Aiken Pickleball News

The recent tournament enabled us to apply the new "Local Rule" against crossing a court divider during play.  The rule was quite effective and we received many constructive comments. With that experience, we've added some clarifying language as follows:

A player crossing a court divider is a fault.

• Includes the imaginary line from divider to wall
• Regardless of whether the adjacent court is occupied
• Even if the ball is dead before momentum causes the player to cross divider (same as a kitchen fault)
• Does not apply to merely reaching over a divider,
  nor safely retrieving a ball after a point has ended

The Houndslake Country Club has started work on converting tennis courts 5 & 6 into Pickleball Courts. Three (3) pickleball courts will be created initially with space to expand to six (6).   A social will be held in early October to introduce the game. 

Need Volunteers to help complete the filling of cracks in the concrete surface of the courts.

Contact:    Dick Funkhouser (270-3448) or Jerry Clements (215-9190)

The articles Lesson with a Difference, Drills with “Little Mo”, and Wednesday Clinics are the results of a meeting that took place last Tuesday between the Leadership Team and our certified instructors. The focus was on feedback received from various players on ways to improve lessons and clinics.  

We know that we can please some of you most of the time, most of you some of the time, and although it is probably an impossible task, we will continue to try and please all of you, all of the time.  But we can not do it alone - we need your feedback! 

If you see something that is wrong, or have suggestions on how things can be improved - please provide your positive feedback to the members of the Leadership Team  at  info@aikenpickleball.com.  That address forwards to all three Leadership Team members.  You can also provide input through your player representative.  Their photos and email addresses are displayed under the “Contact us” tab.  Thank you.

Aiken Pickleball is all over the news these days.  From the Pickleball Magazine to social media to Cable TV, we’re there.  Our upcoming tournament has a large presence on the current Visit Aiken SC.com website.  Click here to view.  

On Facebook, we get occasional mention on VisitAikenSC and Aiken Parks Recreation and Tourism pages.  Atlantic Broadband CableTV Channel 4 scrolls Pickleball information periodically.