I've played it twice over the summer. It actually has 4 par 3's. Two (3 & 15) really long and two (5 & 17) moderately short. It's been rated at 76.8 from the tips which would make it the toughest in Canada, I think. It's sloped at 146 from the tips, but I can't imagine why any bogey golfer would want to play from back there. Even the Blues at 6400 yards is a stern test.
The bunkers are the most penal I've seen anywhere (at least in Scotland you can usually play the ball ot sideways or even backward in one shot). These bunkers have random fescue patches that can be 2 or 3 feet high, in the bunker, and the bunkers are all ringed by ragged edges of a couple of feet of similarly high fescue. It's quite possible to lose a ball in the bunker surrounds. Although it creates an interesting look, it creates some shots that are almost unplayable. Not sure what the point is.
There are some marvelous holes, the short par 3 5th, followed by the drivable par 4 6th, from an elevated tee straight down a bunker strewn fairway to a green backed by a pond, the risk/reward par 5 16th, and the uphill par 4 18th, cut along a ridge, come to mind.
Then there are some silly holes; for example, the par 650 yard par 5 6th is a long slog driving off over a pond to a fairway that has two columns of penal bunkers up the left centre and right centre of the fairway. It takes a mathematician and the yardage book to plot how to weave shots between the bunkers or over one and short of the next. It creates strategy, but is way overdone, especially on such a long hole. The two long par 3's, each around 250 yards, also have perched greens with serious runoffs and guarded in the front quarters by deep penal bunkers. It's impossible for us mere mortals to even hold the greens with the long clubs we have to use to reach them (even from the middle tees).
The course is completely fescue, and is still patchy in many fairways (not a long enough grow in period?)
There are some quirky touches, like 5 foot flag sticks, which play havoc with your depth perception and make some greens appear to be sunken when they're not.
The green complexes are all challenging, most with severe undulations, runoff areas, and deep bunkers.
This course looks different from anything in this area, and certainly plays hard from any of the tee blocks. On balance, there are probably more interesting holes than frustrating ones, so it's well worth a play - especially now that their afternoon rates are down to $80, including cart.