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 […]
Cape Breton Golf Rides the Perfect Wave
August 15, 2012 by Brian Kendall
Filed Under: Canada, Destinations, Editor's Notebook, Golf Courses, Nova Scotia Tagged With: Baddeck, Bell Bay Golf Club, Cabot Links, Cabot Trail, Cape Breton golf, Cape Breton National Park, golf travel, Graham Cooke, Highlands Links, Ian Andrew, Inverness, links courses, Nova Scotia golf, Stanley Thompson, Tom McBroom, True Links
Canada’s First True Links Opens in Cape Breton
June 21, 2012 by Brian Kendall
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 […]
Filed Under: Canada, Destinations, Feature Stories, Golf Courses, Nova Scotia Tagged With: Bandon Dunes, Bell Bay Golf Club, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Blackhawk Golf Club, Cabot Links, Cape Breton, Cape Breton golf, Dundee Resort and Golf Club, Glenora Inn and Distillery, golf travel, Highlands Links Golf, Inverness, Inverness Raceway, Le Portage Golf Club, Mike Keiser, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia golf, Rod Whitman, Stanley Thompson, The Lakes Golf Club, True Links