The Property
Greywalls
Par 71, 6,828 yards across the southern edge of the Canadian Shield, two hundred feet above Lake Superior. DeVries has said the routing challenge was finding holes with rhythm and flow rather than a chain of wonder-holes — and he did it moving only about 40,000 cubic yards of soil and blasting just 3,000 of rock. Thirty-six bunkers on the whole property; the land does the rest. Scroll.
No. 1 · Par 5 · 580 yards
The Opening Argument
A ravine carry to a broad fairway, then a decision at the mid-fairway ridge: lay back and pitch blind, or chase a fairway wood for a clear look. The green slopes away from everything.
No. 2 · Par 4 · 425 yards
Down the Hill
The fairway tumbles toward a two-tiered green that tilts hard left to right — balls landing on the high side often ride down to the lower shelf. The ravine in front barks louder than it bites.
No. 3 · Par 3 · 175 yards
The Quiet Corner
A one-shotter tucked into a peaceful pocket of wetlands — the softest-spoken hole on a loud piece of land.
No. 4 · Par 4 · 425 yards
High Road, Low Road
A split-level fairway poses the question: the upper-left shelf is harder to find but shortens the hole and plays downhill; the lower right leaves more club, straight up the green's axis.
No. 5 · Par 4 · 310 yards
Where the Walls Speak
The namesake. A forced carry just to reach a narrow fairway that bends left between rock and woods, to a green sitting beneath a sixty-foot face of grey granite.
No. 6 · Par 3 · 190 yards
The Postcard
All carry across a chasm to a green with a false front and a firm back-to-front tilt. DeVries has said the sixth was essentially found during the routing rather than built — the most photographed hole on the property.
No. 7 · The Sentinel Stone
Over the Rocks, or Around
A rock cliff shoulders into the driving zone: the safe line leaves a long downhill approach, while a driver over the stone leaves a short, semi-blind pitch to one of the biggest greens on the course. The Fried Egg put it in its Great Golf Holes series.
No. 8 · Par 4 · 345 yards
The Sleeper
No sand, no water, no mercy. The fairway narrows to a canted shelf at driving distance, and the steep little pitch up to the green has ruined more cards than the ravines.
No. 9 · Par 4 · 390 yards
Around the Bunker
One large bunker at 240 sets the menu: carry it for a flip wedge, skirt it for a longer, angled approach, or lay back and take the blind shot. The elevated green marks the round's emergence from the granite graveyard — and from here on, Lake Superior keeps you company.
No. 10 · Par 4 · 335 yards
Looks Easy, Isn't
Short, straight, and wide — and quietly one of the trickiest greens to approach, played from an elevated perch with Lake Superior filling the horizon. From the right half of the fairway the putting surface angles away half-hidden; the left side is the honest line.
No. 11 · Par 4 · 390 yards
Into the Sand
The first serious bunkering of the round — eight cut into a heaving fairway, with a central one forcing the choice between a bold driver left or a layup and a blind approach into a punchbowl green.
No. 12 · Par 5 · 490 yards
The Breather That Isn't
Fifty yards of fairway, not a bunker or boulder in sight — and that very normalcy invites one swing too many. It opens the intimate sand-belt stretch where parallel holes lean close together.
No. 13 · Par 5 · 560 yards
The Long March
Reportedly DeVries' own favorite. Three honest shots, the last to a wild green set against the horizon, with a front-left bunker that quietly rewards those who flirted with the drop-off on their second.
No. 14 · Par 4 · 450 yards
The Approach
Bunkerless and brutal. The green begins at fairway level and then falls away left, right, and long — simply finding it with a second shot feels like the day's accomplishment.
No. 15 · Par 3 · 240 yards
Stone at Your Shoulder
A long one-shotter played with a rock hillside pressing in at the right and behind. There is room short for the honest miss — taking it is the smart play more often than not.
No. 16 · Par 4 · 370 yards
Cut the Corner
A dogleg right that tempts driver over the rocky hillside, with wetland waiting left. The square, raised green with its central trough is a knowing nod to Donald Ross.
No. 17 · Par 3 · 137 yards
The Short Goodbye
The shortest hole on the card into the largest green on the course — nearly 10,000 square feet whose slopes funnel anything timid into the hollows below. Sharp players scout the flag from the neighboring 11th tee; everyone else provides the entertainment.
No. 18 · Par 5 · 533 yards
Coming Home
A roller-coaster drop off the rock into the valley floor. DeVries considered bunkering it and chose not to — the cascading fairway pinches to twenty-two yards but gathers wayward balls back to the middle, and the knob in the green's center decides your approach. A finale built to send groups home smiling.