Cabot Links Update
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Many are keen on seeing what Keiser, a Chicago businessman who made his fortune in greeting cards, will come up with next. He's already built four courses on the Oregon coast -all of which have won numerous accolades -with a short course in construction and two more full-length facilities in planning. Along the way he's become the patron of links golf -unique seaside courses played on firm turf near the ocean -and has supported links in Australia and Scotland.
Keiser came to the project in 2007, just before the economic slowdown. Though the recession delayed the course's construction, it will be completed in time for the preview rounds in July. And Keiser, who has visited the course frequently throughout construction, is thrilled with what he sees.
"Two years ago I thought the course might be pretty good," Keiser said when I walked the course with him early last fall. "Last summer I was hoping it might be like [Royal] Dornoch or Turnberry, just in Inverness. But the holes they are turning out so well."
