New Zen Oracle RDE Mallet wins "Best on Test " in National Club Readers Survey 2008

For the second time during the 2008 season Zen has been the handsome winner by 4 clear points in a major survey of new design putters. Once again, Zen proved to provide an all-round package boasting their unique composition of performance and game improvement. Its combination of striking looks, Tour feel AND exceptional value meant the panel were completely won over.

"The new Zen is the most visually distinctive putter on test, it’s a little surprising that Zen have topped our reader poll. However, the things our readers loved most about this high-tech club were the feel, balance and weight. Perimeter weighting has been used to boost the MOI factor and help with forgiveness on off-centre", National Cub Golfer

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Australian Leaderboard player Geoff Ogilvy has just broken through with a win at Doral in the World Golf Championships-CA Championship.

Geoff shot 17 Under Par to head off a great field including Retief Goosen, Vijay Singh, fellow LeaderBoard player, Adam Scott and of course Tiger Woods.

New Zen RDE Putters enter Top 5 in Golf Rankmark Survey

The latest USA Rankmark independent survey of high tech putters confirms golf newcomer Zen is gaining valuable ground on big brand names. Rankmark conducts one of the industry’s largest objective testing and analysis on golf equipment and reports those findings to the public via its web site. Candidate products are selected by its representative consumer judging panel of club members.

- The new Zen “RDE” (pronounced READY) premium Tour Collection introduces new technology that counteracts the adverse effect of the golf ball dimples.

- Precisely designed micro ridges are milled into the putter face that minimize contact with the ball and improves impact dispersion of 50%. The results being that putts stay online, roll beautifully and have a feel that is both soft and responsive coming off of the face for maximum confidence and control.

Zen Wins Golf Digest Hot Product Awards 2008 in Blade and Mallet Categories.

In its first attempt, Zen putters are awarded 2 major accolades in World's most comprehensive equipment Survey.

“It was like it was leading me to the hole…You feel the transfer of the ball's energy right up the shaft”
Comment from Blade Putter Category Judge

Not just a putter company but a way of putting, Zen should be on the emergency contact list of every frustrated putter. The classic look of these models is first-rate in every way.
Golf Digest

“It gives you what you need…It has great alignment, sound, feel and roll…And, it looks cool”
Comment from Mallet Putter Category Judge

Putter fans will remember the Zen Oracle training putter was designed to encourage a smooth putting motion. This design allows the weight to be distributed to the perimeter. Not impressed? Then skip the seminar and just use the putter. Any questions? We didn't think so.
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Leaderboard Coach and Top Player Awarded at Australian Golf Digest 2008 ceremony.

It was smiles all around for the LeaderBoard team at the Australian Golf Digest Awards in Sydney last evening. Leaderboard player Aaron Baddeley took out the Australian Golf Digest - 2007 Player of the Year award. Also, LeaderBoard coach, Steve Bann took out the award for Australian Golf Digest - 2007 Coach of the Year.

Congratulations to both Aaron and Steve on their well deserved wins.

Zen RDE Blades cut above the rest in National Club Survey

“I liked the soft feel of this putter. It also looks good and is well setup. Best of the bunch if you ask me”

SCORE: 9/10

….The Zen putter is the runaway winner in our readers' poll. All liked the feel.

• In this Edition
• Teaching & Coaching Conference (Malmo – Sweden)
• Player Development, a victory in Brazil
• Forum Algarve concludes its community based golf project and helps grow the game
• Tony comments on the value of one putt, and asks is it worth €77?  
• Learn how to hole more putts with personalised feedback
• Find out about the new “Zen Oracle RDE” mallet
  
• Full Review

Golfpunk journalist jumps into the deep end with leading British Golf Sports Science University

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Peter Baker notches up his second Challenge Tour victory of 2007 with Zen "RDE" Putter and received the perfect 40th birthday present when he defeated fellow Englishman Ross McGowan at the first hole of a sudden-death play-off to win the Open A.G.F Allianz Côtes D’Armor Bretagne and secure a return to The European Tour 2008.

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K.J. TOPS TIGER’S TOURNEY WITH HELP FROM THE TOUR’S #1 TRAINING AND FITNESS DEVICE

Leaderboard™ training device helps propel K J Choi to top of PGA Tour leaderboard twice within five weeks.

When KJ Choi blasted out of the sand and straight into the hole at Seventeen, it was clear that there was no stopping our Korean LeaderBoard champion from notching up his second tour victory in five weeks.

Just like he did at the Memorial, KJ held firm to take out the tournament and score another win for the ever growing band of PGA Tour players who train on the LeaderBoard Golf Trainer.

At Memorial, it was Jack Nicklaus who presented KJ with his trophy. At Congressional he would shake the hand of Tiger Woods who was the host for The AT&T National - this is all becoming a habit for KJ.

And, of course we also had a tie for third with our own Stuart Appleby joining Jim Furyk and Pat Perez on 3 Under. One shot further back we had Robert Allenby in a tie for sixth with Tiger Woods.

Adding the trophy from Tiger’s event to the one he earned at Jack’s a few weeks ago, K.J. Choi stands as proof that “perfect practice makes perfect.” And not just any practice. Choi recently has been employing the LeaderBoard training device, the #1 swing-training and fitness-development apparatus on PGA TOUR. His preparation has notched him two wins within five weeks, making him one of only five PGA Tour players with multiple wins in 2007.

The LeaderBoard training and fitness device is used by top level pros including Choi, Stuart Appleby, Adam Scott and Robert Allenby, and develops both muscle function and motor skill (movement patterns) and physically prepares golfers with incredible precision and efficiency. By using the LeaderBoard, a golfer develops the legs and the muscles of the midsection needed to create a solid base of support while ingraining the correct movement patterns that generate powerful and accurate golf shots.

Thanks in part to his use of the LeaderBoard device in his practice routine, Choi finished tied for fifth in greens in regulation (hitting 75% of greens), tied for fifth in driving accuracy (hitting over 73% of fairways) and tied for 15th in driving distance, averaging just under 309 yards per drive. All of these stats combined produced a tournament leading 20 birdies for the week.

“My fitness work I put in with my trainers and the technique training I do with my swing coach both employ the Leaderboard,” said Choi. “I am certain that my recent success is in part due to this hard work and how good that product is.”

K J Choi notches up 5th Leaderboard victory in 2007 season

Dublin, OH — Blitzing the Sunday field with a 7-under 65, KJ Choi won his fifth career PGA Tour title shooting a tournament record-tying 17-under par at this year’s Memorial Tournament and earned “Team Leaderboard” its fifth win of the 2007 season.

The Memorial’s leaderboard was more like a roster of great players who all use the Leaderboard Total Golf Game Trainer to improve their overall fitness, posture, balance and swing technique.  Seven of the top 10 finishers are all players that do their training on the Leaderboard including Choi, Rod Pampling, Adam Scott, Geoff Ogilvy and Aaron Baddeley.

K J recently started working with Leaderboard principal coach Steve Bann. Besides tying the tournament record for lowest total score, he also hit 83 percent of his fairways with an average driving distance of over 280 yards and hit 70 percent of his greens over 72 holes.  Just as important, KJ was seventh in putting highlighted by 4 huge par saving putts in the fourth round to preserve his victory.  The combined effect of this performance had him hoisting the trophy next to his golfing hero, tournament host, Jack Nicklaus, at the end of the day.

"I just feel very honored and very happy to be living in the same age, same period of time as Jack is living, and to win his tournament is so meaningful to me. I can only think this was meant to be."
He can say that because when he was a prep school student, his physical education teacher, seeing potential in young Kyoung-Ju, presented him with a golf instruction book, "Golf My Way," translated into Korean. The author: Jack Nicklaus.

Golf Bone – the ergonomic golf carry device is a welcome change for those
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Experience “Break 30” at the London Golf Show.

April 26th - 29th 2007 ExCel London

Zen Golf showcases cutting edge technology from the 2007 Tour.

The line up included the latest golf concept “Break 30”, the putting performance course designed to help you develop all the skills of the Tour Pros. With expert help from the team of Zen Putting Mechanics, participants at the London Golf Show have the opportunity to receive first hand tuition from European Tour coaches armed with Science & Motion Putt Lab, the revolutionary Eclipse eye tracking system and the highly effective Zen Oracle direct feedback putter.

Zen RDE Putters feature patented face technology that counteracts the adverse effects of golf ball dimples. Are your RDE Ready?

Meanwhile, the new Zen "RDE" Putters (pronounced “Ready”) were the talking point at the US PGA Golf Show in Orlando, had their official UK launch at the Show. RDE stands for Reduced Dimple Error as these putters feature micro ridge face technology that counter act the adverse effects of the modern golf ball dimples. Stuart Appleby made the switch to Zen and rapidly moved from 165th to 10th for putting stats; regaining his Mercedes Championship title for the 3rd time in succession and winning twice on the USPGA Tour in 2006.

Want more Distance?
Confused by all the hype surrounding the latest in driver technology?
Introducing LeaderBoard - golf mechanics made simple. Now you too can discover the hottest tour secrets of distance an accuracy with LeaderBoard. This year we are joined by the team of Zen Swing Mechanics who will assist visitors onto the LeaderBoard the revolutionary posture and swing dynamics platform developed out of the Victoria Institute of Sport, Australia. Adam Scott & Stuart Appleby have just finished first and second at Shell Huston Open and now over 50 of the world’s leading golfers have adopted this new golf fitness innovation to generate more distance and accuracy

Stuart Appleby, 3 times Mercedes Champ, uses Leaderboard

Leaderboard – the balance, posture and dynamic swing platform is a portable golf gym that tones the golf specific muscles and helps to fix the 5 major swing faults.

Discover the easy way to carry your clubs.

Golf Bone previewed their radical brand of ergonomic golf bag carry device. Designed to reduce back ache and energy wasted lugging your golf bag, this ground breaking concept is the result of extensive scientific assessment at Sheffield Hallam University School of Sport & Exercise Science & the European initiative “Sports Pulse”.

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LEADERBOARD PLAYERS GO HEAD TO HEAD FOR TOP HONOURS AT SHELL HUSTON OPEN USA

Adam Scott and Stuart Appleby finish first and second at the Shell Houston Open, Texas. Up until the final putt of the 72nd hole of the 2007 Shell Houston Open, the question of who would be crowned this year’s champion remained in doubt. What was certain was the fact that the winner was going to be a player that centers his training on the PGA Tour’s most widely used physical training device, the Leaderboard Total Trainer. Australians Adam Scott and Stuart Appleby were one shot apart going into the final hole of this year’s tournament after trading off 330 yard plus drives, laser beam approach shots and clutch putts throughout the day’s round of scintillating golf by the two men.

Champion Scott was quick to declare, “I use the Leaderboard not only to train my body to move with maximum power but also to technically reinforce the proper timing of my swing. The training I do on the Leaderboard is paying huge dividends in my performance.” Meanwhile Stuart takes consolation, “I am not only a faithful user of the Leaderboard, I am an owner of the business as well and I would not jeopardize my reputation on a product that does not deliver results – so many of the guys use the product on Tour now that in 2007, it will probably be bigger news if a player does not train with the Leaderboard.”

The tables are turned in the following week when Stuart becomes the Australian flag bearer when leading The Masters at Augusta going into the final round. Both men went into this prestigious tournament in top physical form and that is in no small part due to the time they put in every week using the Leaderboard as the cornerstone of their physical training on tour. The Leaderboard uses an innovative resistance design to develop both muscles and movements specific to the golf swing. In addition to developing the optimum muscle function and motor skills, the Leaderboard is also incredibly effective in immediately identifying swing deficiencies in posture, balance, timing and power by physically cuing the player that something is not right and retraining the muscles and movements for more effectiveness. The product is used by many of the world’s best golfers including, Robert Allenby, Stuart Appleby, Adam Scott, Geoff Ogilvy, KJ Choi, Rod Pampling, Stephen Ames, Zack Johnson, Bob Estes, Steve Allen, Paul Gow, Michael Campbell, Mike Weir, Stuart Cink, Brad Faxon, Aaron Baddeley, Heath Slocum, John Senden Jesper Parnevik, and Brett Quigley.

John Sendon tops the Leaderboard at Australian Open.

Queenslander John Senden has stormed home with the round of the tournament to claim the MFS Australian Open by a stroke from US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy at Royal Sydney. In fact 7 out of the 8 top places went to players who use Leaderboard for their golf fitness and stability platform. Full story and scoring:

http://pgatour.com.au/default.asp?s=newsdisplay&aid=5964

George Stubbs 15, wins The Hallowes Junior Open, Sheffield, using his Zen Tour Works Red “hot” putter.

George (5 handicap) carded 2 under par to finish 2 shots clear of the field with a decisive eagle on the 16th and only 26 putts.

“It’s the first time I have played the course. The greens were immaculate, the putts rolled great and I took advantage of every opportunity presented”  

No stranger to the Zen Oracle and its training system, George was introduced to the putter having taken up the game just 2 years ago and receiving expert instruction from Graham Walker (EGU Coach) and Mark Shervill of the Zenjin team coaching programme.

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Building the Solid Foundations of the Golf Swing

- Zenjin, the Golf Sport Science initiative hosts Open Championship 2006 Leaderboard Seminar

An Introduction to the Australian golf training innovation used by Stuart Appleby, Geoff Ogilvy, Adam Scott, Robert Allenby and over 30 other touring pros worldwide.  The Leaderboard golf training device is the phenomenal new way to improve Power, Balance, Posture and Swing Dynamics simply and automatically.

Guest speaker Stuart Appleby is joined by the Australian Golf fitness instructor Vernon McMillan and leading tour coach Stephen Bann to present their successes over the past several years training effective golf swing motor patterns in elite Tour players using the innovative Leaderboard golf fitness device.

The Leaderboard is the invention of Australian physiologist Vernon McMillan developed during the last six years working in collaboration with leading golf coach Stephen Bann and some of the best golfers in the world. The design is the summation of McMillan’s extensive research into relevant golf anatomical movement patterns taken from Martial Arts and Pilates disciplines.

Since its introduction in 2004, Leaderboard is now successfully used by a growing number of Asian, European & US PGA Tour players as part of their regular training and competition warm-up regimen. The speakers anticipate attendance from some of the PGA Tour players currently competing for in the Open Championship who will demonstrate their respective applications of the system.  

The seminar is highly interactive and encourages participation from audience members Matt Wilcox, Zenjin Challenge student who gets to mix it up as a guest participant together with Ladies European Tour star, Liza Walters and England Elite Amateur Danny Dennison who famously pipped Vijay Singh to finish 3rd in the Quatar Masters earlier in the year and arrives fresh having just qualified for The Open.

Seminar Programme

• Overview of the Leaderboard development history, philosophy & function.


• “Building the Swing from the Ground UP.” Applications for Recreational and Elite Golfers.


• “The 5 Big Faults” – Common Motor pattern movement problems and error correction in the golf swing.


• “Safe & Solid Foundations for the Golf Swing.” Applications for Junior golfer development.

About the Speakers.

Stuart Appleby, 3 time winner of The Mercedes Championships and Shell Huston Open

Vernon McMillan, Physiologist & inventor of Leaderboard has a highly successful track record at Olympic and Commonwealth Games sports and is the Strength & Conditioning coach to Stuart Appleby, Robert Allenby, Steve Allan, Aaron Badderly, Geoff Ogilvy, Ernie Els and Adam Scott. 

Steve Bann, Golf coach to Stuart Appleby & founder of the Sport Golf Programme at The Victorian Institute of Sport, Melbourne; the most successful single program producing more players onto the world’s Tours.

Event managed by Zenjin in association with The PGA Belfry and The Centre for Sport and Exercise Science, Sheffield Hallam University.

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Photo: Joanne Stubbs 2006

Oliver Fisher wins golf’s most prestigious amateur title The St. Andrews Links Trophy with new Zen Merc Blade putter.

The 17 year old international golf prodigy finished by two clear shots on -7. Oliver, an avid fan of the Zen Oracle training routines, switched to the Zen Merc Blade during the British Masters at The Belfry. In 2005 he entered the record books as the youngest player to gain selection for the Walker Cup in Chicago.

The Links Trophy was inaugurated in 1989 and is now one of the most prestigious amateur events in world golf. Top golfers today such as Ernie Els, Lee Westwood, Padraig Harrington, Philip Price and Paul McGinley all played in the Links Trophy early in their careers and it provided them with valuable tournament experience.

Full report, click or paste the link into your web browser:

http://www.standrews.org.uk/events/annual_tournaments/links_trophy.html

The Zen “Merc” Blade putter introduces patented and scientifically proven “RDE” (pronounced “Ready”) Dimple Error Correction face technology featuring precise micro ridges that work to counteract the adverse effect of the golf ball dimples. The putter was first brought into play by Stuart Appleby at Mercedes Championships in Hawaii, the opening event on the US PGA Tour, where he secured his record 3rd successive victory of this title. More recently Stuart went on to capture the Shell Huston Open by six shots; his largest ever winning margin.

RDE inventor and British engineer Dr Norman Lindsay has proven that “dimple error” can cause perfectly stroked and aligned putts of only five feet to miss the hole.  While existing face grooves can only provide an 8% reduction, the new Zen RDE provides correction by typically 50%. This results in putts that stay online, roll true and a have feel that is both soft and responsive coming off of the face for maximum confidence and control. 

To keep posted on developments in the world of Zen or to get included in the Zenjin Sports Performance Programme, simply click http://www.zenoracle.co.uk/contact.asp

Stuart wins the Shell Houston Open

Stuart Appleby led from the opening round to the end of the tournament and finished at 19 under 269 on the new Redstone Tournament Course. Appleby, who uses the new Zen Blade Putter, also won in Houston in 1999. Following on from his win at Kapalua, Hawaii Stuart joins Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson as the only two time winners on this years PGA Tour. Read more about Stuart's win by CLICKING HERE

Course conditions were tough and the greens were very tricky. This year the field recorded the highest-ever putting average for this event, but Appleby uses the new Zen Blade putter to lead the field for the second consecutive year in average distance of putts made at 83 feet, 5 inches and led the field in putting from 15 to 20 feet, converting 42.9 percent of his attempts.

Click here to read the full story: http://www.pgatour.com/

The English Elite squad member and former world #4 reaches the summit of his game at this year’s event staged at Bromborough GC.

Over the last 18 months, Paul has been working closely with Zen Master Graham Walker who is an EGU and Golf World Top 25 Coach.

Zen will exhibit at The Open Championship as a guest of The Heritage Golf Company of St. Andrews and the charity “Keepers of the Green”. The Fife County Tent, situated next to The Open Merchandise Marquee, will feature a special indoor putting green to showcase Zen together with David Edel of the USA who will demonstrate his advanced laser custom fit putting system. The event provides an ideal opportunity to raise awareness to the tremendous endeavours of the charity and to allow visitors to experience the Zen “Direct Feedback” training system at first hand using the latest line-up of their range of innovative putters as played by Stuart Appleby.

Once again, eyes will be drawn to the 2004 Open Champion, Todd Hamilton, who started using the Zen Oracle training system prior to his rookie win at The Honda Classic earlier that year, and has since become a seasoned advocate of the Zen. This year, Zen is joined on the Players Practice Putting Green with Science & Motion Golf “SAM Putt Lab”, the World’s #1 putting analysis system. Together, this powerful combination offers competitors a vital insight into their swing mechanic and stroke technique in their quest to find that last minute edge. Stuart Wilson, the Silver Medallist at Royal Troon, made front page news when he famously captured his form to join the early leaders in 2004. It can now be revealed that Stuart together with Ian Rae, Scottish Golf Union National coach, started using the Zen system prior to the competing. The response gave rise to the SGU adopting the system, and Stuart alongside a growing number of fellow elite players now enjoy the positive benefits of Zen brings to their game.