The union that represents the workers at Highlands Links wants the government to make potential operators who will offer jobs to the maintenance crew, according to the Chronicle-Herald:...
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Cabot Links debuts in world Top 100
Golf Magazine unveiled it list of newcomers to its world Top 100 golf course list yesterday. Along with Donald Trump’s...
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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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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...
Read MoreCabot Links: A retrospective on opening
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...
Controversy at Cabot Links: Environmentalists complain...
With Cabot Links finally near opening, the same group that have complained about the project from the start have managed to gain some more media attention — CBC at least — once...
PEI courses back up for sale — government...
Interesting story out of Prince Edward Island, where the provincial government is still trying to get out of the golf business (source): The provincial government is once again trying to...
Richard Zokol splits with Sagebrush
I remember the first time I asked Richard Zokol about the golf course he was planning on building. It was 2003, his last year in which he played with any regularity on the PGA Tour. He was...
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...
Cabot Links Hole By Hole — Holes 7 through 12
The cape hole — the par four 9th — at Cabot Links. The second part of my look at Cabot Links, the new course by Rod Whitman in Inverness, NS. Day one (holes 1 through 6) can be...
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...
Cabot Links: Top 100 hype?
On Monday afternoon I jump on a jet and fly to Sydney, NS, for the second time this year. The trip is only three days long and takes in only two courses — Highlands Links, and Cabot...