[USGA] GOLFZON Named Official Indoor Golf Simulator of the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open

The USGA announced that it has entered into a multi-year partnership with GOLFZON, naming GOLFZON the official indoor golf simulator of the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open. According to the report, the partnership takes effect beginning with the 2026 championship season, starting with the U.S. Women’s Open at Riviera Country Club in California, where fans and VIP guests will be able to experience GOLFZON simulators firsthand on site and participate in programs offering prizes.

The USGA will also jointly support the GOLFZON tour, and reported that it plans to integrate co-branded events into a competition in which teams from major cities nationwide go head-to-head in real time through networked play, competing for a USD 300,000 winner’s prize. It was also noted that, since its founding in 2000, GOLFZON holds more than 378 patents, operates approximately 13,000 locations worldwide, and that more than 100 million rounds were played last year. In particular, the fact that GOLFZON’s 64-directional motion plate can reproduce 56,000 lie conditions was highlighted as the core of its technological capability, and it was reported that the market significance of this partnership is substantial, given that the number of simulator golf users in the United States surged from 3.6 million five years ago to 8.1 million in 2024.