I first heard of the project that would become Cabot Links when I was at a dinner in 2004 alongside my friend Ben Cowan-Dewar and his girlfriend (later wife) Allie. The then tourism...
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Streamsong, Tom Doak and the Renaissance Cup
I’d never met Tom Doak — at least until last week. Sure I’d spoken to him on the phone, gone back and forth by...
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Course Review: Streamsong Resort (Polk County, Florida)
Course Review: Streamsong (Polk County, Florida) Designers: Red – Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw; Blue – Tom Doak...
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Will Cabot Cliffs exceed Cabot Links?
It is hard to determine whether a great geographic setting will turn into a great golf course. That much is certainly true. The...
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Bandon Dunes' Mike Keiser Talks Cabot Links
I’m just working through a feature on Cape Breton Island’s Cabot Links, the best new course I’ve seen in some time, and transcribed a recent interview I did with Mike...
A new player to the ratings game
A couple of months ago my former editor at T&L Golf (RIP) asked me about participating in a new world Top 100 panel for course rankings. I was delighted — I’ve never been...
Holiday wishes for the Canadian golf business
G4G Xmas wishes – my thoughts on appropriate gifts for the Canadian golf industry: Mike Weir: A year where he’s healthy, so we can see if it is his body or his head that’s caused his...
Course Preview: Cabot Links exceeds expectations
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...
National Post Golf Supplement: Cabot Links, David...
The National Post’s golf supplement came out yesterday — and it was written and edited by me, as it has been for the past several years. Never a big supplement, this...
Sympatico Column: Cabot Links — Canada's...
This week’s Sympatico column, on golf course visionary Mike Keiser and his involvement with Cabot Links in Cape Breton, is now online. Here’s the first few paragraphs to...
Course Preview: Cabot Links
Course Preview: Cabot Links (Inverness, NS) Designer: Rod Whitman Projected opening: Spring 2012 Few courses are as anticipated as Cabot Links. Being constructed between the town of...
Off to Nova Scotia
I’m heading to Nova Scotia this afternoon, with visits scheduled to the infamously named “The Lakes” (a new Graham Cooke design near Sydney), Bell Bay and Highlands...