A few weeks back it was announced that the federal government, which operates Highlands Links in Cape Breton, NS, was seeking an interested party to lease the Top 100 in the world course...
Tag - Cape Breton
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...
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Course Review: Cabot Cliffs (Inverness, NS)
Review: Cabot Cliffs (Inverness, NS) Designer: Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw Overview: Cabot Cliffs is the most exciting and...
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Highlands Links and GolfNorth: Arising from the ashes?
I spent the day playing one of the best golf courses in the world, Highlands Links in Ingonish, NS, alongside its intrepid GM...
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Cabot Links: Hole by hole
I recognized recently that the first time I wrote about Cabot Links, the new course in Inverness, NS, was almost seven years ago. I’ve been fascinated by the project and was very...
In Photos: Highlands Links Day 1
Greetings from a cool and somewhat foggy Ingonish Beach Nova Scotia, site of Cape Breton’s Highlands Links Golf Course. Thought I’d share a couple of quick pics from our day...
Fairway Stevie’s World Of Golf: Cape Breton Golf
Don’t have the time or budget to fly all the way to Scotland to golf? Well, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia is within a couple of hours flight for anyone in Eastern North America and the...
2009 In Review: Best Golf Courses
With golf showing for the holidays (and me tiring of writing about Tiger), I thought I’d take the time to reflect on some of my experiences in 2009. As anyone who reads this blog...
Jack Poole in Going for the Green
The second year I wrote my Going for the Green column for the National Post I had the good fortune of playing a round of golf with Jack Poole, the force behind BC’s 2010 Winter Games...
Cabot Links Continues to Grow
I’ve written extensively about Cabot Links, the course being designed by Rod Whitman in Inverness, NS on Cape Breton Island. Construction started this past summer and here’s...
Course Review: Sagebrush Golf and Sporting Club...
Course Review: Sagebrush Golf and Sporting Club Designers: Rod Whitman, Richard Zokol, Armen Suny Few courses in Canada have been so widely anticipated “ and viewed as such precarious...
Return From Highlands Links — Now with fewer...
I’ll do a longer, more thorough discussion of what is going on at Cape Breton’s Highlands Links, which I’m now convinced is the best course in Canada, at a later date. But...