sunset over the links and Inverness beach
▦ hero—sunset over the links and Inverness beach
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Cabot Links

Rod Whitman · par 70
Designers
Rod Whitman
Par
70
Yardage
6,860
Style
Links · walking only
Green fee
from $289
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Rod Whitman spent years shaping the old Inverness mine site into Canada's first genuine links, and the result plays like it's been there a century—running turf, revetted bunkers, and a routing that keeps the harbour and the Gulf of St. Lawrence in your eyeline nearly the whole way round.

The stretch that stays with you runs along the water: the drivable 16th on the beach grass and the par-3 14th to a green silhouetted against the sea. It's an honest wind course—flat enough to walk easily, exposed enough that the same hole never plays the same twice.

Signature stretch
The 14th green above Inverness harbour with fishing boats behindHole 14 · The Harbour Par 3
The postcard above the fishing boats

A hundred yards, give or take the wind—the 14th drops to a green set hard against Inverness harbour, with the fishing fleet bobbing behind the flag. It is the most photographed hole in Canadian golf, and the rare short par 3 you will remember shot for shot.

a green above the fishing harbour
rippled bunkers against the whitecaps
pink sunset over the links
Scorecard
Hole
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
OUT
Yards
540
247
330
450
178
465
192
580
360
3,342
Par
5
3
4
4
3
4
3
5
4
35
Hole
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
IN
Yards
385
620
450
440
108
413
457
170
475
3,518
Par
4
5
4
4
3
4
4
3
4
35
Caddie notes
01Play the ground game—approaches that land short and release beat anything flown at the flag, especially downwind.
02The drivable par-4 16th is the round's great temptation; the safe punch short-left leaves an easy pitch when the wind says no.
03Club for the wind, not the yardage—two extra clubs into it is normal here, not conservative.
04Take a caddie for your first loop; the blind lines and running slopes reward local knowledge.
Dining on-property
Panorama Restaurant
$65 pp
Coastal fine dining · dinner
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Whit's Public House
$40 pp
Pub · dinner
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Coore's Lobster Shack
$35 pp
Seafood shack · lunch
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Cabot Bar
$30 pp
Bar & lounge · dinner
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