CLEARWATER, FLORIDA – Zen Golf’s new Enhanced app includes a game-changing Playlists feature which gives users an extraordinary new level of control over its Zen Green Stage and Zen Swing Stage moving floors.
The Playlists feature will transform how golfers and coaches across the world engage with their adjustable Zen playing surfaces, but it’s not the only blockbuster feature of the new Zen Enhanced app.
Zen Enhanced also enables users to integrate their Zen stages with other technology, as each integration is released, and it adds dramatic new 3D touchscreen controls including a user-friendly Joystick feature for instant floor movement underneath your feet.
The Zen Enhanced app effectively future-proofs Zen’s playing surfaces, enabling the firm’s British-based team of tech developers to make further cutting-edge innovations available as remote software downloads.
Introducing Zen Playlists: transforming indoor putting
“Zen Playlists take moving floors further than ever before” said Zen’s Andy Hiseman. “They are like Spotify or Apple Music for putting. Now, Zen owners can preset as many different gradients into their stages as they like – and create their own Playlists of favourites.
“For example, golf coaches can now pre-set different breaks for their lessons, and golfers can create and save putts which they particularly need to practice. And with Zen Enhanced, you can recreate famous putts which you have seen on TV or YouTube, or perhaps common putts from the greens on your own golf course.
“This opens up the prospect of having PGA Tour nights in your clubhouse, recreating memorable putts and shots from Major tournaments, or Ryder Cup contests at home with your friends. With the Zen Enhanced app there’s no limit to how many putts you can store in Playlists and recreate on your Zen Green Stage. It will simply be revolutionary for golf coaches, and for Zen owners everywhere.
“Zen Enhanced will even enable us to send Zen users Famous Putts from history, or from the previous weekend’s Tour events!”
But it’s not all about putting. “Zen Playlists will also make our Zen Swing Stage moving floor even more compelling, giving you the ability to create and store any imaginable fairway slope from the slightest contours up to extreme gradients, so you can access your preferred slopes instantly” said Hiseman.
Choose from two new Apps
The new Zen Enhanced app, which is available to Zen users via an annual subscription payment, is also now joined by another new app – Zen Lite, which is free to all Zen users, and gives basic controls which still enable full movement of the Green Stage and Swing Stage.
All Zen owners can stand on their Green Stage or Swing Stage and adjust their floor as if on the golf course itself, with levels of precision, adjustability and build quality unsurpassed elsewhere in the sport.
Enhanced App vs Lite App: choose your experience
The new choice of two Zen apps – Enhanced and Lite – gives Zen owners a choice between basic operation, and a more comprehensive toolset:
- Zen Lite: Full movement including Left, Right, Up, Down plus Zen’s unique Compound Breaks and Double Breaks – all available in the basic Zen app, and the perfect introduction to the potential of Green Stage and Swing Stage;
- Zen Enhanced: As Zen Lite, plus the addition of Zen’s full suite of advanced features including:
- Customizable Playlists and Presets
- Integration compatibility with 3rd party indoor golf technologies
- 3D Touchscreen Controls including Joystick
- Randomizer
- Future-proofing for further software developments and Zen Enhanced app upgrades
With the Enhanced app Zen owners will find it simple to create limitless different Presets including putting drills and green-reading tests, plus personally-designed challenges and skills tests for both putting and hitting shots, and then save them into their own customized Playlists.
All Zen moving floors also come pre-loaded with a wide selection of basic Presets which give quick access to simple breaks and slopes – but the Zen Enhanced app sets the user free to use their imagination, and create their own unique settings.
With the ability to adjust all four corners independently in 0.1% increments up to mind-boggling slopes and dramatic contours, Zen owners can already recreate almost limitless slopes on their Green Stage or Swing Stage.
Now, Zen Enhanced takes that adjustability to new levels of user-friendliness with powerful 3D Touchscreen Controls which make it easier than ever to dial in the most precisely calculated breaks.
The convenient and fun new Joystick feature, available exclusively in Zen Enhanced, enables fingertip-control and instant gradient-changes, ideal for customers who want to control their Zen stage in the fastest and simplest way.
Also in Zen Enhanced is the new Randomizer feature, which replicates the unpredictability of a real game of golf with a one-touch randomization of putts and hitting gradients – setting golfers the ultimate green-reading or shot-shaping challenges to sharpen their skills!
Crucially for the future, the Enhanced app also provides Zen owners with access to all of Zen Golf’s current and future integrations with other leading golf technologies. This creates a seamless training experience, linking the Zen software to other systems for greatly enhanced data capture.
The Zen Enhanced app not only automates today’s practice but also connects you to future digital innovations in golf tech, helping you stay ahead with the best tools and insights in the game.
Zen’s vision realized
Nick Middleton, Zen founder, expressed his enthusiasm for the launch of the new Zen Golf apps, saying: “Although Zen Lite gives all users comprehensive controls to move their Zen stage, the Zen Enhanced app significantly realizes our wider vision to bring the whole golf course indoors, and to enable golfers worldwide to move the course in almost limitless ways beneath their feet.
“By offering unparalleled control, variety, and gamification, the Zen Enhanced app completely transforms how golfers can train, and how golf instructors can teach, enabling lovers of the sport to get more out of every session whilst having fun. For example, we envisage that a growing number of inter-club leagues will emerge, as people challenge each other on Zen’s ultra-realistic indoor slopes.
“Zen’s mission has always been to bridge the gap between real-course play and indoor practice, and the Zen Enhanced app delivers on that promise in many exciting new ways!”
Integrations with world-class technologies
Will Stubbs, Zen Golf Managing Director, said: “All of us at Zen are proud that our focus on setting ever-higher standards in the moving floor category has already been recognized by so many leading golf establishments and Tour golfers across the world – but although we have been developing our adjustable playing surfaces for over a decade now, the new Zen Enhanced app makes us feel like we are only just getting started!
“The features which we have created so far are testament to the great skills within this team, and also to the growing collaborations which we now enjoy with other best-of-breed technologies which complement the Zens. We will be making further announcements soon, detailing how these integrations with our technology partners will work.
“The Zen Enhanced app isn’t just an upgrade – it’s a transformation. It will enable the best coaches and most passionate golfers in the world to optimize their practice sessions with some almost unbelievable new scenarios.
“It is a tool which elevates golf’s premier moving floors to a truly world-class new level – and it will keep getting even better.”
Explore the future of indoor golf practice today. Visit https://zen.golf/zen-app/ to learn more,
