Without golf, our nation's naturally occurring golf courses would likely be used for less-peaceful purposes, such as testing marmalade-filled bombs on the fairway and wrestling alligators in the sand traps. Fulfill the course's club-and-ball destiny with today's Groupon: for $35, you get 18 holes of golf plus a cart at Twin Creeks Golf Club, located in Allen. Groupon-wielding golfers can use this deal before 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.

Twin Creeks has delighted club swingers with its 6,840 yards of well-kempt greens, picture-perfect fairways, and zero instances of Chimera attacks. Sharpen your power-chipping technique at the course's practice area, which includes a groomed putting green for fine-tuning golfers’ responsibility of tapping their small orbs into the grass's peephole. Hop aboard a speedy golf cart and skirt around the course's landscaped beauty, including two tree-lined creeks. Golf challengers can acquire a rare eagle on the 4th hole, make birdie on the 17th by steering clear of its hidden lake, and even achieve the rare condor by chipping into a nest perched atop a life-sized model of the Missouri capitol building on the 14th. Golf is one of the few sports a person can successfully play for a lifetime, and the skills acquired from it come in handy for horror-movie auditions, weed whacking, and defending your home from a renegade windmill that can only be stopped by a properly timed ball that soars between the windmill's blades and lodges itself in its air-intake pipe. Convince a fantastic foursome of friends to quit the endless, bitterly cutthroat game of Foursquare and enjoy Mother Nature's diplomatic serenity with today's Groupon.

Golfers must call ahead to reserve a tee time.

Reviews

Eight reviewers on GolfLink give Twin Creeks Golf Club an average of four stars, and three Yelpers give it 4.5-star average, commenting on the challenging course:

• I play here at least once a month. Very well designed and maintained course. – gsekar, GolfLink
• Nice and challenging. – Larry_Tolson, GolfLink