Like painting a portrait or fixing a computer, completing a round of golf is always more impressive when it’s done in the pouring rain. Enjoy equally impressive fair-weathered fores with today's Groupon: for $45, you get 18 holes of golf for two with cart rental at Mainprize Regional Park and Golf Course in Midale (a $90 value).

Mainprize’s links-style golf course, designed by prolific course architect John F. Robinson, encompasses 18 holes augmented by lush fairways and meandering shorelines. Carts ferry players of all skill levels to one of four different tee boxes, where clubs send golf balls or repurposed snow globes flying over prairie-wool-covered valleys or plunging into the Rafferty Dam's dark depths. Afterward, golfers can relax in Mainprize's renovated lounge, replenish fuel reserves at the barbecue facility, or compose odes to individual leaves of grass at the practice putting green.