 Public available Pickleball, in SW Florida for the most part, was started Jan 1 2005 at a private club called Brookshire Bath and Tennis on two chaulked tennis courts.
At the present time in Southwest Florida public access Pickleball is being played only at Wa-Ke-Hatchee Recreational Faciity in South Ft Myers.It is played only one day a week on Saurdays from 9 AM to 12 PM at Wa-Ka-Hatchee Rec Center. We have 3 indoor pickleball courts and room to add one more court as the group of players grow. Additional days of play may also be available later. We started open play at Wa-Ka-Hatchee on Feb 17th 2006 and have averaged about 15 players each session. Play at this time is open to all who come. Beginners are welcome to come and learn the game. For beginners let me suggest you click on the Link below on History and Rules At this time there is no pickleball club or organized program ;however these idears are is being considered. This site has weblog posting capabilities which I use tol posts the very latest new information on Pickleball (in addition to what will be updated in this page). You can visit this Pickleball blog page now by simply clicking on "Pickleball" under "Weblogs" in the upper left hand corner of this page. Also on in the upper right hand corner of this page you can get up to date Pickleball News placed there by MSN or view my Special "Badminton Briefings" updated by Google every 24 hours. Watch this site for more news on the growth of a club and a formal program as well as scheduled tournament play. This site by the way is syndicated by RSS, a service available and free to you, to keep you if you update whenever I make a change to the site and tells you exactly what has changed. Like the sound of that????? If so you can becme a subscriber by going to Weblogs, click on Pickleball and on the blogpage that comes up,in the upper center, you will see a bar titled Syndicated Options. Chick on "what is This" and read all about this great tool to help you stay up to date. | 
