Cabot Cape Breton: Top 100 Golf Resorts in the World
Quick Facts
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Number of rooms
72 rooms / 19 villas / 30 luxury homes -
Amenities
Restaurants / fishing / hiking / tennis / boating -
Number of courses
3 -
Course designers
Cabot Links (Rod Whitman); Cabot Cliffs (Coore & Crenshaw); The Nest (Rod Whitman and Dave Axland)
Resort Overview
The Cabot brand ranks among the fastest-growing names in golf-course development, with outposts spanning from Scotland to St. Lucia and beyond. But it all began here in Nova Scotia, on the rolling coastal land of a former fishing village. The original course, Cabot Links, is an understated layout of exceptional grace, with a front nine that skirts an ocean inlet in a setting as quaint as any in the game. The Links’ younger sibling, Cabot Cliffs, provides an eye-popping counterpart that lives up to its name with a routing that runs along majestic bluffs. Cabot was co-developed by Bandon Dunes founder Mike Keiser, and there are elements of Bandon here in the emphasis on throwback, elemental golf. But other aspects of the experience, from the cuisine and the coastline to the accents of the caddies, have a distinctly Nova Scotian lilt to them, lending Cabot a vivid sense of place.
Highlights
The Nest, a 10-hole par-3 course where you’re welcome to play as a twosome or tensome
The views from Panorama, the property’s fine-dining restaurant, with floor-to-ceiling windows facing the Atlantic
The 16th hole at Cabot Cliffs, a bluff-side par-3 that Tour pro Matt Kuchar said makes the famed 16th at Cypress Point “look small”
3 things to know
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Best time to go
May to October -
Best non-golf amenity
Heli-fishing -
Insider Tip
In the shoulder months of May and October, greens fees drop to $150, and the weather is often ideal for golf
