Exploring Coach Chris Como Motivation and Historical Insights

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00:00How'd you get started in this whole golf cycle of teaching?

00:04And where's your motivation stem from right from the get go and all this?

00:09Yeah, I mean, I think early on in my sort of career,

00:11I or my relationship with golf in general, I was really enamored

00:16with just coaching and then some of the swing stuff.

00:20And I always found it so interesting how there are so many books

00:24written about like golf instruction, and it's probably the like

00:27the most sort of studied sport at a very granular level.

00:31And I was like, I was like, this is OK, this is wild.

00:34But then also like how many different opinions there were.

00:37So I just looked at the whole thing and I obviously love playing,

00:40but the whole kind of like studying swing and coaching, et cetera.

00:43I just I was like, wow, there's there's obviously not a consensus,

00:47which makes things interesting, right?

00:48Because it's like, OK, there's clearly, you know, maybe sort of gaps

00:52in the overall kind of understanding or body of knowledge.

00:55If, you know, the foremost experts

00:57are so sort of apart from each other on their opinions.

01:01And yeah, I just know I graduated undergrad.

01:06I was like, you know, you have these decisions of like,

01:08do I go in this direction or do I go this direction?

01:10And, you know, I was very much in love with the game.

01:13And and and, you know, I just sort of decided

01:16I wanted to go down the path of trying to be a great coach.

01:18Chris, you know, it's kind of funny is how that, you know, back in the day,

01:21it used to be a lot of let's just say coaches would put out their own videotapes

01:28or even famous players would put out their swing feels of how they would do things.

01:33And this is how a lot of coaches learned or became,

01:38you know, enamored and trying to become a coach.

01:40Now there's all this data, you know, there's Instagram and all these things.

01:44But in the past, it was, you know, videotapes is how a lot of people

01:49would learn the game of golf.

01:51Yeah. Right.

01:52All like a lot of great players would put out, you know, their version of my way.

01:57I have a I had a bunch of videos of Nick Faldo with David Lebeder

02:01over at Valderrama, and they did this whole like and they did a second one also.

02:06But I mean, it was this is a quite a while ago.

02:08And it was it was great. It was awesome.

02:09And it was a lot of Nick Faldo's sort of feels what he was working on,

02:13things like that, which I actually think there's still a lot of value in,

02:17you know, really looking at a player

02:19and what their sort of experience of their swing is,

02:23even if it's maybe not air quotes objective.

02:26Like it's it's it's giving some insight to like, you know,

02:29how did they experience that particular motion?

02:32There's certain things that we can't measure like in the whole air

02:35coats, you know, new sort of era of measurement world.

02:38There's it's still we're still able to measure a very small percentage

02:41of what's happening. Right.

02:42And I think if you kind of like, I don't know,

02:45if you remember that old TV show, Columbo,

02:47if you kind of like sort of play detective and like really kind of listen to things,

02:50you can sort of pick up things and and somewhat fill up, fill in the gaps of stuff.

02:55You know, I really feel like as a teacher,

02:58one of the more like a really important window for me was like hanging out

03:00with Tiger and just kind of hearing his experience of his swing,

03:06say, back in 2000.

03:07So we would look at like a ton of footage of a swing back then.

03:10And then just like, how did he experience that?

03:12And that was just, you know, super illuminating.

03:15So I definitely don't think I think that sort of window

03:19where people had produced kind of their own experience of their game,

03:23I still think has a lot of value in today's era of like modern instruction

03:27with with data and Trackman and 3D, et cetera.

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