Like their human counterparts, golf-ball dimples signify a fun-loving spirit and the aerodynamic advantage of being used as trebuchet ammunition. Showcase smiling cosmonauts with today’s Groupon to Golf NYC's Flushing Meadows Golf Center. Choose between the following options:

• For $18, you get two miniature-golf admissions and two sets of large sodas, fries, and hamburgers or hot dogs (up to a $35 value).
• For $34, you get four miniature-golf admissions with four sets of large sodas, fries, and hamburgers or hot dogs (up to a $70 value).

Flushing Meadows Golf Center’s turf-padded miniature-golf fairways careen over 18 holes on a course suitable for all ages and skill levels. Putter-jockeys herd brightly hued charges around waterfalls, streams, tears in the space-time continuum, and other opulent ball-beckoning obstacles. The course welcomes play during daytime hours as well as fully lit nighttime games, simulating the perpetually bright dream world of solar-oven owners everywhere.

The course offers free parking and is also easily accessible by public transit, deeming disobedient ostrich caddies a thing of the past.