{"id":629879,"date":"2026-06-09T20:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629879\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:49:07","slug":"old-joes-driving-range-in-sudbury-adds-padel-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629879\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Joe&#8217;s driving range in Sudbury adds padel courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Padel Evolution, a community-focused padel company, have built two courts on land leased by Old Joe&#8217;s in Sudbury, opening tomorrow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Vanessa Woodward, owner of Old Joe\u2019s for nine years, said: \u201cI think it will be very busy because padel&#8217;s very popular at the moment, and I don&#8217;t think there are any other padel courts in Sudbury.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Typically played in doubles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sudburymercury.co.uk\/news\/26062790.suffolk-padel-club-padall-launches-haverhill-sunday\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">padel<\/a> is a sport that originated in South America and is likened to a combination of tennis and squash, with back and side glass walls to play off.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Woodward has transformed a simple driving range into a thriving community hub, with adventure golf courses, a cafe, and a special needs centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It&#8217;s just fabulous now, a lot of families come here, so it&#8217;s not like a normal golf course where there&#8217;s a dress code and only adult golfers, and everybody&#8217;s got to behave themselves and keep quiet; it&#8217;s more of a family centre now,&#8221; Ms Woodward said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Woodward, who said she \u201ccan\u2019t wait\u201d, said players can book the courts exclusively on the Padel Mates app and hire the racquets from the front desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Padel Evolution, a community-focused padel company, have built two courts on land leased by Old Joe&#8217;s in Sudbury,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-629879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}