Recent innovations in miniature golf include nano-mini-golf, whose microscopic windmills and tiny metallic children have many promising medical applications. Stick to mini-golf on a visible scale with today's deal: for $5, you get one admission to play 18 holes of mini-golf (up to an $8.50 value) at Par-King Skill Golf in Lincolnshire. Buy up to ten of today's Groupon to acquire an entire summer of miniaturized fun for the entire family, babysitting-adventure team, or coven. Only four Groupons can be used per group at one time.

Par-King Skill Golf has been churning out rounds of family-friendly fun for the Chicagoland area since the 1950s. With two separate 18-hole courses, six water challenges, twelve moving obstacles, numerous curbs, and surprising elevation changes, Par-King is a step up from the flat mini-greens of yesteryear, and 3 club-lengths more entertaining than the regulation-sized greens of normal-sized golf. Play a full 18 holes as you gape and gander at twirling clowns, roller-coaster ramps in the vein of Rube Goldberg, elaborately-painted totem poles, and recreations of famous landmarks such as Mt. Rushmore and the Sears Tower. This colorful landscape of golf-based adventure is refurbished and repainted every winter to provide a consistently-beautiful, clean, and safe experience during April to October operations. Although the park is family-oriented, they maintain a stout 48-inch height requirement to play or playact in the playing area; this is enforced purely with safety in mind, as the challenging course terrain may prove hazardous to the diminutive.

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Reviews

Yelpers give Par-King Skill Golf 4.5 stars:

• A staple of my suburban adolescence, I've been here more times than I can count. – Ellen S.
• I loved going here as a kid, in high-school, and even when my friends are bored and we want to knock around some golf balls. – Justin W.