Tiger Woods said working new swing coach Chris Como was like tackling new swing issues that are old.

Como, 36 is Woods fourth swing coach in his 18-year professional career is based in Plano, Texas, and teaches at Gleneagles Country Club. He is one of Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Teachers and is about to receive a master’s degree in biomechanics and has worked with Trevor Immelman, Aaron Baddeley and Jamie Lovemark in the past.

Woods had commenced his professional career working with Butch Harmon before switching 2004 to Hank Haney.  Woods then moved to Sean Foley in 2010.

“I was introduced to Chris this summer by Notah (Begay) and subsequently we had several good conversations about the golf swing,” said Woods.

I’ve worked with him about a month since I started practicing. Chris will consult and work with me during the year.”

But when asked today what difference Como will bring to his game Woods responded:  “Well, it is new, bu

Tiger Woods returns to competition for a first time in 8 months saying working with his new swing is ‘new but also old’.

t it’s old. When I say that ‐‐ because I haven’t done it in a very long time. We looked at a lot of video from when I was a junior, in junior and amateur golf, way before ‐‐ even when I came out there and had some really nice years where I hit the ball really well.

“We went back to some of those old videos and really looked at it. And it was quite interesting to see where my swing was then and how much force I could generate with a very skinny frame. How did I do that? How do I generate that much power? That’s kind of what we are getting back into it.”

And Woods was asked:- How significant is the change or adjustment, whatever you want to call it, that you’re facing right now?

He replied:  “Like I said, it’s new but it’s old. The reason why I said it that way is I just haven’t done it in a long time but my body is remembering it. The motor patterns, you develop all these different motor patterns in one’s career.

“It’s familiar, so it has not taken me that long to implement it.  I just need to, as I said, I need to hit more balls and get more reps, especially under competition, I want to see where it’s at. I’m very pleased with my speed and the freedom I have and what I’ve been doing with the golf ball.”

Q. And secondly, what’s the difference in your optimism now compared with when you came back at Congressional?

TIGER WOODS: Well, I just had hit driver for the first time the Thursday before I committed. I committed the very next day. I was going to ‐‐

Q, You referred to Chris as a consultant when you announced it. Does that suggest that it’s a different arrangement than you’ve had with your previous teachers?

TIGER WOODS: Yes, because I wanted to, I had this plan in my head of where I wanted to go and what I want my swing to look like and what I want to get out of my body and out of my game. I just needed to align myself with a person that felt the same way. Chris fits that for sure.

Q. Is it fair to say or would you say that maybe in the last couple years, you had gotten too technical and away from some of the naturalness that you had once enjoyed in your game and your swing?

TIGER WOODS: Well, I think that I got into ‐‐ just like I think a lot of people in this generation, the new information of TrakMan, and trying to get the numbers to jive and trying to get the motions to match. And I think that that’s been extremely informative because it’s helped me during this process, but it’s not the only thing I’m going to do.

“I still retain the feel in my hands and how I hit golf shots; but also I have an understanding that if I do something, these numbers should be like this. Because I didn’t have that understanding and I didn’t have that basis when I worked ‐‐ when I was going into working with Sean. So that was very new. That’s something that I think that is very helpful but can’t be the end of all things.”

Q. Swing changes take time, and obviously there was an adjustment from Butch

to Hank, and Hank to Sean. What’s the timetable on this?

TIGER WOODS: I don’t know. I don’t know. I’m curious to find that out myself, too. It’s going to be nice playing a tournament this week and getting a feel for being under the heat and see where my swing is, see what shots ‐‐ where my misses are; not necessarily my good ones.  I know my good ones are good. But where are the misses are going to be? Am I able to rectify them right away, or is it going to take a shot or two, or a hole or two? Or maybe I might not be able to do it at all and that might not be a good.

“But I think I have a good understanding going into Thursday what I need to do to hit certain shots and see what happens.”