Practicing your three-point shot or digging ditches to bury old cars is an ineffective method of improving your golf game. Today's Groupon takes a more direct route to sharpening your swing: for $25, you get a private golf lesson from PGA professional Jack Young, followed by a driving-range session with a large bucket of golf balls (a $58 total value). 10% of all proceeds will be donated to Breast Cancer Action. This Groupon is not valid toward group play.

Journey to Young's Vanco Golf Range in Vancouver, Washington, for a 40-minute, round-changing golf makeover and a bountiful bucket of superior-quality golf balls to whack your new talents upon. Jack has more than 20 years of experience teaching golfists who golf at all skill levels, from beginners to tournament champions. The lesson (a $50 value) takes place in a covered outdoor range where Jack's diligent eye, step-by-step coaching, and fancy video and computer equipment break down every aspect of your swing for careful analysis; the video swing analysis will allow comparison to the swings of over 200 golf professionals. Although he's yet to discover an effective way to teach his trajectory-altering telepathy to students, his before-the-strike tutoring works wonders, slicing hooks and hooking slices into fairway-splitting straight-shots.

Follow your lesson with a rousing display at the driving range. Implement Jack's wisdom with a large bucket of balls ($8 value), and amaze yourself with how straight your former slices fly from one of the range's 26 covered tees. With improved fundamentals, you'll no longer be ashamed to wear cashmere golfing knickers and monogrammed tees.

Reviews

Three Insider Pagers give Jack Young’s Vanco Golf Range a four star average, and former students provided testimonials on his website:

• Jack is the best instructor I have ever known, and beyond that he is one of the nicest persons. Over the last fifteen years he has been a great friend to me and my family. – Cody Upham, 2007 Rosauers Open Invitational winner
• They have a great pro shop here. I have been here several times and there is always room for another golfer. – carol w., Insider Pages