“The Bus Field is great, but we worked the hardest on the maze,” he said.Īnother popular field is “The Junkyard,” where several of Simke’s old cars and pickups serve as barriers for players. Simke’s favorite field to design was “The Plywood City,” which includes an elaborate maze where teams compete against each other. Simke said the most popular field is “The Bus,” where players engage in combat around the remains of a 1962 Greyhound bus like that used on “The Honeymooners.” Hot Shots now has 10 fields with a variety of themes. “As it got a little crazier, I was much more worried about a paintballer getting hit by a golf ball than a golfer getting hit by a paintball,” Simke said. Soon the demand from an eager, paintball-loving public overwhelmed the driving range. THINGS TO DO: Check out these 14 activities in June County commissioners at the time were eager to give fans of the growing sport a place to play, and paintball came to Southern Pines in 2005. He went to the county with his plan: Open up the east side of Southern Pines as a paintball field and keep the driving range in operation. “I realized this was the perfect place for paintball,” Simke said. After learning more about the sport, the man who had dedicated his life to golf, including two years as Hall of Fame golfer Jack Nicklaus’ caddy, had an idea. “I said, ‘You did what?’” he recalled, smiling. Simke’s career took a turn in 2004 when he was introduced to paintball by his sons, who played the game at a birthday party. That’s when Jeff Simke came on board as the center’s golf pro. POST PICKS: Best waterfront restaurants in Palm Beach Countyīut the property has been an activities center for much longer - as evidenced by its 30-year-old clubhouse, a holdover from the land’s former life as Southern Pines Golf Center.įor nearly two decades, Southern Pines was a popular driving range, with a nine-hole, par-3 golf course added in 1994. Since 2005, the venue has offered paintball fans a place to gather and have mock battles at one of 10 fields on Hot Shots’ 20-acre site in the far southwest corner of Loxahatchee Groves.

This is the scene any summer day at Hot Shots Paintball, the last outdoor paintball range in Palm Beach County and one of the largest in Florida.

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