YouTube Chris Como became one of the most famous golf coaches on the planet on Saturday when Tiger Woods announced that he hired him as a swing "consultant."
Only the hardest of hardcore golf nerds knew who Como was before Tiger announced the hire. He's a 37-year-old based in Plano, Texas who's finishing a Master's degree in biomechanics at Texas Woman's University. The three professional golfers he has worked with — Aaron Baddeley, Trevor Immelman, and Jamie Lovemark — are hardly household names.
Golf Digest put him on their "Best Young Teachers" list in 2014, noting that he charges $1,500 for a half-day lesson at Gleneagles Country Club near Dallas.
Como is regarded as a sports science expert. His biomechanics degree has involved co-authoring a paper called, "Assessment of planarity of the golf swing based on the functional swing plane of the clubhead and motion planes of the body points."
That's basically all that the golf world knows about Como, and some people around the game are leery that this is the right move for Tiger.
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