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Adam Clayman

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Re: Greywalls by Mike DeVries check out this comment
« Reply #25 on: August 23, 2008, 11:33:40 PM »
The routing at Greywalls is really special.
 Mike opens the show with a full on roller coaster ride. By the fourth, the golfer is either inspired by the heroic challenges, or, mumbling to themselves. On the surface the course looks like it might be a tad narrow. But there's plenty of room for options.
While most courses follow a formula of climaxing late, Greywalls is counter intuitive in this regard, easing the golfer with exceptional variety through to the end.
The conditioning is perfect for great golf. Not your typical Michigan swamp at all. The thump and humps reminded me of home. A compliment which should not go unnoticed.  ;)


"It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing your whole life." - Mickey Mantle

Jeff Tang

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Re: Greywalls by Mike DeVries check out this comment
« Reply #26 on: August 24, 2008, 10:27:31 AM »
I had the opportunity to play both Greywalls and Kingsley Club this Summer, in that order.  It's tough to talk about one course without mentioning the other given obviously both the architect and the location.  I thought both courses provided a tremendous amount of variety and used the sites to make the holes strategic when the land could have been used to make either course overly difficult.

Regarding Greywalls I agree with Adam in that I thought the course really opened with a bang and had a really good flow to it right through the end.  A good mix of long and short holes.  It was interesting to read one of Mike's comments on the Kingsley thread about how he looks at a series of holes rather than just individual holes because I think this is also very apparent at Greywalls.

I look forward to playing more of Mike's courses and given the success of these early efforts of his I'm guessing that he'll get increasingly better projects in the future.


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