The Four Fathers Pickleball Society is a membership-based club, with drop-in and rental options available for those who are not members and want to give our courts a try. We want those who come to our courts to love pickleball as much as we do, which is why we aren’t skimping out on the details that matter!

Less than a year after they had picked up their rackets for the first time in Naples, Mike, Marty, and the whole Four Fathers team began to turn dreams into reality with the launch of a pickleball construction project in the warehouse. The two makeshift courts were to be replaced with 6 indoor, all-season courts, complete with professional-grade  court and nets.

In July 2023, we dove head-first into the world of pickleball, and became a sponsor of the Southwestern Ontario Brewers, one of eight pickleball teams in the newly formed Canadian National Pickleball League. Our goal is to support emerging athletes in this amazing sport.

With the construction project in full swing, we anticipate that the next – and arguably most exciting – phase of this dream will come true in late 2023.

After returning home from his vacation, their minds were running wild with dreams of pickleball. Both owners knew that Four Fathers Brewing had some open space at the back of the warehouse. A pickleball club also aligned with their vision of making Four Fathers a destination brewery for Hespelerites and beyond.

Pickleball at Four Fathers had humble beginnings with two makeshift pickleball courts in the warehouse, complete with a paint-your-own court lines kit and pop-up nets. Regardless of the way it looked, the whole team at Four Fathers started to love pickleball the way Mike and Marty did. It was time to make this casual pastime with family and friends into something real.

It was during a vacation to Naples, Florida in early 2022 that owners Mike and Marty first played pickleball, the sport that seems to be exploding in popularity across North America and beyond. Both Mike and Marty had seen pickleball before in arenas during their kids’ hockey practices, but had never really taken it seriously.

While touring around Naples on vacation, they came across the East Naples Community Park, home of the US Open Pickleball Championships. They couldn’t believe their eyes – the facility’s 65 courts were full to the brim! What was all the excitement about?

With rackets in their hands and a humbling game lost against some friendly seniors, they soon realized that this was the start of a lifelong love affair with the sport.

Mike and Marty had fallen in love with pickleball, and wanted to bring their love for it home to Hespeler for their whole community to enjoy. This sport was easy to learn, exciting, and fun. But above all, it had the potential to become something big in their little corner of the world.