I Played 7 Of The Most Famous Putts In Golf History And This Is How I Got On

I’ve never been great at putting. In fact, it would be fair to say I’ve done rather too much of it over the years, so I was trepidatious to say the least when I was selected from the Golf Monthly team to go and attempt a putting challenge at the Zen Green Stage indoor demo room inside the historic St Andrews Golf Company shop at Number 9, Golf Place – a short pitch away from the 18th green of the Old Course.

In fact, where the Zen demo room is located was actually where the green of the old course once sat – right outside Old Tom Morris’s shop front. That seemed fitting as the set up in the demo room recreates the feeling of putting on the course proper with images of the Royal and Ancient clubhouse on one wall and the Links road on the other.

The demo room is super-cool with a selection of modern and historic putters available to try on the rather incredible Green Stage.

The 8ft-wide Zen Green Stage can recreate every makeable putt on the planet, and can also accurately reproduce real-world gradients for full-swing golf indoors. It is available in both On-Floor and In-Floor versions, and in lengths of 12ft, 16ft and 20ft. You might well have seen them in use by the Sky Sports pundits.

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