Short game · Wedge
What is Scottie Scheffler's swing tempo?
Scottie Scheffler's 2024 The Players Championship wedge is a 0.74s backswing into a 0.28s downswing — a 2.60:1 tempo ratio over 1.02s from takeaway to impact. That is quicker through the backswing than the 3:1 ratio usually quoted for tour players. Timed by hand from tournament footage to 1/100 of a second.
0.74s
Backswing
0.28s
Downswing
1.02s
Total duration
2.60:1
Tempo ratio
The three marks
Every number above comes from these, and nothing else. Read off the footage by hand, in seconds from the start of the clip.
0.00s
Takeaway
0.74s
Top of backswing
1.02s
Impact
Source footage: 2024 The Players Championship, 4th. Raw marks: takeaway 3.8s, top 4.537s, impact 4.82s.
The shot
Scottie Scheffler, 2024 Players Championship: a wedge from the fairway on the par-5 4th in Sunday's final round that he holed for eagle, propelling him to back-to-back titles at TPC Sawgrass. Compact and ruthless: a 0.74s backswing into a 0.28s release, a 2.60:1 over 1.02 seconds.
How this compares to “3 to 1”
The rule of thumb says a tour backswing takes three times as long as the downswing. This one is 2.60:1, which is quicker through the backswing than that. Across the whole library the spread is wide enough that 3:1 is best read as an average of very different swings rather than a target any one player hits.
More hand-timed swings
Swing to it, don't just read it.
Elite Tempo plays this 2.60:1 as beats you can swing along to, then times your own swing the same way so you can see how close you got.