Metric Golf Club has purchased two Zen Swing Stage 2 moving floors for its new indoor golf performance centre in Harrogate, bringing Zen’s Active Terrain Technology to a new indoor facility in the North of England.

The centre, opening later this year at The Lenz in Harrogate’s Hornbeam Park, will feature six Trackman iO-powered simulator bays. Two dedicated coaching bays will house the Zen floors, allowing golfers to coach, practise and play from changing slopes and lies rather than the flat surface of a conventional simulator setup.

How the Zen Swing Stage works

Zen’s Active Terrain Technology moves the golfer into adjustable uphill, downhill and sidehill positions, reproducing the sloping lies of the golf course indoors. The Swing Stage 2 measures 1.8 metres by 2.4 metres, stands 187mm high, and can tilt up to 12% uphill or downhill and 10% left or right, with actuators twice as fast as those in the earlier model.

During simulator play using Trackman Virtual Golf 3, the Trackman integration allows the Zen Swing Stage to automatically adjust its gradient to match the lie displayed on screen. Coaches can also control the floor independently, setting individual or compound slopes to create specific challenges for lessons and practice sessions.

For coaches and players, that opens up new ways to work on how terrain affects ball position, posture, balance, club selection and shot execution. For simulator golfers, feeling the lie beneath their feet forces them to adapt to the shot in front of them, just as they would outdoors.

Ollie White, Co-Founder and PGA Professional at Metric Golf Club, said: “I was sold from the very first shot I hit on a downhill lie. Within seconds you realise this isn’t a gimmick, the Zen Swing Stage completely changes the way you approach the shot. Your setup, balance and even your club selection naturally adapt, just as they would on the golf course. It makes simulator golf feel far closer to the real game.”

What Metric Golf Club will offer

Founded by Harrogate entrepreneur Martin Brailsford and White, Metric has been designed around performance, coaching and community. The club aims to provide structured development for committed and competitive golfers while operating as a year-round destination for social golfers, juniors and beginners.

Alongside the six simulator bays, the venue will include a dedicated short-game area for chipping and putting, a golf-specific gym and a full-time on-site physiotherapist. An additional performance bay specialising in club fitting will follow in 2027. Memberships, junior programmes, leagues and competitions are all planned, as are corporate events and social golf experiences.

Brailsford said the Zen purchase fits the club’s wider ambition:

“At Metric Golf Club we’re aiming to create the UK’s leading golf performance centres, so every investment has to genuinely improve the golfer’s experience and performance. The Zen Swing Stage does exactly that. It takes simulator golf from a two-dimensional experience into a three-dimensional one, allowing golfers to practise and play in a way that much more closely reflects the real game.

We’re also incredibly proud to be partnering with another ambitious Yorkshire business. We were keen to work with companies that share our values of innovation, continuous improvement and raising standards, and from our very first conversations it was clear that Zen was a perfect fit.”

When the club’s plans were first announced in June, Brailsford told Golf Business News 

“Golf has evolved dramatically over the last decade, but many of the places where people practise and improve haven’t evolved with it. Metric Golf Club has been created to bridge that gap.”

A growing trend in indoor golf

The installation reflects a shared view between Metric and Zen that technology should do more than generate data or reproduce the look of golf on a screen. As we covered in our piece on how technology is improving golf, launch monitors and simulators have transformed indoor practice by delivering immediate swing and ball-flight feedback, and UK golfers are turning to simulators in growing numbers for year-round play. A moving surface beneath the golfer’s feet further narrows the gap between indoor practice and the real game.

Zen’s Active Terrain Technology is now used in more than 28 countries by professional tours, coaching academies, universities and indoor golf venues, as well as world-ranked players and coaches.

Andy Hiseman, VP Global Sales at Zen Golf, said:

“From the moment you step through the door, you will realise how special Metric Golf Club is. First impressions count, and within seconds you will realise that you are in a venue of rare quality. Having been lucky enough to have had a preview, I am convinced that this will be a stunning addition to indoor golf training in the north of England.

“With first Trackman and now Zen as its fundamental indoor golf technologies, Metric Golf Club is doing all the right things to create the alpha golf training facility in the north, and we will be supporting them all the way.”

Further information is available at metricgolf.club and zen.golf.