PING, a long-time leader in putter innovation and performance, is to install a Zen Green Stage adjustable putting green at its Putting Lab at its global headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Zen Green Stage is PING’s second, with the first having been installed in the PING Performance Research Centre at Loughborough University in the UK in 2021.
PING will also provide golf equipment for visitors to Zen’s booth (#ETC13) at the PGA Show in Orlando to use for hitting breaking putts and shots off sloping lies on Zen’s Green Stage and Swing Stage moving platforms.
The Zen Green Stage, which creates compound breaks and double breaks as well as planar slopes, enables golfers to hit a near-limitless amount of different breaking putts in a single compact space. It will be used by PING engineers, researchers and master putter fitters at its Phoenix facility for a variety of purposes including product testing and custom-fitting.
Paul Wood, VP Engineering at PING, said: “Our company was founded by Karsten Solheim, an engineer and frustrated golfer who wanted to improve his putting, so he applied his expertise in physics to the design of a better putter. Improving putter technology and helping golfers putt better has been a cornerstone of PING ever since.
“The addition of the movable Zen Green Stage allows us to continue that mission by unlocking valuable insights into what golfers experience on the putting green, leading to improved putter designs and fitting techniques.”
Andy Hiseman, VP Global Sales & Marketing at Zen Golf, said: “As the pioneers of accurately-adjustable golf playing surfaces nothing gives our team greater pride than to be selected as a technology provider by world-class organizations such as PING.
“Our relationship with PING is one of our most-valued in the sport. The fact that they entrust the Green Stage to create true, real-world putting scenarios for their customers, which include Tour golfers, coaches and custom-fitters, sends out a strong message of quality to the industry.”
PING will soon install a 20ft Zen Green Stage, the largest model from the Zen range, at its Phoenix facility. The Green Stage is also available in 16ft and 12ft sizes, with its sister product the Zen Swing Stage, which produces robust slopes for hitting full shots indoors off gradients, sized at 6ft.
For more details, visit www.zen.golf or call +44 (0)1226 781000.