The sea-swept 16th
hole at Cabot Cliffs
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Cabot trail,
Nova SCotia
Cabot Cliffs
Cabot Links
Bell Bay Golf Club
Cape Breton
Highlands
SYDNEY
The Lakes Golf Club
at Ben Eoin
As you approach the seaside
16th hole at Cabot Cliffs, the
first thing you’ll notice is the
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has experienced golf on Cape
flickering flag, placed per-
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Breton would agree.
ilously close to the edge of
recommended
To complete your Cape
a six-storey cliff above the
hotels across
Canada. Book
Breton crusade, tack on Bell
swirling sea. It’s quite possi-
at Cape Breton’s
Bay Golf Club in Baddeck (a
bly the most scenic golf hole
historic Inverary
Resort, erected
Thomas McBroom design
in the world: A soaring giant
in 1850.
that often flies under the
set along the wave-battered
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radar) and The Lakes Golf
shores of Cape Breton.
Club at Ben Eoin, near Sydney.
Nova Scotia’s revered Cabot
For your side games,
Trail, a 298-kilometre high-
explore pretty fishing villages along
way that rims Cape Breton, isn’t an
the trail, stuff yourself with local
official golf trail. But it certainly feels
seafood, and visit historic gems like
like one to me, with the heavenly two-
the Fortress of Loisbourg and the
course feast of Cabot Links and the
Alexander Graham Bell National His-
Cape Breton Highlands, a Stanley
toric Site in Baddeck. And, of course,
Thompson-designed treasure that
enjoy one of the most scenic drives in
has been lauded for decades. And the
the world on the Cabot Trail itself. »
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