Attention-seeking infants and Carrollian creations aside, humankind has long avoided falling into holes. Today's Groupon glorifies subterranean exploration: for $27, you get 18 holes of golf, including golf-cart rental (up to a $61 value), from Silver Lake Country Club, located in Orland Park.
Silver Lake Country Club's two 18-hole golf courses date back to the glory days of Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Herbert "J. Edgar" Hoover, with the North Course offering 6,600 yards of long lanes and the South Course boasting 6,000 yards of narrow fairways and hazard-ridden greens. Endowed with flower gardens and computerized irrigation systems, both courses can expertly best players with their beauty or renegade sprinklers at any given moment. The club's eco-efforts have also earned recognition from the National Audubon Society. Strap an arsenal of blacksmith-crafted irons and woods to the rented golf cart (up to a $16 value) and set out for 18 holes ($45 on weekends and holidays, $37 on weekdays) on either course.
About a half hour from downtown Chicago, Silver Lake Country Club is a welcome respite from the random lightning storms consistently igniting the daytime skies of the Windy City. Check Silver Lake Country Club's tee times for availability. This Groupon is not valid on weekends before 10 a.m.
Reviews
The Silver Lake Country Club gets 3.5 stars from seven reviewers on GolfLink and 4.5 from six Yelpers.
- I'm an avid golfer and the course does not disappoint. – Josh K., Yelp
- Well run outing. Course conditions and most especially the greens were outstanding!! – ICSPOTS, GolfLink
Groupon Says
Mayday, Mayday! What Exactly Is Mayday?!
May Day, traditionally commemorated on May 1, celebrates a different event in different countries. In every country, however, "mayday" means distress. Here are other common distress words and their meanings:
- "Scrimshaw!" = "Help! A scoundrel has replaced my movie-theater popcorn with a box of dung beetles! Call an usher and a medical internist forthwith!"
- "Leggyo!" = "Alert the balloonist! The wicker basket of the airship is being attacked by herons thirsty for passenger-meat. Who shall be sacrificed?"
- "Ernest!" = "Warden, our worst fears have come true. That rubber-faced southern inmate has gained super-powers."
- "Zippydip!" = "Look, Jesse Owens is fighting a clowder of bats!"
- "Dracula!" = "We have a dracula problem."
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