Golf in Phoenixville

Golf is a sport of physical precision and aerial dynamics, won and lost upon the pendulum of your swing. Use today's Groupon to brush up on your golf physics and practice blasting balls with your refined stroke. For $30, you get a 30-minute video swing analysis (normally $50) and large bucket of balls ($10) from Par Breakers Golf Academy, a $60 total value. This comprehensive indoor golf facility is a short 30-minute golf-cart trip from Philly in Oaks.

The Director of Instruction at Edinburgh USA Golf Academy and PGA-certified instructor Adam Guili teaches swing-honing wisdom and results-oriented practice techniques accrued through a 14-year teaching career. Adam’s teaching philosophy is based on the notion that a sound short game and a simple golf swing are crucial to achieving success on the course, and he helps golfers develop a tension-free motion. During lessons, Adam can address any on-course concern, such as how to add length to drives or how to extract shirttails from ball washers.

Supreme Golf makes maintaining an oft-pricey golf addiction a bit easier on the wallet by granting golfers discounts at golf courses and golf schools, as well as cutting the price of books, golf clubs, and nutritional supplements. Golfers can enjoy relaxing, discounted rounds at area courses in cities across the country including such area courses as Bear Creek Golf Club in Dallas, Gateway National Golf Links in St. Louis and St. Andrews Golf and Country Club in Atlanta, soaking in the sights and badgering local pros for analysis of the annual caddie draft.

The Austin BagTag serves as a VIP pass for golfcionados who wish to muster extra value out of their swinging season. BagTag holders can waltz into any of five participating courses and, with the purchase of a cart rental, can putt and wedge their way through some of the area’s finest golf terrain. Golfers may play one round of golf anytime on Mondays and Thursdays, as well as another on Fridays and Sundays after 1 p.m., for a total of two rounds per course. As you sample the lush courses, you'll have plenty of opportunities to practice using a 7 iron as a machete in thick foliage, “accidentally” cast a crocodile shadow puppet on putting lines, and peruse the latest issue of Golfweek to entertain your eyeballs during especially long cart rides. Embark on a bevy of memorable golf adventures with today’s Groupon, or gift your golf-lovin' pa a birthday present that'll get more use than last year's misshapen ashtray necktie.

Linfield National Golf Club's 18 holes keep golfers on the edge of their cleats with landscape features and obstacles borrowed from various styles of course. The links-style sand bunkers are plentiful and deep. Traditional distractions, such as water hazards and dense lines of trees, demand shrewd club choices. The 6,164-yard course's undulating fairways force golfers to leave their unicycles at the clubhouse as well as figure slope into every swing calculation.

Though it's often said that the game of golf requires a lifetime to master, it seems the world neglected to mention that to Philadelphia Golf Lessons’ maestro Adz Kozlowski. Adz's ascendancy to membership in the PGA of America required only eight years; he first started golfing as a 14-year-old and won his pro certification by the age of 22, beginning a 20-year-and-running career as a reputed instructor with an impressive competitive resume, as evidenced by the sizzling round of 67 he carded at a 2006 New Jersey pro invitational.

Adz focuses on making the most of his pupils' natural swing motions by placing emphasis on the "impact position," or the orientation of the clubhead as it makes contact with golf balls or neighbors' flowerbeds. Adz has also created two golf instructional DVDs—"'N Synch Golf" and "Stroke Savers Golf"—which cover concepts such as how to adapt a smoother swing tempo, tackle every type of short-game shot, and hypnotize fellow golfers into giving pupils a gimme on any putt within 10 feet of the cup.