NY Times: Cabot Links And The Allure Of Remote Golf

Cabot Links, the Rod Whitman-designed brainchild of Ben Cowan-Dewar with a major assist from Mike Keiser, opened Friday and Bill Pennington features the new links, Nova Scotia and the ability of remote golf to attract golfers to strange places.

But why put it here, several hundred miles and a time zone from any large metropolitan city and a lonesome three-and-a-half-hour drive in a rental car from Nova Scotia’s lone major airport?

In golf, it seems, remote is the new luxury.

“If familiarity breeds contempt, then nonfamiliarity breeds mystique,” said Mike Hughes, the chief executive of the National Golf Course Owners Association. “And the more isolated you become, the more you buy into it. People going that far for golf focus on the golf exclusively and leave their cellphones and e-mails behind. They’re also usually playing spectacular golf courses.”

Pennington goes on to tell the backstory of the course's creation, and what it will mean to Inverness.  There is also an excellent slideshow with some images of the course, the town and historic shots of the early 20th century mining operation that once occupied the course site.