There are plenty of ways to celebrate the opening of a pickleball facility, but Lone Palm Country Club may have set the bar at an all-time high.
The Lakeland facility is celebrating a $16m renovation by adding 13 pickleball courts and a bar to their existing golf and tennis amenities.
To celebrate? A pro-pickleball exhibition tournament, boasting an absurd $50,000k prize pool with half going to each bracket. (For context, that’s about as much as a regular APP event.)
You know at The Dink, we cannot consume enough pro-pickleball, so we’ll be live-streaming the matches on our YouTube channel.
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Women’s Doubles Draw
The women’s draw is absolutely stacked with some of the best players in the game, guaranteed to create some fantastic pickleball. Here are a few teams we think are worth the watch:
Anna Bright & Rachel Rohrabacher are back again after taking gold at the most recent Major League Pickleball event in Atlanta and will undoubtedly be a favorite in many people’s books… But will they be able to repeat the success they had a few weeks back?
Hurricane Tyra Black & Lea Jansen are a dynamic duo that has some of the most power in the women’s game. Look for these two to find…
