. Good luck Como.
Phil
Nov 22, 2014 at 7:12 pm
How would any of you guys know what Tiger would or would not need from Chris? Do we have some of Tiger’s inner circle here? Geez, some people just need to sit back watch what happens, good or bad!
Pat
Nov 23, 2014 at 8:50 am
In case you haven’t noticed, Tiger demanded the same things out of all his former swing coaches. In the end, they all parted ways because of time demands, clash of personalities, Tiger’s temper tantrums, and being his instructor took a toll on their lives. What makes you think it’ll be any different this time around? Tiger is a pain in the *** to work with because of his overinflated ego.
Knobbywood
Nov 23, 2014 at 12:12 pm
Yes being his instructor took a toll on their lives lol a massive bank account and fame toll… Poor guys
Daniel
Nov 23, 2014 at 10:14 pm
I’m sure Chris knows what he’s in for and doesn’t think this partnership will be like signing up a member for a 5 pack of lessons. One would hope he’s looked into the pros (money, fame) and cons (his time will be Tiger’s, media scrutiny) before joining Team Tiger….I for one hope things go well. Like him or not, Tiger is good for golf.
Rwj
Nov 22, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Wonder why he used twitter and not Jeter’s site?