The Wild Three

What makes it wild

A full nine is kept calm on purpose: across nine holes there is at most one island green, one crossing and one burn. The Wild Three takes those limits off. Holes stack features a nine never would — a burn and a portal on the same hole, boulders and lava right through the landing zone. There is no filler hole; each of the three is a decision.

Timing hazards are the exception. A windmill arm or a gust is closer to luck than to a choice, and with one go a day a hazard you could not read would decide your card. So a Wild Three carries at most one of them, and most sets have none.

One ranked go a day

You get one ranked go a day, free on every plan and with no account needed — the same deal as the daily nine. It finishes on its own result card and has its own Wild Three leaderboard. Tapping Wild Three again later brings that card back up, the way Play today does for the nine. It never touches your daily card or your streak.

Practice

Practice has a Wild Three tab next to the Daily 9 tab. It holds today's set, a fresh random set and every previous day's set. Today's set unlocks for practice once your ranked card is in, free and unlimited, so you can go back and work out what you should have done.

How to approach it

Because there are only three holes, every stroke weighs three times as much as it does in a nine. A safe bogey is rarely a disaster; a penalty stroke usually is. Read each hole fully before the first shot — the features are all visible — and pick the line that keeps the ball dry before the one that saves a few yards.