# The golf DP World Tour and the swing rhythm you can practice

Schedules and scores are on the tour's own site. The part of a tour swing you can practice is a steady tempo, and Striped measures yours.

By Nick, Striped founder · Published 13 Nov 2026

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The golf DP World Tour is a men’s professional tour. For its schedule, live scores and results, use the tour’s own site or the broadcast, since this page does not track them. The part of a tour swing you can take to the range is a steady tempo, and Striped measures yours with your iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch.

## What the golf DP World Tour is

The DP World Tour is a tour of professional events for men. Its players show up in published numbers as well as on the leaderboard.

The published tour averages in our [golf club distance chart](https://stripedgolfapp.com/guides/golf-club-distance-chart/) came from PGA TOUR and DP World Tour events, mostly PGA TOUR. They describe tour players, so read them as a picture of the tour. They set no target for your own game.

## Where to find the schedule and scores

To follow the DP golf tour, use the official site or the broadcast for the schedule and live scores. Check the dates and the host course there before you plan a trip to an event.

The [PGA leaderboards guide](https://stripedgolfapp.com/guides/pga-leaderboards/) explains what a board shows and what it leaves out. Every score on it counts strokes. The board never shows the rhythm inside each swing.

## Why tempo is the part you can practice

You cannot copy a tour player’s strength or length. Tempo is a ratio of times, not how fast you swing, so it fits any swing speed.

Tempo is your backswing time divided by your downswing time. At 3:1, the backswing takes three times as long. A ratio near 3:1 is a common tour norm for full swings.

That norm describes how tour players swing, and it is no promise of a better shot. [Grober and Cholewicki’s preprint on golf tempo](https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0611291v1) describes tempo as “relatively insensitive to the length of the shot” and calls it a “biomechanical clock” for the swing. A ratio that stays steady from swing to swing can help your contact.

## Hear a tour pace before you swing

Striped’s metronome plays three tones in your AirPods, for takeaway, top and impact. Its Tour pace plays 800 ms back and 267 ms down, a 3:1 split. Short Game plays 533 ms and 267 ms, and Putting plays 600 ms and 300 ms, both 2:1.

*Figure: The Tour, Short Game and Putting paces in Striped's metronome, on one time scale.* Three bars on one time scale, each split into a backswing and a downswing. The Tour bar's backswing is three times its downswing, while the shorter Short Game and Putting bars split two to one.

Tour keeps a 3:1 full-swing split, and the two short paces keep 2:1.

So the full swing and the short game keep different ratios. Hear each pace in the [free web metronome](https://stripedgolfapp.com/metronome/), then pick the one that feels like your own swing.

## Keep the tones off the course

The tones are for practice only. [The R&A’s Rule 4.3](https://www.randa.org/rog/the-rules-of-golf/rule-4) does not allow audio that helps with swing tempo during a round.

[The SCGA’s guide to audio equipment and the rules](https://fore.scga.org/know-the-rules/now-hear-this-audio-equipment-and-the-rules) explains that the rule covers the round itself, with no restrictions before or after it. So keep the tones for the range and your practice sessions.

## Practice the way you play

Watching a world tour of golf is a good prompt for your next bucket. Pick one habit, such as tempo, and give it a block of the same shot.

Dr. Greg Rose of TPI says in [GOLF.com’s guide to the best way to practice](https://golf.com/instruction/best-way-practicing-get-better-quickly/) that blocked practice helps with technical changes. Random practice, with different shots and targets, is his pick for getting better faster.

So groove your tempo with the metronome first. Then play a hole you know in your head, with the metronome off, and see whether your ratio holds. The [driving range practice plan](https://stripedgolfapp.com/guides/driving-range-practice-plan/) splits one bucket into blocks like these.

## How your tempo moves from session to session

Striped times every swing, so you can follow your ratio from week to week. Across 11 irons practice sessions, the session averages ran from 2.25 to 3.05, with a median of 2.85 (example data from 11 practice sessions). Six of the 11 sessions sat inside the app’s target band of 2.8 to 3.2.

| Measure | Ratio |
|---|---|
| Lowest session | 2.25 |
| Middle half | 2.63–3.03 |
| Median session | 2.85 |
| Highest session | 3.05 |

Example data from 11 practice sessions. The average tempo ratio of each irons session, timed at the hands by Apple Watch. Measured with Striped.

Read the spread as well as the average. Inside a session, the median swing-to-swing spread was 0.21 (example data from 11 practice sessions). A small spread shows a rhythm that held from one swing to the next.

## How to check your tempo in Striped

Striped works with your iPhone in your front pocket, AirPods in your ears and Apple Watch on your lead wrist. Striped times your hands. Apple Watch finds the top where your hands reverse.

1. Put your iPhone in your front pocket and your AirPods in. Wear Apple Watch on your lead wrist.
2. Open Profile → Devices. It shows whether your Apple Watch is ready.
3. On Practice, choose Irons. Add a metronome pace if you want one, such as Tour.
4. Hit balls with one club. After each swing, you hear a soft chime, then your ratio read out in your AirPods.
5. Stop from iPhone or Apple Watch, then open the session report. Tempo, Back and Down show the average.
6. Step to one swing to see its own numbers. In Progress, each point is one club’s average for a practice day.

Striped report, tempo card: each swing's backswing-to-downswing ratio, with the session average, the average of 10 swings from a real iron session. Tempo Tempo 3.1:1, range 2.5–3.5, Back 1.03 s, range 0.89–1.18 s, Down 0.34 s, range 0.31–0.36 s.

Each bar is one swing’s ratio, and the dashed line marks the session’s average. Captured in the Striped app.

The [golf tempo guide](https://stripedgolfapp.com/guides/golf-swing-tempo/) explains the ratio in more depth. Setup help is on the [support page](https://stripedgolfapp.com/support), and [the home page](https://stripedgolfapp.com/) shows what else Striped measures, such as hip turn, head movement and hand path.

Striped measures your swing with the iPhone in your pocket, your AirPods and Apple Watch.

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## Sources

1. [Towards a Biomechanical Understanding of Tempo in the Golf Swing (Grober and Cholewicki, arXiv physics/0611291, preprint)](https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0611291v1)
2. [Rule 4: The Player's Equipment, Rules of Golf (R&A)](https://www.randa.org/rog/the-rules-of-golf/rule-4)
3. [Now Hear This: Audio Equipment and the Rules (SCGA FORE Magazine, 2023)](https://fore.scga.org/know-the-rules/now-hear-this-audio-equipment-and-the-rules)
4. [The best way to practice if you want to get better quickly (GOLF.com, 2022)](https://golf.com/instruction/best-way-practicing-get-better-quickly/)
5. Striped: The paces the Striped metronome plays (backswing and downswing, in milliseconds).
6. Striped: Tempo ratio (backswing / downswing, timed at the hands by Apple Watch), mean per irons practice session. (example data from 11 practice sessions)
7. Striped: Striped times tempo at the hands. The top is where the hands reverse, read by Apple Watch on the lead wrist.

## Cite or embed

Cite this guide: Nick. “The golf DP World Tour and the swing rhythm you can practice.” Striped, 13 Nov 2026. https://stripedgolfapp.com/guides/golf-dp-world-tour/

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