In addition to the sheer fun of them, Woody's and the like take a burden off of regular golf courses, welcoming novices, seniors, women, minorities, and people just messing around. We see them for a year or two on the range, then on the course. Then we don't see them much. Woody's is also a place where I can learn to hit a new club or drop off my son and his buddy for a Saturday-afternoon loop of their own. Woody Wood himself laid out the course and, even as par-3 courses go, it is not a towering achievement.
Greens tend to be small, round and flat.
Bunkers are few. There is one pond, but it's not very threatening as ponds go. What teeth Woody's has comes in the form of distance. Five of the 18 holes measure more than 200 yards, with one stretching to 246 and another to 228. For a lot of golfers, anything more than 200 yards is a short par 4.