With Cabot Wilds Coming, A Look At Cabot’s Footprint In Nova Scotia

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So, before Cabot plants its next property in Nova Scotia, what currently awaits in the province to the northeast of Maine?

​Cabot Cape Breton​ is by itself one of the great golf destinations on the continent. It comes with 47 holes of golf overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence, anchored by two courses that routinely rank among the best in the world.

Cabot Links sprouted up first, a bouncy, undulated test atop a former coal mine and along the rugged coastline of Inverness. Rod Whitman and team moved plenty of dirt to make it play like a real links course, and the scenery is next to none. “Ireland has no match for Cabot’s postcard par-4 sixth, a dogleg-left around a tidal yacht basin,” Golf Digest writes. Cabot Links is ranked 25th on the publication’s list of the ​world’s greatest​ (non-U.S.) courses, good enough for second in Canada.

First in Canada (and 14th in the world)? That would be the other routing at Cape Breton: Cabot Cliffs. In 2015, five years after Links opened, Cabot gave Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw a very dramatic slice of coastline and put them on the task of melting golfers’ faces. Mission accomplished. Built on fescue—like its counterpart—Cliffs welcomes the ground game, but does so with more variety—”with its southernmost holes in Lahinch-like sand dunes, its northernmost atop Pebble Beach-type ocean cliffs, and bits of pine-lined Scottish Highlands in between,” GD writes.

What could make this golf experience better? Perhaps an 11-hole short course that does not skimp on the views, either. ​The Nest​ is another Whitman-led design that brings the links action in a format that “can be played with a handful of clubs in a fraction of the time.”

Away from the course, enjoy the high-end accommodations and food that come with a Cabot stay, built on those same vistas that define the golf experience. And, of course, we’ll soon see a two-part Nova Scotia golf adventure come into focus, as Cabot adds ​Cabot Wilds​ to its rotation, an inland routing about three hours west of Cape Breton. Preview play there is expected in late 2027.

For now, Cape Breton remains the main event. And a very worthy one at that.

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