You will NEVER rock your shoulders again after watching this video…I know I will never rock my or turn my shoulders again when putting! This is an expectational golf lesson from golfing legend Costantino Rocca on how to hole more putts this year ion 2025. It surprised me how simple this made the golf swing!
I will NEVER Turn My SHOULDERS AGAIN after this lesson from a Golfing LEGEND ! (I TRUST HIM)
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to me, Constantino, don’t don’t practice like this because we’ve all been told by our playing partners that we’re putting bad because we’re flicking the wrists. So, we then try and keep the hands solid. Could there just be a chance that this is the wrong way? If you have your position in this way, you have to maintain. But for my opinion, this you can control more your distance. It felt so much easier. That feels like this sits in a little bit nicer. Whereas before he wanted to get too involved. Constantina rocker, a legend of the game and most famous for holding an incredible shows me a completely different method. But he don’t move this one. It doesn’t move like this. Yeah. Or or like this or like this. Data shows that mid handicap golfers lose more than four strokes per round when putting. So let’s make sure we both don’t do that this year. This is a tough put. So, what what do you think when you’re putting? Are you very much a visual putter? One guy said to me, “Every line is straight.” Okay. And it’s true because here we have uh 20 cm left. Yeah. And the body have to start there. Yeah. Is straight. Yeah. And going back to your famous pot that’s off the green. Is that what you saw the same theory there? an 18. That is a is another thing I on the tea I tell to my KD in the open. Yeah. To my if I put on the green I make two. Yeah. I have a bad bounce. The other way is on the green. And in my mind there is no four. No, there is two or three. Yeah. And it’s strange when you believe something and uh when I chip in, I try to chip in. No, no, no. And I try to make too perfect. Yeah. And I made the mistake. And then I got there, I see already the ball in inside the hole. I don’t know. Just got that feeling. That’s unbelievable. But I let another part like this in Japan in a in a ta and they have a part not 17 yard but a little bit less and they thinking the same thing in the hole. It’s unbelievable. It’s like super human, isn’t it? When you get that feeling. Nice. And and when you’re hitting this put now, are you just focusing on starting that ball straight and then letting the slope do the work? I I don’t have to work. I I feel when I patting, I move the pot with my hand, not with my shoulder. Okay. Interesting. Because when I teach when I teach, I say, you know, the the clock big clock with the AV bounce here. Okay. And they say which way you start this watch. Say it’s no. There is someone is like this but it’s a chain. No. Yeah. No way. Say here. I never seen the move. And then I say okay I tell you here. Yeah. Okay. And then what when you are in front of the ball and the pim this is the AV if I move this one you move the chain never start with the shoulder cuz most amateurs would say shoulders would they because I don’t say the teacher is not good or not no when when if you teach make a balance it start from here the balance not from here the other way I need you to have a look at my putting then because I reckon I’m This is going to be interesting. So, are you saying you feel it more in the wrist? So, your your grip on your left hand there was a little bit more in in the palm. Okay. Let me get that in. It goes the same spot roughly around here. So, that grip was a little bit in the palm like this. Okay. And then you you you’re saying like we need I need to feel more in the head the the the the hand but uh not the wrist. Ah okay. So like like this never I never if I move my hand and I feel my shoulder I can pat. Okay. I feel my hand and I leave this part move. Okay. If I have one meter you move like this the shoulder. You don’t move like this. You don’t move the shoulder. If you if you’re thinking you still here, you move the other way. Yeah. How many time you see the amateur? All the time. In fact, this one is there. You move. So I should This This feels like it stays still. Yeah. And then I feel it through here. The chipping. This one is here. Yeah. Okay. Ping straight to the ball for the driver behind the the iron is behind. So what Constantina Rocka is showing me here is where my sternum should be when putting. He says it should start on the golf ball and stay here as it stops the shoulders moving too much providing more control. Now we think about this logically. We’ve all had the idea of rocking our shoulders, but if you do this, it moves the point of where the sternum is. So having this idea of keeping the sternum where it is and feeling that you’re just moving the putter ahead like a clock, this really bizarrely keeps you a lot more stable. So set me a few puts. Okay, now feel your steel. Still just forgot to hit that. Perfect. Very good like this. I’m feeling it more in the club. You don’t heavier. No, heavier. Whereas in the past, I’ve been very much so bothered about moving my wrist too much, doing too. I feel like I’ve got this one. You know, if I move the wrist, I move like this. Yeah. If I move the hand, I move the hand. And the I move this one, the arm move, the shoulder is move. So that that’s all after that. But you don’t have to feel that. Feel relax. Okay. Sternum stays still. Yeah. Lay left. How does that look? Better. Not bad. But the club face, you don’t have to go to the hole, but here. Okay. It’s different sound. Do I go? Not again. It’s different sound. I know. I I I thin a lot of putts like cuz this whereas that sound is solid. Okay. You see it? Okay. Let’s go here. Don’t watch that one. You see you don’t feel. So I forgot the hole then. I was just trying to hit your foot. So for for remember when you go outside with the hammet or something like this. Yeah. You have to like this you do it or more. No that is the line you have to start there. If you thinking here. Yeah. You move. So so and then you you see after there. Yeah. Inside your shoulder is move perfectly with the rhythm. Not not mad. So, like all I’m thinking there is straight put and just keep this still and and and the rest of it take care of itself. Let’s go at your foot again. There. I like it. So, a couple more from here then. Would this be the same if you went a little further away? uh further away. I I move a little bit more the wrist. Okay, I’ll hit a couple from here and then the other one. The other one. The other way. I have to think. Let me Let me try and get one in here. Okay. Watch here on the club face here. It’s going through the hole. The club. Come on, Alex. better. Come on. That was the best one. Even that one is not bad. Would you say that’s why most amateurs miss low as well? Oh yeah. Yeah. Cuz it’s finding pushing towards the hole. You have to forget the hole. You have to That is okay. It’s not your fault is the hole is move it. That was really good. You see you don’t don’t go half meter there. You stay there. Yeah. So that’s really opened my eyes to that cuz I I’m thinking there swing towards your foot. Whereas I reckon most amateurs would be thinking right I’ve got to get it to the hole. swing to the hole and then that’s why they would miss low. You know there is a lot of drill to do it or something like this. But if you speak with the hammer Yeah. and or if you see the four we play together he say keep the head down. Yeah. Yeah. He’s down. Yeah. Okay. Here we But it’s much easy. Don’t say keep the head down. Keep that. This one is there. If you move your hand together, you there. Yeah, that was going in. That you there. Keep that down more. Watching this way, watching that way to teach. It’s not easy like people thinking. Yeah. You had to speak with the other people and not not everyone understand. No, 100%. And that that’s one of the hardest things when coaching golfers. I notice how you got your hand a little bit more around than mine. I’m going to try that in a second. Okay. Cuz this is a little bit more firm. If I do like this, I feel that’s what I think is Yeah. Yeah. Relax. I’m going to get that in there now. That means this is yours. Yeah. Too much copy of me. So, I’m going to try being more there. Yeah. Yeah. More there. Ah, that feels like this sits in a little bit nicer. Whereas before he wanted to get too involved. So, more under and this way. Okay. Oh yeah. Now, now the club face is going the right direction. That felt so much better. Yeah. You don’t feel No, you cannot go. That is the the is very important. Okay. That was so good. Just a little bit more left. Just a little. Yeah, that was a great P. Good. Can we have a go a few longer ones? I tell you, don’t move the shoulder. And your shoulder is moved. Yeah, but he don’t move this one. So, it doesn’t move like this. Yeah. Or or like this. Or like this. It’s crazy what you pick up listening to a legend of the game. What rocker is saying here that focusing on keeping the sternum still and moving the hands, you get the shoulders moving perfectly. And you’ll notice that mine are moving, but I’m not focusing on that. When you focus on rocking the shoulders, it causes them to move far too much. And then you move off the ball. It just moves. Okay. Long long back. is much easier for me you know say what they tell me because I go I’m not a good putter from 2 m no practice 2 meter he said to me Constantino don’t don’t practice like this because 2 meter you cannot miss 3 meter you can miss and they give you the good timing so 3 meter is like the perfect when you you when you are on the ping green before start or something like this. So will you do that before every tournament? Yeah, after you can practice the the one meter but then get that first you feel the the And why is that? Because there’s more bit of pace. There’s more flow to the strokes. Is that why? No, because even if you miss, you know, when you miss the pattern like this, you start Okay, I move that. Keep the head down. the So 3 m is the sweet spot in terms of like 3 m for me for the amateur 7 m. How many time you put the second shot? Yeah. Not many times put you have seven eight m you give the rhythm when you go on the golf course you have the rhythm. Yeah. It’s almost like practicing the putts you can have the most. No, but before you right we’ve chosen some put here by the way. Good. It was not bad. This one is that because would you would you look at this and go downhill? It’s easier to get it close than uphill cuz you’ve got got to think is uh what I learning if I have a p like this if I put two three feet is good path. Yeah, definitely. And the the only you don’t miss especially when you have fast green still short. So on a downhill putt, would you be always wanting it to go just past the hole to have an uphill bath? No. The the most important you can see. Yeah. You have to watch from the middle. You can see how much slope, how much uh distance you have on the hand. Yeah. If the the hole is going in this way, still going down. Yeah. If you pass the hole just at 20 cm and you go 2 m past is that Yeah. And on long puts like this, would you always would you walk up and down the putt to get a feeling of of of the length or or would you see from your eyes? My opinion is very important if you have a slope where the ball you have to start. Okay. And then you have to make with the speed you give make ball work. So you’re looking at the first slope how you get it to the first slope and then how it journey from there and then because on the handed the hole is going this way. Yeah. But if it is going right in the good feel the distance you don’t go too much right we try. Here we go. This is a master class here. Oh it’s lot. I think line I think line was okay. Line is not bad. Go on. I take it every time. And are you are you just really trying to are you picturing a spot on the top here you put into? Yeah. Uh and the the bully have to start there. And you use that was a beautiful noise. Are you using a little more wrist in that stroke? Yeah, a little bit more. And how do you feel that? Just a is it is it like just a little I don’t feel any any pressure. No, cuz I do like this. I don’t move. No, if I stay there. Yeah, I am there. Keep this one straight to the ball and then I move cuz I think I think golfers now want to be so perfect all the time, don’t they? They they get so tense and everything just moves and then you under pressure. What you thinking? Don’t move. Nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Wrong. You made a mistake, right? You made the mistake. When you thinking you want to control, you made a mistake. Okay. I mean, that’s pretty consistent. Well, it’s not bad. I can go play, right? So, a little bit weaker in there. That felt really nice. You the ball you have to start here. Okay. This is straight here. So, that’s straight. It’s low. Eh, it’s very slow compared we see downhill. Okay, maybe little bit less. Okay, here what Constantina Rocka means here with the statement every putt is straight is simple when you think about it. You just got to work out how far right or how far left you need to aim away from the hole and then hit towards that. The contours of the green will cause the ball to curve back. And this is the simple way to think about straight line putting. Was very not as good that one. this heel you s you block it. Yeah, I didn’t I didn’t hit that anywhere near as much. So, just to for everybody to listen there, two things I’ve taken away from that before this guy comes and jumps on is it’s always a straight put. Hit towards that straight put and then I I a little grip change for me that was was felt the position if you do like this. If you have your position in this way, you have to maintain. But for my opinion, this you can control more your distance. It felt so much easier. I felt less tension. Yeah. And then in the stroke or again it comes back to keeping this still and just letting this happen. Just letting that happen. Stay relaxed. Long part. Leave it. You can go towards. Yeah. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for that. I appreciate it. My pleasure.
 
 
 
  
  
  
  
  
 
30 Comments
Not to be negative or anything but I wonder how many monster putts one thought for sure would go in but didn’t.😮
A gambler’s thought process? Sure it happens every once in a while for anyone decent.😃
that's a very good tip. well, two very good tips.
Sorry, but some people are better shoulder putters and some are better with their hands. Depends on person putting.
My whole,golfing life, I’ve locked elbows to my side & let me wrists do 30% of the work with a casual swagger stroke…
I still make 99% of every putt inside 15 feet and pretty close to equal from 15-22 feet, with about 3 seconds of lining up my putt.
It’s truly amazing how simple putting actually is, however so many people make it so unbelievably complicated in their heads, and it shows.
I have a Ping Anser putter that I have used for over 40 years which I bought off a mate for a tenner. I've developed a putting style which is right arm dominant and the left arm merely comes along for the ride. Like Constantino my sturnam stays still. The grip of the club always moves forward after you strike the putt. I practice before a round for two thirds of the time just right handed. I'm as accurate one handed as I am with both hands on the grip.
That was a good guy! I liked his ideas on how to putt.
Outstanding lesson. Mr. Rocca seems a true gentleman.
Awesome advice, tips of how to approach putts
This theory should be tested from 4 to 6 ft to see the benefit.
Anyways, good with lots of practice once you get consistency, then it’s basically one to put it’s not science common sense. In the old days they used to always bend I believe Jack Nicholas used to do that for a time.
Lucky to have spent time with him, very cool .
Corey Pavin advocates the same lead hand position on the putter as Rocco showed you. I came across this hand position for putting about 1 month ago, and it really does make a difference. Now I'm going to focus on 2 things I've learnt from this video and the sand bunker video, viz the position of the sternum when adressing the ball. These videos with Rocco have been extremely educational.
Controlling the controllables, this makes sense. It's what golfers do.
This is exactly how I putt BUT I am stupid reading the lines!🥰⛳️🏌🏻♀️Regards from South Africa
This might be the best informative putting video I have ever seen, well done!!!
Interesting! Even though I'm a newbie in golf, I feel more natural to work with my hands than my whole body when putting. Still not perfect, but I can focus more on not holding my body but on the target and head trajectory.
Brilliant, cant wait to practice this method. It simply makes so much sense!
Why would anyone listen to you? You give all this swing advice and one conversation with one person and you are prepared to change how you putt. What’s next, someone says hold the Driver differently and you immediately change all your advice. Another YouTube fraud… 🙄
I putt with my back/shoulders.
Feet shoulder width, athletic stance with knees bent, pressure in heels, feel like I'm pushing my knees slightly apart to engage my lower back, lock my shoulders back to engage my traps and lats, hold the club still and GENTLY rotate. My entire back is engaged so it's very stable and controllable – for me. Not every technique is right for everyone 🤷
Every putt is a straight putt…. that's why Aimpoint works.
The last three videos you put out have been your best content! Thank you!!
a lot of the pro's in the 60',70'' and 80' have wrists putting. Jack was good at it.
Interesting with the hand placement. I recently put a Golf Pride Pistol reverse taper grip on my putter, and over the last couple of rounds I've found that it naturally puts the top hand in that position. Have been putting the best I ever have. Looking forward to having a practice with these other tips too.
I’ve putted the best when I felt like my sternum is over the ball (or putter head) but I keep seeing everyone saying to have the eyes over the ball. When I try to have my eyes over the ball (to be more “correct”) my putting starts to feel less stable. You mentioned in this video to imagining a string hanging from the sternum straight over the golf ball. Wouldn’t that move your eyes outside the ball (not straight down to the ball)?
Constantino was saying swing the head weight of the putter and it will dictate how your upper body moves, ie hands/wrists first, arms then shoulders, not from the shoulders down! Swing the weight of the putter!! Soft light grip pressure helps a lot in feeling the weight of the putter head swing! Jack used to say the same thing in his putting books.
Alex you might be able to relate to this. I used to teach Jiu Jitsu for years as a black belt instructor and one year I had the great pleasure of spending time with a 9th Dan Master and it was at this moment I realized I knew Jack Sh.. about martial arts😂, humbling but made me a better teacher for it!
It's crucial to 'release' the putter on downhill left to right putts to hold your starting line, if you don't release, ie toe beats heel in follow through, you will miss on the low side 99% of the time.
Maintaining a stable sternum is a consistent theme throughout this masterclass series! First class instruction, well done Alex on these videos, could watch you two for hours and hours.
Will try this, his bunker tip was incredible, I have never been as good from the bunkers and using his techjnique have not left a single shot still in the sand.
This is exactly what I think about when I putt.