Posts in Tag: nova scotia golf
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Owls Head – Not the Place for a Golf Resort
A couple of posts ago I weighed in on what I described as the Peggy’s Cove Kerfuffle and after visiting the site, examining the plans and determining that there had been more than adequate consultation, concluded that those who opposed the changes were flat out wrong. In this post I am going to do the same […]
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Highlands Links – Stanley Thompson’s Masterwork
Stanley Thompson is, without question, Canada’s most well known, most prolific and most respected golf architect. The creator of over 150 golf courses, most in Canada, he was a cofounder of the American Society of Golf Architects and even has his own society of dedicated followers intent on preserving his legacy. Beginning in 1924 with Jasper […]
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Cabot Links – Canada’s First True Links Course
The story of Cabot Links resort and its two now world famous courses is amazing and one I first told in this post on the Cabot Cliffs course so I won’t repeat it here. Suffice it to say that Cabot Cliffs is #1 in Canada and #11 in the world while its older brother, Cabot […]
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Fox Harbr – A Great Nova Scotian Golf Course
This is a post on Tim Horton’s co founder Ron Joyce’s golf resort on the Northumberland Strait in Nova Scotia, not far from the town of Tatamagouche where Joyce grew up. Firstly, I do know the correct spelling is Fox Harb’r, but SEO won’t permit any punctuation in the key word so I’ll stick with […]