Long ago, Scottish polo players longed for a game where they could explore scenic terrain, ride an obedient mechanical horse, and wear more courageously plaid knickers. Marvel in their subsequent invention with today's Groupon: for $16, you get an 18-hole round of golf, a cart rental, and two tokens for the driving range at Kestrel Ridge Golf Club in Columbus (up to a $34 value).
Kestrel Ridge offers more than 6,000 yards of expertly maintained terrain that challenges pupils of the pendulum and guru golfers alike. The course layout, which can be easily navigated behind the wheel of a cart, features long, open fairways, strategically placed sand traps, rolling greens, and water hazards where balls go when feeling down about not being dimply enough. Warm up before playing, or take out post-round frustrations with two driving-range tokens (about 50 balls total), which can be used to whack orbs on a grass area or rubber mat.
You must be at least 18 years old to drive a cart.
Groupon Says
The Right Club for the Right Job
My uncle was an avid golfer, and before he tragically passed in a spectacular Christmas fireworks accident that lit up the night sky across two counties to the delight of children everywhere, he left me his prized set of golf clubs and this advice: "Always use the right club for the right job." I'm not always sure what that is, but, fortunately, he left me a list:
- Teeing off: 3-wood
- Getting out of a sand trap: lob wedge
- Soothing colicky baby: 5-iron
- Explaining Darwinian evolution to Grandmother: 5-wood or equivalent wood-iron hybrid
- Digging grave for pet canary: putter
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