With over 7,500 rounds played, tournament popularity is part of broader growth trend for GOLFZON golf simulators
(STERLING, Va.) GOLFZON – the world leader in golf simulator market share – hosted the 2021 GOLFZON North American Tournament sponsored by Volvik from March 20 through April 25 driving more than 7,500 total rounds. This year’s participation makes the 2021 competition the largest virtual golf tournament in the western hemisphere, exceeding GOLFZON’s 2017 tournament.
The success of the competition points to GOLFZON’s overall growth in North America and the increasing popularity of simulator golf. Since launching in North America in 2017, GOLFZON has seen its simulator sales grow 54% on average in the past 15 months. Additionally, GOLFZON was recently awarded Golf Digest’s Editors’ Choice Award for best premium simulator for the fifth year in a row.
Available to any home or commercial facility with GOLFZON Vision software, the GOLFZON North American Tournament ran on GOLFZON Live Festival (GLF) gameplay mode and was played on PGA National’s Champion Course. Each player completed at least one 18-hole round during the tournament period and could submit as many rounds as they pleased.
GOLFZON enlisted 52 commercial facilities across the U.S., Canada and Mexico to participate. Golfers played an average of nine rounds throughout the competition with 58 being the highest number of rounds played by an individual. The grand prize winner shot a round of 17-under-par to earn a $2,000 gift card and custom GOLFZON blazer. There were an additional 26 individual prizes given out totaling $12,000.
“We have high expectations at GOLFZON, so we are truly humbled by the number of golfers and amount rounds played in the North American tournament,” says Tommy Lim, CEO of GOLFZON America. “We look forward to becoming even more popular through launching additional competitive events across the continent and giving as many golfers possible access to our unrivaled technology. Congratulations to all of those who won and helped build momentum for GOLFZON in America.”
GOLFZON offers the most technologically advanced golf simulators in the world with best-in-class software and hardware that deliver an accurate, real-life experience. It’s unique patented eight-way hydraulic swing plate with 360 degrees of directional movement adjusts to any lie – uphill, downhill and sidehill – that golfers would experience on a golf course. The moving swing plate also has turf that simulates fairway, rough and sand.
For more information about GOLFZON, visit www.golfzongolf.com.
About GOLFZON
GOLFZON is a bestselling, global golf simulator company. Awarded by Golf Digest from 2017 to 2021 to their Editor’s Choice Awards for best golf simulator, GOLFZON has a presence in 62 countries with 6,200 sites around the world and 65 million rounds of golf played on GOLFZON simulators annually. GOLFZON also hosts two professional virtual golf tours (GTOUR and WGTOUR) with a total prize purse of more than $2.7 million.
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