Aiken Pickleball News

Houndslake Country Club - The pickleball courts are finished!

A fantastic job on refurbishing some tennis courts to pickleball at Houndslake. You can try them out this week at no cost. We still need five more players for the Houndslake demo on Saturday October 5th. Please sign up at the sign up list for "Houndsake Volunteers" or contact Chuck Buchanan. We need to show them some pickleball enthusiasm!!! The time will be from 3:35 to 6:00 pm. Click here to see the finished results. Absolutly beautiful!

The new pickleball courts are located at the old tennis facility on Houndslake Drive, between Pine Log Rd and Hitchcock Parkway. Plans are to add three additional courts if there is sufficient play. Photo below is of the Pickleball Clubhouse at Houndslake Country Club taken during the contruction phase of the first three courts.

Raffle at September 27th Social

Dianne Floyd won the raffle drawing at our September Social. The prize included a certificate for a 60-minute pickleball lesson from Mo Garcia, a Pro-Lite SuperNova, Black Diamond Pro, Graphite performance paddle supplied by Simone Jardim World Champion, one tin of Onix outdoor balls (3pcs), and a paddle cover – a total value of over $200.00!

The prize is courtesy of Mo Power Sport LLC. The raffle took in $290 and all proceeds go to support Aiken Pickleball. Thank you Mo for your generous donation, and congratulations to Dianne for winning a great prize.

Clarification of Local Rule

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

Pickleball Press - Aiken Pickleball Tournament in the News

In case you missed the Pickleball Tournament that was held at Odell Weeks over the weekend, you can read all about it in the Aiken Standard (click here), the Augusta Chronicle (click here), the Local News (click here), and even view it on Facebook - Boy are we popular!

Pickleball is coming to Houndslake Country Club

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)

Tennis Courts 1&2 (Hard) & 3&4 (Clay) will also be improved.