"Lydia is just trying to find that right person to click with ... put it this way, if you were to get married, would you settle for second best?"
It's the media's fault?
There are plenty of golfers who've never let any coach, let alone four, tamper with their natural swing.
Jim Furyk's swing was once described as like "a one-armed golfer using an axe to kill a snake in a phone booth". Okay, but Furyk has earned more than US$67 million ($92m) in his career - only Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh have trousered more.
Bubba Watson, Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer are others who kept their home-made swings away from the technicians.
Faldo probably started the whole golf coach phenomenon. His use of swing coach David Leadbetter (Ko's second coach) saw him win his six majors - putting him 12th on the all-time list and in the top six if you strip out the pre-1950s winners (when golf was a different game). Faldo never struck problems with his swing after that, though golf history is full of other well-performed professionals who re-modelled a perfectly good swing and fell into the hole they'd dug for themselves.
While the utterly human element of self-doubt plays a part, that rather curious phrase "I want to own my swing" has also been pulled out as justification.
Woods - who changed his swing twice - was first to use it, in 2005, when he moved from swing coach Butch Harmon to Hank Haney and later to Sean Foley. Ko used the same wording to justify switching from Leadbetter to Gilchrist.
You can't argue with Woods' 14 majors but more than a few think he would have eclipsed Nicklaus' record of 18 if he hadn't fiddled with his swing. Hell, Faldo went winless for three years after Leadbetter got his hand on the tiller.
We have to put all this in context: 11th in the world is hardly a disgrace and Ko's 18 months without a win is way shorter than Faldo's drought. But she needs to arrest the downward slide and what seems like either indecision or too much decision.
She hired Gilchrist to move her swing closer to the one she started with after Leadbetter helped her develop a draw instead of her instinctive fade.
So we don't know yet whether Ko will join the ranks of those who profited - eventually - from a swing change or those who didn't.
There are plenty who did not - New Zealand's Craig Perks won a big US tournament then promptly changed his swing. He did not win again. Australia's Ian Baker-Finch had a horribly public meltdown.
Germany's Martin Kaymer changed from a fade to a draw after winning the US PGA - figuring he needed a draw to compete at the Masters. Two years later, he had slipped from world No1 to outside the first 50. He recovered, winning the 2014 US Open, but is No82 in the world right now. The Masters still eludes him.
