IVINS, Utah — Preparations are underway for next week's PGA Bank of Utah Championship at Black Desert Resort in Ivins, but amidst all the excitement, people are talking about... pickleball.

Already home to two professional golf tournaments, the resort is building a professional pickleball hub with a stadium court that will be completed by March. It will host the Greater Zion Cup, which will become the fifth major cup event in the Carvana Professional Pickleball Tour.

"It's a championship court with 1,000-seat grandstands that are permanent, not temporary bleachers, and then 21 courts that are all high technology," explained Black Desert Resort managing partner Patrick Manning. "We can track ball movement, how your body is responding to your swing analysis. During tournaments, the lines w

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