Golf balls, like shoulders and the tastiest of taco dips, are only satisfied when properly chipped. Work out pent-up pendulum gesticulations with today's Groupon: for $81, you get three rounds of golf (up to $37 value each) and cart rental (up to $16 value each) at Joliet Park District courses. This Groupon is valid for one round of golf at each of JPD’s three golf courses: Woodruff, Wedgewood, and Inwood.

With the earliest course opening in 1926, Joliet Park District has spent the past near-century carefully tweaking the terrains to maximize challenging holes and playability. Woodruff's 85-year history has left the course mellow and fastidiously manicured with a picturesque rolling landscape. Inwood presents a more challenging jaunt, demanding a certain precision with strategic course management, accurate iron play, and whispered encouragement to putted balls on the fast greens. Built in 1970, Wedgewood is a par 72 course that presents water hazards on nearly half of the holes, and wind is almost always a factor that heckles golfers midswing.

Each course offers an array of amenities for legitimate links lovers, each selling and servicing irons from their pro shop and easing eagle-envying tensions from their respective concession stands. The new cedar clubhouse at Woodruff boasts a comfortable lounge and roaring hearth, and Inwood is equipped to test tee-ups with a lighted driving range, large practice putting green, and practice area for chipping, pitching, and building bunker sandcastles.