Chris Como Discusses Tiger Woods' Golf Swing Evolution

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00:00Chris, when you get that phone call, first off, were you expecting it and did you have

00:04a relationship with Tiger at the time?

00:06And I guess how did you guys get set up?

00:08I had a relationship with Noda, the gay.

00:11Yeah.

00:12And he had kind of followed my career a bit in Dallas, and he just felt like we would

00:16hit it off.

00:17So he facilitated a meeting between us.

00:20We had a meeting and we end up, you know, we're supposed to be kind of like a quick

00:24whatever introduction, we end up sort of talking golf swing.

00:27I had my laptop, we looked at swings and talked golf swing for, I don't know, close

00:32to two hours.

00:33I mean, how nervous were you like going to this meeting?

00:37I was really nervous going into it.

00:39But then once we started talking golf swing, it was just like, that's sort of like my my

00:43space, right?

00:44So I kind of like, I fell into the zone with it.

00:47And we were just like riffing off each other.

00:49So it's pretty cool.

00:50It's actually, it was quite fun.

00:51So once like that initial nerves, sort of like got shaken off, you know, you're seeing

00:55the flow of it.

00:57And then I, I, that segwayed into a second meeting.

01:04Yeah.

01:05Well, what you realize quickly, Chris, is that Tiger is a golf geek, right?

01:09And you're just like, well, okay, I can talk to that.

01:11I can do I can talk to this guy.

01:13He loves it.

01:14He loves it.

01:15Yeah.

01:16So what was the first thing at that time that you noticed with his golf swing that you felt

01:22like that, that you would be able to help him with when you're just looking at where

01:27he's swinging at it in 2014, and then you talked about how you're looking back at old

01:32videos in 2000?

01:33Was he chasing to try to get back to more of how he used to swing the golf club at that

01:37time?

01:38Um, I mean, I felt I feel like, you know, 2000 is maybe the best invoice ever swung

01:46a golf club.

01:48And definitely the best he's ever swung it for him, right?

01:51Like, I mean, it's just it's so good, right?

01:53So but his body was obviously not the same body.

01:55So So to me, in my mind, as a sort of a rough kind of starting point, it was like, how do

02:00we get you to swing as close to that as possible?

02:04But in a way that your current body can do.

02:07So that, in my mind, was like, always the initial goal.

02:10And then obviously, you know, you get audible thrown at you, or you have to call all the

02:13balls thrown at you and things like that.

02:15What was what was his limitations at the time from his body standpoint?

02:19Could he move at all?

02:20Like, we started working like, I mean, it had surgery actually pretty recent, like the

02:25first meeting, I don't think he was he was hitting golf balls yet.

02:29I mean, look, it was he had had, at that point, he had already had a lot of surgeries and

02:35injuries.

02:36So there's, there's a lot of limitations, you know, you're up against it to try to get

02:41him to swing as close to that at 2000.

02:43And to me, when I say as close to that in 2000, I think, you know, my mind, it was more

02:48of like, what his hands and clubs were doing, and not clubs, hands and club was doing.

02:54And then how do you, because that, to me, is like, you know, how he would shape the

02:59plane of it, and there's a release pattern and things like that.

03:03And how could he move his body to sort of facilitate that in a way that wouldn't hurt

03:11his body going forward?

03:12Yeah.

03:13It's not so much moving the his body and his spine, his pelvis, like it was in 2000.

03:18That's like, you know, probably like just not on the table.

03:20But But how do you move the club?

03:23Like as close to back of the day as possible, but in a way this body could do.

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