Golf, like performing dental surgery, requires intense concentration, specialized equipment, and a willingness to reach into dark caverns to retrieve little white objects. Hone your game skills with today’s Groupon: for $55, you get three private golf lessons with Bobby Saavedra at The Practice Tee Golf Academy (up to a $180 value).

At The Practice Tee Golf Academy, certified golf guru Bobby Saavedra supplies golfers of all skill levels with tips, tricks, and tools to help lower scores and boost course performance. Saavedra imparts his club-wielding wisdom in three private one-hour sessions set against a backdrop of sprawling Arizona desert. Adopting a custom-fit teaching methodology, Saavedra establishes each student’s goals, then crafts lessons based on individual swing style, range of motion, and aptitude for matching argyle patterns. The program shows golfers simple ways to tweak their strokes, possibly yielding more consistent ball contact, control, and an increase in ball-lobbing distance. After stitching up sinister slices and straightening rusty hooks, swingers-in-training can kick back with a complimentary DVD that allows them to witness the transformation of their swing from lesson to lesson as well as a montage of baby-sloth shenanigans.