Video Surfaces Showing Tiger Swinging Golf Club, World Reacts

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Since the source was the Tiger Woods Foundation Twitter account and Monday of World Challenge week usually means Tiger wobbles out to the range after a day of thrilling foundation board meetings, I'm going to assume it's real.

However, the golfer depicted has a noticeably wider stance and longer backswing, not to mention appears to no longer be a bench press addict, so I'll reserve full judgement until more definitive video surfaces.

Here is the Vine:


Much to Tiger's relief, Brandel Chamblee tweeted that he liked what he saw in the clip.



Chamblee went into further depth at GolfChannel.com where he considered the possibilities for instructor Chris Como.

What one will learn in studying the biomechanics of great ball-strikers is that there must be a lateral shift off of the ball in the backswing and a corresponding lateral shift into the ball on the downswing. This is imperative and very much what Tiger was doing until 2010. 

Staying centered or hanging left at address causes the club to want to go inside abruptly off of the ball and it takes great effort to avoid it. Hanging left robs a player of width in the backswing and flow and rhythm in the downswing. With Woods’ phenomenal hip rotation speed, hanging left caused him to get stuck - coming too much on an inside path - on the downswing and hence his sometimes overexaggerated over-the-top move to counter this tendency. With the driver, more often than not his clubhead path was way out to the right with excessive forward shaft lean, and to offset this his spine tilted away from the target to the point of pain.

If Como understands the way the bodies of the best players of all time moved and applies those principles to Woods, then his pupil has a very good chance of playing uninjured for the rest of his career and a very good chance of achieving his career goals.

Mercifully I missed Tiger's interview with SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio and Fan Club Southeastern Division co-chairs Brian Katrek and John Maginnes, but there was at least this insight into Como from Tiger in between the excessive giggling, massaging and general ego stroking:

Woods:  “It all started with Notah [Begay].  Notah has been a longtime friend of mine, ever since I was probably 11 years old.  We’ve been great buddies and I really respect his view and his opinion.  He knows my game inside and out.  He’d done some research, some stats and some other varying things about my game.  And he’s known Chris for quite a while.  They are both Dallas-based and he’s gotten to know him and he thought he’d be a pretty good fit for me.  I met with Chris and talked about some of his viewpoints.  I know I had a vision of my golf swing, where I wanted to take it and he was very in line with that which was fantastic.  And he’s been a really nice sounding board.  As I said it all started with Notah and his feedback.  He just didn’t want to see me get hurt anymore.  And he’s been through a bad back, he’s no longer playing the Tour because of it, and he knows exactly how I was feeling at the time and how difficult that was.”