The dimples on a golf ball help it fly farther with greater accuracy, just as the dimples on a baby help it steal candy from gullible strangers. Find your adorably sporty sweet spots with today's Groupon: for $52, you get a round of 18-hole golf for two with a cart at Woodbine Golf Course (up to a $118 value), located in Homer Glen.
Designed by PGA golf pro Gordon Cunningham, the 6,020-yard Woodbine Golf Course envelops putters, chippers, and drivers in lush trees and quiet, natural-grass-preservation areas as they walk on fully watered bentgrass greens, tees, and fairways. Golfers hit draw shots around fairway-hugging trees while avoiding the course's five ponds and numerous bunkers. Plotted to challenge those with a low-to-high handicap or those putting with a Poseidon's trident, Woodbine's fairways and greens add up to a 68.2 course rating from the white tees, and a slope rating of 115. Golfers with today's Groupon will also save sapped shoulders by loading bags in a golf cart and zipping along fairways.
The clubhouse surrounds weary golfers with the comforts of a bar, stone fireplace, and flat-screen TVs, all under a vaulted ceiling with exposed wood beams. Diners can munch on sandwiches and salads while tabulating scores and phoning the Supreme Court to judge mulligan disputes. The pro shop is replete with balls, gloves, and golf attire for purchase and complete club sets are available for rental (not included with today's deal).
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Barbecue Secrets
Every barbecue joint boasts a secret ingredient or technique that makes its sauce unlike any other. Since most barbecue chefs have taken these secrets to the grave, here's a new list of public-domain barbecue secrets for the aspiring grillsman:
- Throw recipe thieves off your trail by filling your sauce with decoy ingredients such as talc, water, and heaping spoonfuls of rival sauces.
- Age your sauce in an oak cask for 15 years—it doesn't do anything, but you'll sure be hungry by then.
- Go bananas—add bananas to your sauce!
- BBQ is short for B.B. Queen—the wife of legendary bluesman B.B. King—and real barbecue sauce must contain exactly one of her soulful tears.
- As with success in any field, the real secret ingredient is confidence —except in barbecue sauces, in which it is horseradish.
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