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 Takaya Golf Centre in North Vancouver. Choose between the following options:

• For $16, you get 5 regular buckets of driving range balls (a $32.50 value).
• For $25, you get 10 regular buckets of driving range balls (a $65 value).<p>

A stately, two-tiered tower of hitting stalls rises over a verdant field peppered with targets at the peaceful Takaya Golf Centre driving range. Each regular bucket brims with 75 balls that willfully await their journey into the atmosphere, and floodlights illuminate the 78 hitting bays for nighttime practice. All but 20 of the stalls are covered to protect players from the elements as they launch power-draws onto the distant targets that populate the 270-yard range. Along with clearly marked yardage signs, the target field sports wide hoops at various distances to emulate greens and attract any alien spacecraft hovering nearby.

Though Takaya Golf Centre sometimes offers competing discounts online, this Groupon still offers the best deal available.