World Pickleball Tour's Savannah Smash Hosts Amateur Fields Feb. 27–Mar. 1

Confusion over dates and venues shadowed the World Pickleball Tour’s Savannah stop, with an on-the-ground report naming Pooler as host Feb. 27–Mar. 1, 2026 and the WPT calendar listing a Savannah event Feb. 28–Mar. 2 at The Landings Golf and Athletic Club. The mismatch matters for amateur players who plan travel, entry and bracket assignments for round-robin pools and medal rounds.

An event summary provided to Amateur Pickleball states, "The World Pickleball Tour’s Savannah Smash stop ran at the Pooler Tennis and Pickleball Complex (Pooler, Georgia) across the dates Feb. 27–Mar. 1, 2026. The WPT event is strictly amateur and uses round-robin formats with medal rounds; the tournament attracted rou" — the final phrase is truncated in the supplied text. That report identifies the Pooler Tennis and Pickleball Complex as the site and explicitly characterizes the stop as strictly amateur using round-robin pools that advance to medal rounds.

The WPT’s published schedule excerpt supplied with this reporting is labeled "# 2025 tour Schedule" and lists a Savannah entry as "February 28 - March 2 Savannah, GA The Landings Golf and Athletic Club." That WPT schedule page also includes the tour’s contact block reading "GET IN TOUCH 22 E Gay St #700 Columbus, OH 43215." The calendar entry and the 2025 heading differ from the on-site report’s 2026 Pooler listing both in dates and venue.

Local promotion adds another name and affiliation to the mix. An Instagram post reads, "Savannah area picklers! We are back with the Savannah Amateur Open at Pooler Pickleball in Pooler, GA powered by Amateur Pickleball Association." That post confirms a Pooler facility called Pooler Pickleball and identifies the Amateur Pickleball Association as powering the event, though the post supplied here does not include event dates.

A separate headline claim that "dozens of brackets and results posted to tournament platforms" appears in the event title submitted with these notes, but neither the WPT schedule excerpt nor the Instagram copy supplied contains bracket counts or links to posted results. The original event summary’s truncated line "the tournament attracted rou" hints that a participation figure was intended but is not available in the provided material.

Key unresolved items remain: whether "Savannah Smash" and "Savannah Amateur Open" refer to the same tournament, which venue actually hosted matches on the cited dates, the definitive dates for the stop in question, the number of brackets and divisions, and which tournament platforms published brackets and results. With calendar and venue listings in conflict between the on-the-ground report and the WPT schedule page, confirmation from event organizers, the Pooler facility, or the World Pickleball Tour is needed to finalize results, medalists and bracket archives. The WPT contact address present on the schedule page is 22 E Gay St #700, Columbus, OH 43215.