For directors of golf and food and beverage at destination resorts, the pickleball paddle program is a revenue and retention lever, not a checkbox on the master plan. Here is how to structure the loaner, retail, and gift tiers, and how the paddle should read next to the Titleist wall.

The pickleball request is on the board agenda. Residents want courts, or the courts exist and now the paddle question is unavoidable. Here is how to source paddles for an HOA community without over-buying, under-serving, or exposing the association to needless risk.