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Category - Golf Course Reviews — Nova Scotia

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Exploring Nova Scotia Golf: Northumberland...

With the pandemic still very much with us, the possibilities of traveling outside one’s own province to play golf could be slim to none. Maybe later in the summer or into the fall and when most Canadians have had a second dose of vaccine...

What a finish - 17 and 18 hug the ocean at Cabot Cliffs

Busy summer on Nova Scotia courses

  It was a great summer for golf and tourism in Nova Scotia and in particular Cape Breton Island. The slide of the Canadian dollar and the Trump Bump helped boost the number of golfers and tourists to the Island. For those of you not...

How good is Cabot Links?

That’s the question that I left wondering about after having played it four times last week. Including the two rounds I played last year and the couple of 10-hole loops I had in July, I’ve tackled the course enough to know many of...

Course Review: Le Portage (Cheticamp, NS)

Course Review: Le Portage (Cheticamp, NS) Designers: Bob, David Moote and Terry Burns The scorecard: Le Portage has often been billed as part of the top four courses in Cape Breton, but to my way of thinking it was always a bit off on its own...

Cabot Links Hole-by-hole: 13 to 18

The 16th green at Cabot Links   Previous hole-by-hole writeups on Cabot: Holes 1 through 6 Hole 7 through 12 Course preview (October 2011)     13 (443 yards): One of a series of long par fours on the back nine at Cabot, this one...

Course Preview: Cabot Links exceeds...

How good is Cabot Links? I can’t seemingly go anywhere these days without someone asking me, whether it was the caddymaster at the course (a reader of this site apparently), or the guy I bumped into today on the range at Eagles Nest who queried...

Course Preview: Cabot Links (Inverness, NS)

Course Preview: Cabot Links (Inverness, Nova Scotia) Architect: Rod Whitman (2011) The Scorecard: “Are you going to play?” The question is asked of me by a middle-aged women strolling with her young son as I walk from the parking lot of an ice...

Course Review: Highlands Links (Ingonish, N...

  Course Review: Highlands Links (Ingonish, NS) Architect: Stanley Thompson (1941 The Scorecard: I’ve been coming to Highlands Links for more than a decade, making six or seven pilgrimages to what I consider the most intriguing golf course in...