Chicago Golf Deals

Every year, Pacific gray whales and wild king salmon make a point to return to the Oregon Coast. But there's another migration taking place on these gorgeous shores, one that delivers spa treatments, fine dining, shopping, and golf to a species of vacationer that has mastered the art of R&R: the educated resort goer.

May 19 2012 by Living Social

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Though the Scottish shepherds who invented golf liked it for its challenges, Scottish sheep liked it because it gave them ample time to nap in shepherds’ pickup trucks. Find your own reason to enjoy golf with this Groupon.

PGA-certified instructor Dick Stilin's lessons focus on nailing the right techniques rather than avoiding the wrong ones. His experience includes teaching at golf academies and private and semiprivate clubs in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois.

Sugar Grove Golf Center helps novice golfers take up the game and veterans hone their hacks through clinics with accomplished instructors or solitary practice on the driving range. Private instruction and group golf clinics remedy troubled takeaways and rusty downswings during lessons held seven days a week. Accommodating schedules allow for lesson appointments until 11 p.m. as overhead lights keep the range open past dusk, preventing the need to set golf balls on fire to make them easy to find.

May 18 2012 by Groupon

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Bowling-alley lanes are covered in a thin layer of oil, facilitating a smooth trip for the ball and hilarious pratfalls for would-be pin burglars. Engage in slippery sport with this Groupon.

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Groupon purchasers must call ahead for a reservation; walk-ins are not accepted.

Though Funway Ultimate Entertainment Center sometimes features a discounted price online, this Groupon still offers the best deal available.

The designers of Funway Ultimate Entertainment Center built the interactive, 5-acre playground to give friends and family access to engaging activities any time of the year. During warmer months, kids and energetic adults transform into watery pinballs at the bumper boats and pilot speedy go-karts on a 700-foot outdoor course. Batting cages let guests knock the covers off balls and the rust off their swings, and soccer cages give footy fans the chance to test their kicking and trapping skills. Guests can also soak in rays while putting around a wagon-trail-themed mini-golf course sporting 16 tricky holes, and the trampoline-enhanced game of Jump Shot creates a whole new way to enjoy basketball.

When the weather is not as favorable, guests can head to the indoor area at Funway, which is packed with a plethora of activities for family daycations, including a modern 20-lane bowling alley and an old-fashioned roller rink with a choice of quads or inline skates. Bumper cars provide a dry alternative to the wet-and-wild bumper boats, and Rock & Roll indoor mini golf glows under black lights. Rounding out the rollicking activities is the arcade boasting more than 75 video games and pinball machines, along with the laser maze and hunger-quenching Big R Corner Bar.

May 18 2012 by Groupon

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You'd hate to see your child adopt your habit of picking up parking tickets, but today's deal from Zig-E's Funland makes collecting tickets fun and encouraged. Pay $12, and you'll get 20 arcade tokens and admission to four attractions (a $25 value). The arcade at this St. John fun center gives players of all ages the chance to test their skills and rack up valuable tickets. After your family is done trading in your tickets for super-cool prizes, head to the attractions -- where you'll choose from go karts, batting cages, mini golf, and the bungee trampoline. Even better, you can use your attraction admissions any way you like: Double up on mini golf, enjoy each attraction once, or use all four passes and burn rubber on the go kart course -- just remember to park your hot rod legally once you're done racing.

May 14 2012 by Living Social

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Playing a round of golf is a contest between man and nature, much like betting a tree it can't drink a gallon of milk. Pit yourself against the elements with this Groupon.

Bent-grass fairways and pristine greens connect across 6,484 yards to form Sunset Valley Golf Course’s 18-hole, par-72 course. A stream runs diagonally throughout much of the course, which is made navigable by a series of bridges golfers can cross on foot, astride a peppy golf cart, or on the backs of caddies training to be models for rugby shorts. Golfers must give their clubs a pep talk for occasional high-pressure shots, as water hazards come into play on nine holes and bunkers loom throughout the layout. A staff of PGA professionals presides over the pro shop, ready to schedule lessons to remedy chronic slices and manage the delicate egos of short irons.

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May 17 2012 by Groupon

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Playing virtual golf lets clubbers swing freely without the threat of an approaching storm system or the temptation to graze on particularly lush fairways. Enjoy simulated links with this Groupon.

Golfer's Paradise provides golf balls and clubs for those without their own equipment. All three options can be redeemed at the Golfer's Paradise locations in Chicago or Itasca.

Golfer’s Paradise’s friendly golfing confines foster year-round golfing within the indoor hitting stalls of their AboutGolf simulators. Using real clubs, players pulverize orbs into an immense screen that utilizes 3-D graphics to vividly emulate the immaculate greenery, calculated topography, and yellow-brick cart paths of some of the world’s most famous courses. Golfers can trace powerful drives into the windswept, simulated stratosphere of St. Andrews Old Course or evade the treacherous water hazards at Michigan’s Robert Trent Jones–designed course, The Heather. Along with technology that ensures each shot travels in a realistic manner, the simulators boast advanced swing-tracking sensors that collect data and even offer advice to correct unsound swings.

A staff of PGA-certified instructors oversees Golfer's Paradise's two executive-style lounges, offering expert advice to help transform swing imbalances into trustworthy motions. Pupils benefit from the instructors' hard-won wisdom combined with the computer-generated feedback of the simulators, which reveals detailed results of the position of one's clubface at impact and the effects of sweaty-palm syndrome.

May 16 2012 by Groupon

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Around your house, links are best known as the perfect side to any big breakfast. Show your son or daughter a more fun-filled meaning outside of sausage with today's deal from Sugar Grove Golf Center: Pay $20 for five 30-minute golf lessons for a child age 5 to 12 (a $40 value). Or, if you'd like to take a slice off your own handicap, you can swing five one-hour adult group golf lessons for $49 (a $99 value). By using a winning philosophy that combines trained muscle memory with simple mechanics, owner and golf pro Ed Hildebrand helps players of all ages and golf experience levels from throughout the area develop their skills to their fullest potential. Located just two miles south of I-88, Sugar Grove Golf Center's expert instruction can transform your game from scrambled to sunny side up.

May 10 2012 by Living Social

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Before miniature golf, mankind's only uses for black lights were checking clothes for excess lint and warding off shadow puppets. Use light's full potential with this Groupon.

Putting Edge's rates vary according to age.

Putting Edge's phosphorescent indoor mini golf course challenges putters with a network of greens hindered by glow-in-dark obstacles. Eighteen holes twist and turn throughout a darkened space populated by painted neon trees and glowing statues. A steady stream of upbeat music sets the pace for players as they navigate their way through the incandescent labyrinth to prove to competitors that their putting skills—like the bottom of Lake Michigan and Celine Dion's hair—are untouchable.

May 13 2012 by Groupon

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Golfers learn to see clubs as extensions of their own bodies by learning to eat soup with sand wedges and caressing their spouses' faces with putters. Foster club familiarity with this Groupon.

Each bucket brims with about 50 practice balls for golfers to hit toward marked distances at Inwood Golf Course’s driving range. Towering lights illuminate the verdant training area after sundown, permitting late-night swing sessions. Players can redeem their range buckets over multiple visits.

The Joliet Park District sprawls across more than 1,000 acres, engaging visitors with everything from sports to nature. Guests can wander through the foliaged paths of the Pilcher Park Nature Center and the organic community garden, or treat their senses to the floral colors and aromas that fill the bird-haven greenhouse. The 10,000-seat Joliet Memorial Stadium hosts high-school and college sporting events, while a dozen athletic fields fill with recreational players hitting baseballs, catching softballs, and spiking soccer balls when the referee isn't looking. During the summer, inner tubes transport patrons down Joliet Splash Station's high-speed water slides and 865-foot lazy river, and the glittery strands of Fourth of July fireworks color the skies above the stadium.

May 13 2012 by Groupon

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In addition to providing recreational enjoyment, riding in go-karts and playing miniature golf are excellent ways to prepare children for a future filled with high-speed car chases and malevolent windmills.

Tokens, go-kart rides, and mini golf passes may be split between any number of people. Arcade games cost between one and three tokens each.

Go-karts roar across the racetrack, bumper boats collide, and the cracking sound of confined home runs rings out from batting cages. This multisensory symphony fills the landscaped grounds of Fun Time Square, where attraction after attraction beckons visitors of all ages to kiddie train rides, 18 holes of mini golf, and the blinking lights of pinball machines in the onsite arcade. More intense thrills unfold at a paintball field, where abandoned cars, inflated cover, and war-torn art teachers guard players from enemy paint.

May 12 2012 by Groupon

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They say variety is the spice of life, and today's deal from Rink Side Sports and Family Entertainment Center serves up a flavorful buffet of family entertainment with a side dish of excitement. Pay $20, and you'll get one game of laser tag, one game of mini golf, ice skating admission with skate rental, and a $20 game card (a $44 value). This family-friendly facility, located inside the Gurnee Mills Mall, offers a large selection of options that are sure to spice up any same-old Saturday. The indoor ice skating rink, huge game room, indoor laser tag area, and blacklight mini golf will satisfy all of your family's entertainment cravings. Pick up enough vouchers to cover the whole group, and get ready to feast on fun that'll have everyone begging for seconds.

May 07 2012 by Living Social

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Ben Hogan called the pitching wedge "the equalizer" for its ability to rescue players from difficult lies and because he used it to enforce democracy. Add character to your clubs with this Groupon.

Western Acres Golf Course's prices vary depending on age and residency status.

Lombard Park District's Western Acres Golf Course features nine holes that unfurl across an expansive blanket of bluegrass characterized by mature trees, numerous sand traps, and three ponds that come into play on multiple holes. Each day from sunrise to sunset, the 3,051-yard course demands a repertoire of hazard-avoiding strokes, such as bending shots around imposing tree trunks or giving golf balls arm floaties to avoid sinking in the intersecting waterways.

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May 08 2012 by Groupon

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When Atlantis fell, the only survivors were its golfers, whose vast knowledge of water hazards saw them to safety. Hone game-saving skills with this Groupon.

Fountain Hills Golf Club's rates vary throughout the day.

Cleaved through 66 acres of emerald forest, the course at Alsip Park District's Fountain Hills Golf Club challenges players to control their shots down narrow fairways and avoid the bounty of sand traps strewn throughout. Golfers navigate the Bob Lohmann–designed course aboard carts equipped with GPS navigation systems, which help determine a lie's distance to the green or how many strokes it would take to make par into a moon crater. On the first hole, golfers must split a narrow fairway from the tee and keep their golf balls away from the out-of-bounds regions that run alongside, where errant golf balls flaunt hedonistic lifestyles with lethargic naps in the rough.

The practice center at Fountain Hills encompasses a lighted driving range with 30 hitting stations and a short-game practice area with a putting and chipping green. On the range, swingers have the option of hitting off a synthetic mat or real grass.

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May 07 2012 by Groupon

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The photographs of Alan Shepard hitting a golf ball on the moon mark the iconic moment just before a space windmill floated past and derailed his ball into a space moat. Keep your eyes on the prize with this Groupon.

$15 for 18 holes of glow-in-the-dark mini golf for four people (up to a $32 value)

$22 for a gaming outing for four people (up to a $46 total value)

Golfers can don a pair of Chromadepth 3-D glasses that amplify the facility's already-triplicate dimensions, and Alien Laser Blasters enable players to strike down invading extraterrestrials. Once golf scores have been tallied, quartets can slip tokens into arcade games.

Space Golf offers reduced rates for children and seniors.

The hallway of fluorescent doors gives off an eerie glow as the family walks by, their hands at the ready on the holsters of their Alien Laser Blasters. Suddenly, a hulking extraterrestrial creature pops out of nowhere and is immediately destroyed in a hail of lights and sounds. This otherworldly scene is a regular occurrence at Space Golf’s indoor mini golf course.

Dedicated to creating a unique experience, Space Golf illuminates its indoor lunar landscape with 18 challenging putt-putt holes alive with neon day-glo paint under showers of black light. Throughout the course, golfers nudge their iridescent balls past a synthesized landscape of posed alien life forms, flying saucers, and real aliens trying to blend in. Adding to the scenery are life-size character replicas from beloved sci-fi films such as E.T. and Star Wars beside neon yellow bricks that pave the 18-hole way for explorers. Along with mini golf, Space Golf’s Alien Arcade grants players a chance to hone their hand-eye coordination to win tickets for use at the prize stand, and chefs in the Sci Fi Café whip up pizzas, hot dogs, and hand-dipped ice-cream cones.

May 05 2012 by Groupon

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A pub with a relaxing atmosphere serves as the living room of a neighborhood, making it less imperative for citizens to lay down carpet in the cul-de-sac. Head home away from home with this Groupon.

A menu of satisfying pub and diner fare serenades taste buds with lunches and dinners of 12-inch pepperoni pizzas ($11.50), chicken caesar wraps ($7), and french-bread italian beef sandwiches ($7.50), as well as weekend breakfasts of biscuits and gravy ($3.95) and ham-and-cheese omelets ($5.95).

Dylan's Pub welcomes in familiar neighborhood regulars as well as new friends with frosty brews, entertaining bar games, and tantalizing feasts of sandwiches, wraps, and pizzas. Guests tuck in to lunches and dinners of sauce-slathered wings and barbecue pork sandwiches, or greet the day with weekend breakfasts of omelets, french toast, and biscuits. Nightfall finds crowds of revelers sipping skinny cocktails or cold beers as they challenge each other to bouts of NTN trivia, golf, bowling, darts, pool, and chariot racing. Live entertainment in the form of DJs, dueling pianos, and bandaroke entertain the masses, and upstairs, a private-party room provisions up to 100 guests with big-screen TVs, a jukebox, and piped-in DJ music.

May 04 2012 by Groupon

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Normally, we try to stay away from bright, radioactive glows. But with today's deal from Fore Family Fun Center, let the neon light rays pull you into electrifying fun. You'll pay $27 for one round of mini golf for an entire family -- up to five people -- along with a scrumptious 16-inch pizza (a $56 value). The black light mini-golf at this Oswego play palace is crawling with fantastic creatures and neon bright colors, and your crew will have a blast shooting for the low score. Have a bigger occasion to celebrate? Pay $129 for a weekend jump birthday party, which offers 40 minutes of private time in two bounce houses and a huge 16-foot inflatable slide for up to 20 guests (a $259 value). You'll also get 30 minutes in the party room, one round of mini golf per child, flash drive full of pictures, invitations, soft drinks, tableware, and more. Whichever option you choose, this deal's the guiding light for fantastic family fun.

Apr 30 2012 by Living Social

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Life on the links isn't always fair(way), but today's deal from Player's Club Golf Company in St. Charles puts you ahead of the game: Pay $15 for one Player's Club VIP Discount Book (regularly $30) that gives you access to 32 hand-picked premier courses in Chicagoland and the Midwest. This hole-in-one deal boasts more than $2,500 in savings -- from two-for-one access to the links to discounts on merchandise, lessons, and equipment to invitations to play in VIP PCG golfing events. Check out the luscious courses spanning Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin and join other golf enthusiasts on the beautiful back nines. Save some green and enjoy feeling like an ace the minute you pull this VIP book out of your rollaway bag at courses like Whitetail Ridge, Broken Arrow, Prairie Landing, and more.

May 03 2012 by Living Social

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Some things are more family friendly when done on a smaller scale, such as playing golf or sinking battleships. Enjoy an activity at its optimal size with this Groupon.

$14 for a family outing for two (a $28 total value)

$28 for a family outing for four (a $56 total value)

The Hub at Berens Park invites guests of all ages with a sprawling complex dedicated to wholesome fun. Groups can seek out par across the Hub’s 18-hole miniature golf course, which encircles a scenic water feature, or protect the strike zone at the batting cages, where softballs and baseballs dart over the dish at speeds ranging from 40 to 80 miles per hour. A circuit of mini geysers erupts throughout the 6,000-square-foot spray ground, where tykes can freely frolic and arm themselves with big squirts—refillable water toys available for purchase at the concessions stand—for leverage in juice-box hostage situations. The Hub also encompasses a playground with youth- and tot-friendly equipment, an indoor facility with restrooms and a concessions stand, and a party room families can rent for birthday parties or guileless secret-society meetings.

May 02 2012 by Groupon

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