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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia stands as Canada's ultimate maritime golf destination, featuring championship courses that rival Scotland's finest links. The province gained international recognition through Cabot Links, Canada's first true links course, which opened in 2012 near Inverness on Cape Breton Island. This Rod Whitman masterpiece overlooks the Gulf of St. Lawrence and has earned World Top 100 status alongside its sister course Cabot Cliffs.

  1. Cabot Cape Breton - Cliffs

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Cabot Cape Breton - Cliffs

    Situated half a mile away from Cabot Links, the Cliffs golf course occupies a more diverse landscape than its predecessor, sitting atop the bluffs that overlook the Gulf of St Lawrence...

  2. Cabot Links

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Cabot Links

    Cabot Links is located just outside the small town of Inverness on the rugged west coast of Cape Breton Island and these fairways, overlooking the Gulf of St Lawrence, comprise Canada’s first genuine links layout.

  3. Highlands Links

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Highlands Links

    Highlands Links golf course is set in one of Canada’s most gorgeous spots and this is where golf and Mother Nature join together in sweet harmony...

  4. Northumberland Links

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Northumberland Links

    Overlooking the Northumberland Strait, the course at Northumberland Links Golf Club was extended to a full 18-hole layout by the provincial government in the late 1980s.

  5. Digby Pines

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Digby Pines

    Overlooking the Annapolis Basin, the modern day 18-hole layout at Digby Pines Golf Resort & Spa started out as the New Pines Hotel Golf Course, designed by Stanley Thompson in the late 1920s for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

  6. Ashburn (Old)

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Ashburn (Old)

    Designed by Stanley Thompson, the 18 holes of Ashburn Golf Club’s Old course were fully operational by the end of 1925, three years after the club was formed.

  7. Fox Harb'r Resort

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Fox Harb'r Resort

    Fox Harb’r is one of the most exclusive golf resort destinations in North America. It may lack a couple of vowels in its name, but nothing else...

Other courses

  • Glen Arbour

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Glen Arbour

    The Annapolis property development company operates the Glen Arbour golf course on a site close to the city of Halifax that was once owned by the Jodrey family...

  • Bell Bay

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Bell Bay

    The scenic Thomas McBroom-designed course at Bell Bay Golf Club sits outside the lovely village of Baddeck in Cape Breton, offering golfers spectacular views across the shimmering Bras d'Or Lake...

  • Ashburn (New)

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Ashburn (New)

    The New course at Ashburn Golf Club is located 17 miles north of Stanley Thompson’s Old course and it’s here in 1970 that Geoff Cornish set out the fairways on a generous 600-acre rolling property next to Kinsac Lake.

  • The Lakes Golf Club - Cape Breton

    The course at the Lakes Golf Club overlooks the beautiful Bras d’Or Lakes in Cape Breton where Graham Cooke set out the fairways in two distinct loops of nine.

  • Truro - Canada

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Truro - Canada

    Golf has been played at Truro Golf Club for over a century. In 1930, Stanley Thompson upgraded the club’s original 9-hole course but it took until 1987 until the layout was extended to eighteen holes.

  • The Links at Brunello

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    The Links at Brunello

    The Links at Brunello was set out by Tom McBroom and opened for play in 2015, the layout is carpeted in bent grass from tee to green, with large, “bull nose” bunkers – a recent McBroom design trait ...

  • Antigonish

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Antigonish

    The town of Antigonish is proud of its Scottish roots – hosting an annual Highland Games since 1863 – so it should be no surprise to learn that Antigonish Golf and Country Club runs a kilted golf event as part of these Caledonian festivities.

  • Chester

    Nova Scotia, Canada

    Chester

    The seaside fairways at Chester Golf Club overlook Mahone Bay, which opens directly south into the Atlantic. The course isn’t long (measuring 6,078 yards from the back tees) but it can be an absolute beast when the wind gets up.