Like suntans and the ability to throw knives at apples on top of totem poles, golf skills disappear if you don't keep working at them. Keep the magic alive with today's Groupon to Paragon Golf Center in Duluth. Choose between the following options:

• For $29, you get four hours in the center's state-of-the-art, automated-tee driving range, including unlimited range balls (a $60 value).
• For $99, you get admission to four one-hour, ladies-only group golf lessons led by instructor Peter Yum, including video swing analysis (a $70/lesson value), as well as four hours in the center's driving range (a $60 value) with unlimited golf balls (a $340 total value).

Paragon Golf Center's three-level, 90-stall driving range provides a weatherproof, technologically sophisticated haunt for honing the subtle science of golf's pendulous swing. Today's first option grants duffers unlimited balls for four hours of range practice in one of the facility's covered driving bays, which render cold fronts and heat waves irrelevant with heaters and heavy-breathing snowmen. Each stall also boasts a mirror to help players scrutinize their swings, along with automated-tee technology that obediently places a ball on the hitting mat on command and makes occasional, off-color remarks about an impending robot uprising.

Female fairway fiends looking to enlist human expertise can snatch today's second option for four small-group (six students or fewer) clinics with Peter Yum. The clinics cover all manner of golf shots and skills, and Peter even employs video swing analysis so that pupils can compare their forms and plaid pants to those of the game's all-time greats. After each clinic, participants receive an hour of unlimited range balls to commit renovated techniques to muscle memory.