Zen Green Stage partners with Sky Sports

Computer controlled adjustable surface Zen Green stage will regularly feature on Sky Sports’ future golf coverage, after making its debut at the 2017 Open.

"Zen Green" was embedded in Sky Sports Open Zone at Birkdale, allowing presenters to demonstrate breaking putts and shots from sloping lies.

“Imagine a future where you’re watching live coverage of a golf event, and can immediately recreate the exact putt you’ve just seen on the TV,” said co-inventor Nick Middleton.

“That’s possible now, with the Green Stage. Its rapid transformations add an element of uncertainty, posing addictive new putting challenges which fire the imagination. We think it supplies a major piece of golf’s DNA which has been missing, until now, from indoor golf.

“It was fascinating to work with the Sky Sports Golf team at Royal Birkdale this year,” he continued. “They are world-class innovators when it comes to TV sports coverage, and they brilliantly realised the creative potential of the Zen Green Stage at The Open Championship.

“In its new home, the Sky Sports Golf studio, we hope that TV viewers will enjoy watching presenters use the Zen Green Stage in all sorts of imaginative ways, bringing the sport to life like never before. It will be a theatre of new experiences, and what you have seen on Sky Sports to date is just the beginning,” said Middleton.

Zen Green stage is a digitally adjusted playing surface, available to use with putting and full shots.