Off the tee · Driver
What is Cameron Young's swing tempo?
Cameron Young's 2025 Ryder Cup driver is a 1.19s backswing into a 0.28s downswing — a 4.26:1 tempo ratio over 1.47s from takeaway to impact. That is slower 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.
1.19s
Backswing
0.28s
Downswing
1.47s
Total duration
4.26:1
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
1.19s
Top of backswing
1.47s
Impact
Source footage: 2025 Ryder Cup. Raw marks: takeaway 0s, top 1.1905s, impact 1.47s.
The shot
Cameron Young has one of the most distinctive tempos in golf: an unusually long, patient backswing. Off the tee at the 2025 Ryder Cup, a huge 1.19s backswing unwinds into a 0.28s release, a steep 4.26:1 over 1.47 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 4.26:1, which is slower 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 4.26:1 as beats you can swing along to, then times your own swing the same way so you can see how close you got.