Minigolf

Minigolf is golf with the boring parts removed. There's no drive, no fairway and no walking - just a putt, an obstacle and the specific irritation of watching it lip out.

Mini Golf Saga is the course-by-course one, where each hole is designed around a trick you're meant to spot. Tiny Golf King keeps things quick, and Mini Golf Battle and Clash of Golf Friends both turn it into a contest, which changes your shot selection entirely. Sky Golf is the one that stopped worrying about physics being realistic. None of them take long, and you'll have worked out what a hole wants long before you manage to do it.

There are 5 free games under this tag, all playable in the browser with nothing to install, and you won't need to know anything about the real sport to be good at them.

The wider sporting shelf is Sports games, and Casual Games covers the low-commitment end.