Like many well-travelled golfers, the more I play links golf the more I love it. Indeed, no golfer’s education is complete without an extensive tour of the fabled links of Scotland and Ireland. Derived from the term linksland, links golf is played on ground uncovered when the sea receded and is without doubt the most […]
In Praise of Predator Ridge Resort
August 26, 2012 by
(Last updated February 2024.) Canada is home to an exceptional lineup of golf resorts—from Cabot Links and Keltic Lodge Resort and Spa in the East to Fairmont Banff Springs and Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge in the West. But one of my favourites, a place I’d visit every season if I could, is Predator Ridge Resort.
Cape Breton Golf Rides the Perfect Wave
August 15, 2012 by
Like the waves crashing against the shoreline at Cape Breton’s recently launched Cabot Links, golf’s hot spots come one upon the next. In their turn, the courses of Whistler, Prince Edward Island, Muskoka, Niagara, the Laurentians, the Alberta Rockies and more recently the Okanagan Valley have all been the toast of Canadian golf. Now, for […]
Canada’s First True Links Opens in Cape Breton
June 21, 2012 by
Has a Canadian golf course ever been more eagerly anticipated than Cabot Links? Touted as the country’s first true links, the dramatic seaside layout on Cape Breton’s west coast became an international flagship for the Canadian golf industry with its launch in 2012 and, not incidentally, the savior of Inverness, a former mining town that […]
Five Favourite Cape Breton Experiences
June 19, 2012 by
Despite my full rain gear, a steady cool drizzle and light Atlantic fog had me chilled to the bone after our golf round. Even a quick change of clothes and our rental car’s heated seats couldn’t stop the shivering. That’s how we ended up pulling in to the Wreck Cove General Store, on the famous Cabot […]
