Golfweek came out with their latest rankings featuring 3 DeVries Designs courses.
Kingsley is 22nd in the Top 100 Modern
Greywalls is 82nd in the Top 100 Modern
Pilgrim’s Run is 12th in Michigan’s Top You Can Play
Mike featured in the Michigan Golf Journal
Tom Lang wrote an article about Mike with a closer look into Greywalls and Diamond Springs.
"Like many golfers, course designer Mike DeVries of Traverse City is a huge fan of legendary designer Dr. Alister MacKenzie...DeVries grew up in Northern Michigan's Frankfort area, home of MacKenzie's masterpiece at Crystal Downs."
Kingsley and Greywalls Among The Best Golf Courses in Michigan
Golf Digest has ranked Kingsley at #4 and Greywalls at #10 this year among the best golf courses in Michigan! See the full list here...
Washington vs. Michigan Courses on Morning Drive
Kingsley Club, Greywalls, and Pilgrim's Run mentioned as examples for the best courses in the state!
DeVries courses in Golf Week rankings
Top 100 Modern Courses
Kingsley #21 Top 100 Modern Courses
Greywalls #77 Top 100 Modern Courses, #2 in MI for Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play
Best Courses You Can Play
Pilgrim’s Run, #15 in MI for Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play
Best Classic Course
Meadow Club, #133 in Golfweek’s Best Classic Course, Next 100
Siwanoy CC, #150 in Golfweek’s Best Classic Course, Next 100
2010 Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play
On Golfweek’s 2010 BEST COURSES You Can Play for Michigan, Greywalls is #2, Pilgrim’s Run is #18, and the Mines stays at #19. Nice to see continued support and enthusiasm for these fine courses. If they had a national listing for courses under $30, Diamond Springs would certainly be a worthy candidate for that list.
Moving on Up
Golfweek magazine’s annual “GolfWeek’s Best” issue sees Greywalls jump up to #79 on the Top 100 Modern Courses, while Kingsley is stable at #19 in the country. These courses continue to be recognized for their fun, playable, and exciting golf.
Greywalls on the Cover of GolfWeek
A shot of the 5th green at Greywalls is featured on the cover of the magazine’s annual “GolfWeek’s Best” issue, which lists the country’s top 100 courses in Classical (pre-1960) and Modern (post-1960) eras. Greywalls debuts at #92 in the country, joining Kingsley, which is at #20 and has been a staple on the modern list for many years.
In the listing for public access courses in Michigan, Greywalls is #3, Pilgrim’s Run is #17, and the Mines debuts at #19 for the state.
God of the Greens: Mike DeVries
Traverse City’s Mike DeVries has gone from mowing fairways at Frankfort’s tony Crystal Downs to designing some of Northern Michigan’s sweetest links. This year GolfWeek Magazine named the DeVries-designed Greywalls course in Marquette No. 3 in the state, and Kingsley Club, just south of Traverse City, No. 20 of the Best Modern Courses in the nation. We caught up with the wunderkind between trips to Texas, where he’s carrying out the decades-lost design of a course MacKenzie masterminded in 1930.
Golf Chicago Magazine features Greywalls
Since 1926, the Marquette Golf Club on the north shore of Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula has provided some of the most scenic golf in the Midwest. With the opening of Greywalls, the most talked about new course in the Great Lakes region in 2005, the next chapter in golf history at Marquette has begun - and it promises to be an illustrious one.
Golf Digest on Greywalls
America's Best New Courses
Golf Magazine: Top Courses You Can Play
DeVries used the exposed granite [at Greywalls] in every way possible - as jagged hazards along fairways and as aiming points behind greens.
Golf Magazine: Greywalls
A new course near Lake Superior on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Greywalls really rocks.
The Golfer: Greywalls listed in Best New Courses
Most golf courses are like wine, requiring time and the subtle ministrations of nature to comfortably settle into their surroundings and to soften their rough edges. Still, certain wines are ready to be enjoyed at a younger age. So too the finest of the new courses, like Beaujolais Nouveau, have character that is immediately and undeniably unique.
Golfweek: Greywalls, America’s Best
On my exclusive Yikes-meter scale of 1 to 10, this course starts at an 11.
Michigan Golf: Greywalls & Mines
Two New DeVries Deisgns: Greywalls and The Mines