Well-rounded golfers must master a variety of skills, including driving, reverse putting, and suppressing the part of the brain that associates high scores with victory. Chip away at preconceived notions with today’s Groupon to Catalina Island Golf Course in Avalon. Choose between the following options:

• For $44, you get a golf outing (up to an $89 total value) that includes:
• An 18-hole round of golf (up to a $56 value)
• A cart rental (a $33 value)<p>
• For $55, you get a golf outing (up to a $119 total value) that includes:
• An 18-hole round of golf (up to a $56 value)
• A cart rental (a $33 value)
• Rental clubs (a $30 value)<p>

The nine-hole Catalina Island Golf Course reigns supreme as one of the oldest golf courses west of the Mississippi, originally sculpted into place in 1892 and since updated to stretch across 2,100 yards of scenic maritime terrain. Golfers enjoy an 18-hole experience by looping the 9-hole layout twice over, as two deviating sets of tees add a sense of variety and help to suppress bouts of déjà vu. The course’s narrow corridors snake through the rising crags of a canyon as it gradually slopes toward the coast, challenging golfers along the way with small greens and cavernous bunkers.

A golf cart helps players nimbly negotiate the emerald links, pausing only to take in the breathtaking scenery, gawk at a passing deer or hawks, or unearth the childhood footsteps of Tiger Woods, who twice played the course as a junior and is rumored to have buried his ethereal divot tool amid the deep rough. A significant site in golf history, the course also hosted the Bobby Jones Invitational Tournament from 1931 to 1955. Golfers in need of a set of clubs can purchase today’s second option, which nets them a bag of dependable TaylorMade woods, irons, and modified crowbars.