When Atlantis fell, the only survivors were its golfers, whose vast knowledge of water hazards helped them to safety. Hone game-saving skills with today's Groupon to Golf: Inside & Out in North Royalton. Choose between the following options:

• For $49, you get a one-hour golf-swing analysis (a $150 value).
• For $79, you get a golf package (a $250 total value), which includes:
  • A one-hour golf-swing analysis (a $150 value)
  • Custom club fitting (a $100 value)

Golf: Inside & Out’s resident golf gurus collaborate for a comprehensive approach to golf training, helping golfers on their path to mastering the technical, tactical, physical, and mental elements of the game. Drawing from a variety of golf instructional tomes, including Homer Kelley’s physics- and geometry-intensive book The Golfing Machine, instructors easily explain the subtle art-science of the swing, helping pupils identify the root causes of errant drives and the psychological bedrocks of obsessively using mulligans on every shot. As players pulverize golf balls at the studio’s indoor hitting bays, digital-video technology captures and analyzes every shot, using empirical data to find potential areas of improvement. Golf students benefit from watching a video of their swings in slow motion, helping them understand nuggets of corrective advice and sympathize with brutally compressed golf balls. Customers can also take home CD of their swing footage, available by request.

Golf: Inside & Out also helps aspiring Arnold Palmers refine their skills with advanced club-fitting services. The shop's high-tech module evaluates customers' putts and swings, then tailors a customized blueprint that helps determine correct shaft flex, launch angle, and grip size. The device can also clarify the most compatible ball for a particular club.

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Though frozen yogurt's tangy swirls are best known for containing less fat than ice cream, they also form Antarctica's foundation. Dive into a palatable paradise with today's Groupon.

The Deal

For $5, you get two 8-ounce Pleaser-size frozen yogurts with three toppings each (a $10 value)
For $10, you get a punch card for five 8-ounce Pleaser-size frozen yogurts with three toppings each (a $25 value)

• Choose from yogurt flavors such as:
  • Nonfat California tart
  • Cherry amaretto
  • Birthday cake
  • Non-fat, sugar-free vanilla or chocolate
• Choose from toppings such as:
  • Fresh mangos
  • Fresh kiwis
  • Butterfingers
  • Gummy bears

For $5, you get one-dozen miniature cupcakes (a $10 value)

• Choose from cupcake flavors such as:
  • Cookie dough
  • Peanut-butter cup
  • Chocolate-chip pancake

Bluekiwi

Behind Bluekiwi's sunny blue door, servers sprinkle dollops of nonfat frozen yogurt with fresh fruit and candy toppings. The management draws from a degree in hospitality with an emphasis on nutrition to craft wholesome icy treats and answer customer questions and concerns, while counseling them against common nutritional errors such as trying to eat plastic fruit. The rotating selection of fresh yogurt flavors, such as classic California tart, birthday cake, non-fat sugar-free vanilla or chocolate, and cherry amaretto, teem with calcium, potassium, and live active cultures. Containers of freshly hewed fruit line countertops alongside dry cereal and candy toppings, while a stock of miniature cupcakes can deluge taste buds with mouthfuls of peanut-butter cup, cinnamon, and red-velvet flavors. Blue tabletops and Frank Gehry–style stools allow customers to linger over treats and chitchat, while whiteboard walls allow them to draw out detailed map reminders of where they parked their cars.

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Like lawns or children, nails grow whether you're watching them or not. Baby your fingers with today's Groupon.

The Deal

$10 for a manicure (a $20 value)
$29 for a mani/pedi (up to a $65 value)

• Nails trimmed, filed, and buffed
• Choice of nail-polish color

$17 for Shellac manicure (a $35 value)

• Polish cured under UV lamp
• Protection against chipping for up to 14 days

Studio CEO

The stylists and cosmetologists at Studio CEO travel the country attending seminars and trade shows to stay on top of industry trends, a practice that helped the studio to earn nominations for best hair salon and hair color on Fox 8's Hot List. The studio arms its staff with products from top brands, as stylists transform 'dos with Goldwell hair color, and techs spruce up paws with OPI’s UV-cured Shellac and Axxium gel keratin covers. The salon and spa also carries hair-centric brands ranging from Moroccanoil and Bumble and bumble to Keratin Complex by Coppola, so that clients don’t have to maintain shiny locks by sticking their heads under automatic shoe buffers.

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Italian cuisine was born when, after building the city of Rome, Romulus and Remus discovered Greece didn't deliver to their new address. Taste the origins of an empire with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of Italian fare at Casa Perfetto.

Aromas of house-made meat sauce and sweet italian sausage waft from Casa Perfetto’s kitchen, where chefs busily pan sear seafood and drizzle olive oil over handmade pastas. Sautéed onions, prosciutto, and spinach swim in a jacuzzi bath of house wine sauce beside the chicken ala florentine ($18.99), and two links of grilled italian sausage ($16.95) cross out cravings for meat alongside onions and peppers. The shrimp marinara’s pan-seared sea candies dive into drizzled nets of extra-virgin olive oil ($17.95), and gnocchi dumplings served with a hearty helping of meat sauce ($14.95) hearken back to the potato-based ammunition of early Roman catapults.

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Massages soothe muscles sore from naps in uncomfortable chairs and long nights of aggressive rapid eye movement. Recover from relaxing with today’s Groupon to Integrated Massage Therapy and Wellness Centers. This Groupon is valid at the locations in Cleveland and Stow. Choose between the following options:

• For $39, you get a 60-minute chocolate-mint-cream massage (an $80 value).

• For $129, you get a 90-minute couples massage package (a $260 value), which includes:
  • A 90-minute couples chocolate-mint-cream massage
  • Aromatherapy neck wraps
  • Facials
  • Complimentary sparkling wine and chocolate

Integrated Massage Therapy and Wellness Centers’ licensed massage therapists soothe overworked muscles with ache-alleviating massages. During a 60-minute chocolate-mint-cream massage, clients luxuriate as therapists mollify muscular discomfort with flowing strokes and aromatic oils. Couples unwinding in tandem relax as an aromatherapy neck wrap treats nostrils to calming fragrances, and a facial revitalizes visages like swimming in a vat of spinach revitalizes Popeye. Groupon holders also enjoy complimentary sparkling wine and chocolate to relax bellies as well as minds.

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Fresh flowers spruce up Valentine's Day dates easier than making your own candy or paying your nephew to dress as a Cupid-themed living statue. Arm yourself with amorous bouquets with today’s Groupon: for $20, you get $40 worth of flowers and gifts from FTD. FTD offers same-day delivery in most areas for orders placed by 2 p.m. in the recipient’s time zone. Service or shipping fees vary widely based on order and delivery dates but typically range from $15.99 to $29.99. For detailed instructions on how to redeem your FTD Groupon, click here.

FTD steeps rooms in the fresh scents of spring with hundreds of thoughtful bouquets delivered by artisan florists or sheathed in gold organza and shipped in an award-winning gift box. Yield to Cupid’s arrow and persistent text messages by presenting a loved one with an FTD-exclusive Sweethearts bouquet, a heart-hued collection of red roses and burgundy mini carnations elegantly interspersed with sprigs of greenery in an etched glass vase ($44.99–$64.99). Or follow a more polychromatic path with the My Everything Valentine's Day bouquet, an unexpected marriage of deep-red roses and white Asiatic lilies ($29.99–$59.99). Red roses and pink lilies spring forth from a sculpted red vase in the Lasting Romance bouquet ($69.99–$94.99), and a spray of 12 long-stemmed roses ($49.99; $59.99 with vase) stands firmly on stems that measure around 16 inches without heels. FTD backs each floral arrangement with a satisfaction guarantee, which pledges that flowers and plants will remain fresh and keep their bedrooms tidy for at least seven days.

Those looking beyond the bloom can peruse FTD’s gift galleria, which encompasses a smorgasbord of specialty gifts, including jewelry and chocolates. Live plants, such as orchids ($39.99+) or miniature roses ($19.99+), outlive their clipped comrades with a simple regimen of watering and pruning, and silk floral displays brighten up sunless corners and survive solely on nightly bedtime stories.

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