Much like deep-sea diving in a lobster costume or beating Pitfall!, golf requires practice, patience, and an awareness of water traps. Prepare for hidden challenges with today's Groupon: for $125, you get unlimited driving-range usage for the 2011 season and two rounds of golf with a golf cart included at Royal Scot Golf Club (up to a $322 value).
Rated among Golf Digest's 2009 Best Places to Play, Royal Scot's course unfolds in a gentle expanse of manicured meadows fringed by fertile forest, drawing a dedicated crew of daring drivers and patient putters. Blossoming beginners and seasoned slicers need not regard tee time with trepidation, as the resident golf gurus have built a fully irrigated training facility that features a grass tee-off area, markers out to 250 yards, and a warm-up green populated with gaping clown mouths. Once completely calibrated, newly confident crack shots can grab their golf carts, perfect for off-roading on sidewalks, driveways, and giant windmills. With today's deal, each purchased round involves a jaunt down all of Royal Scot's 18 fairways. A traditionalist's playground, 10 of the holes frolic past or over watery obstructions, and the other 8 prefer to simply lie out in the sand traps and sun themselves.
After the game, hungry hitters will find suitable satiation in the two full dining rooms and bars located on the premises. Workaholics and eBay enthusiasts can stave off withdrawal by accessing the free wireless network in the pro shop's bar and grill. Golf supplies and veteran instructors are available at an additional cost for patrons who find themselves losing the golf balls they've thrown at beginner instructors.
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The Groupon Guide to: Meteorology
One of the most confusing of the "ologies," meteorology is actually the study of weather, just as weatherology is the study of meteorology. Here are a few ways you can predict the weather yourself, so you never have to watch the news or talk to anyone else ever again:
- Hold a dampened finger up in the wind. Depending on which side of your finger gets cold first, you may be inside of a tornado.
- If you don't like the weather in your city, wait five minutes. If your uncontrollable rage has not subsided after five minutes, move to a different city.
- If your grandfather's old knee injury starts acting up, it means a storm is coming—a metaphorical storm symbolizing the inescapable perils of old age.
- Remember, a sun wearing sunglasses means a heat wave is underway, just as raisins wearing sunglasses indicate an approaching "cool" front, and a sun wearing sunglasses holding two scoops of raisins means a 90% chance of a complete breakfast.
- You can tell how far away the center of a storm is by counting the seconds between lightning and thunder then multiplying that number by the amount of time you've wasted listening to the sky.
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