Golf is one of the few sports a person can successfully play for a lifetime, and playing it ups the success factor for horror-movie auditions, weed-whacking jobs, and geometrically based A.C.T. questions. Stroke to immortality with today's deal: for $39, you get one round of golf with a cart, GPS, and practice balls (up to a $79 value) at Canyon Springs Golf Club, in Stone Oak. Your Groupon is good anytime Monday through Friday, and after 9 a.m. on weekends.

Swing through the beauty of Canyon Springs Golf Club, which dresses its 18 championship holes in the lush landscape and history of Texas Hill Country. Traverse your round on the course in style with a provided cart, and confidently plan your chip shot from the fairway to green with your provided GPS. The device might not keep your ball out of sand traps, but it will tell your location, and possibly that of the elusive Carmen San Diego. Between challenging hazards and well-maintained fairways, your day will be riddled with challenges and hopefully blessed by the course's typically ideal weather conditions.

The accommodating course was constructed amidst a Civil War–era homestead, with many of the original structures still standing and new buildings made from salvaged materials. Littered with National Geological Survey–registered caves and once yielding the remains of a saber-toothed tiger, the grounds promise a sense of reverence and discovery, including forcible self-discovery located deep within sandtraps.

Call seven days in advance to schedule your round.

Reviews

The editors of Golf Digest and five TripAdvisors rate Canyon Springs Golf Club four out of five stars and owl eyes, AVIDGOLFER magazine rated it 2006's best overall public golf course in San Antonio, and readers of the San Antonio Express-News awarded it a bronze medal for best golf course in 2009, amongst numerous other awards:

• Everything about Canyon Springs will dazzle you – the service, the challenging layout, the conditions, the rustic clubhouse, the cart girls, etc. – AVIDGOLFER
• Canyon Springs is one of the finest golf courses I have played in Texas...The course is not for the weak. It demands a confident golfer especially from the drive aspect.– A TripAdvisor Member, TripAdvisor