Tap-In Tour: Watch Mini Golf

Mini golf built for the round screen on your wrist — and it plays on your phone too.

Tap once to start the power meter. Tap again to putt. The ball rolls round a closed loop until it stops, and it only drops if it stops in the cup. That's the whole game. Getting the weight of each putt right is the part that keeps you coming back.

FIVE HOLES, FIVE SHAPES
• The Green — a plain ring. Learn the meter here.
• Clover — three lobes, with sand in one of them.
• Dogleg — a deep bend at the bottom, with water in it.
• Ripples — a wavy rim that eats your speed.
• Crossover — a figure eight through the middle.

Every shape changes how far a putt really travels, so the timing you learned on one hole has to be relearned on the next.

HAZARDS
• Sand slows the ball hard.
• Stop in the water and the ball goes back to where you putted from, with a penalty stroke.

CRAZY GOLF PACK (IN-APP PURCHASE)
Five more holes built around the obstacles you remember from crazy golf:
• Windmill — time your putt through the turning blades
• Volcano — the cup sits in the crater on top of a hill; too soft and the ball rolls back to you
• Pendulum — a swinging hammer guards the first loop
• Conveyor — a belt runs back towards the tee; cross it with pace
• The Cave — the ball disappears under a tunnel
Buy it once and it unlocks on your watch and your phone.

PLAY A ROUND OR PRACTISE ONE HOLE
• A round is five holes, par 15. A scorecard after each hole shows how you stand against par.
• Pick any hole to practise on its own, as often as you like.
• Your best round, your best score on every hole and your holes-in-one are kept on the device.

BUILT FOR THE WATCH
• Standalone: installs straight to the watch and plays without your phone
• Plays offline — no wifi, no signal, no account (buying the pack needs a connection once)
• No ads and no tracking
• One-handed: everything is a tap
• Designed for round screens, with nothing cut off at the edges

ON YOUR PHONE TOO
The same courses, the same physics and the same two taps, with room to see your whole scorecard as you play.