
When homeowners aren’t in residence, the cottages will be available as luxury accommodations for visiting guests. Real estate is still a key component at Cabot Highlands, with upscale, modern cottages inspired by the Scottish countryside. We want to become the organizers.” (photo by Erik Matuszewski) If you’re here and want to go out to dinner, we’ll take you and pick you up.

As a destination management, it will take the edge off the tour operators. And we’re taking care of all of your travel if you’re staying on site. It becomes a one-stop shop, especially with how close the airport is. Because you’re coming back, eating our food, sleeping in our beds, and drinking our wine. “You stay with us and, if you want to go for a tee time at Dornoch, we’ll take you and pick you up. You’re also going to play Nairn, Dornoch, Fortrose, Brora, and others potentially. “If you’re staying with us for the week, a five-night stay, you’re going to play the two courses at least once. “With the two courses here, where Ben’s headed is to take control of the visiting golfers in the Highlands,” Cabot Highlands General Manager Stuart McColm said after a recent round of golf and helping me experience nearby Loch Ness and one of the local whiskey distilleries. Cabot Highlands is just five minutes from the Inverness Airport, 20 minutes from Nairn, and within an hour or so of other famous courses in the Scottish Highlands like Brora, Royal Dornoch, Golspie, and the Carnegie Links at Skibo Castle. Andrews and the county of Fife (Kingsbarns, Carnoustie, Crail, Gleneagles, Dumbarnie, etc.), the West Coast (Royal Troon, Prestwick, Trump Turnberry, Western Gailes, Dundonald, etc.), and the Northeast Coast (Royal Aberdeen, Cruden Bay, Murcar, Trump International, etc.). With the Scotland expansion, the vision is to use Cabot as a jumping off point that better positions the Scottish Highlands as a golf destination on par with other popular regions like St. “If we come in and imprint ourselves on these places saying it’s going to be the exact same everywhere, it’s not going to work.” “The business model around each needs to really be reflective of the community,” says Cowan-Dewar. For its first European property, Cabot co-founder Ben Cowan-Dewar will harken back to his roots as a successful golf tour operator when Cabot Highlands in Inverness, Scotland, opens its second course (a Tom Doak design) in 2024 to complement the existing Castle Stuart course.

Real estate and home ownership is a key part of the model.īut that doesn’t mean Cabot isn’t willing to incorporate different approaches based on locale. In recent years, Cabot has added properties in the Caribbean, the U.S., and Scotland to its two locations in Canada. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.Cabot has tasted early success with a formula that’s made it one of the fastest growing brands in the golf world: great golf in great locations and a boutique resort and lifestyle community component. The major features of the district, which is centered on Highland Road east of US Route 6, are the Highland Light station, the Highland House (now a museum), and the Highland Links, one of the oldest golf courses on Cape Cod. The Truro Highlands Historic District encompasses an area of North Truro, Massachusetts, within the Cape Cod National Seashore, that has served as a recreational destination for more than 175 years.

When the Cape Cod National Seashore was conceived in the 1960’s, Highland Links became Federal property. However, the Scottish Government stepped. Initial plans for the Coul Links golf course near the village of Embo in Sutherland were approved by Highland Council in 2018. By 1955 the links had been refurbished again by owner Hal Conklin. THE group behind proposals to build a golf course on protected sand dunes in the Highlands say their plan would actually restore the area’s unique environmental features. First laid out by Isaac Small’s son Willard, a redesign was implemented in 1913 by New Yorker and frequent hotel guest J. The original “Highland House of Golf Links” was part of an ocean and cottage resort operated for years by the Small family of Truro, who promoted the course as “2000 yards around…in attractiveness not equaled in the New England coast.” Francis Ouimet, the legendary 1913 USGA Open Champion, played an exhibition round here after its original sand greens were converted to grass. What started out as a nine-hole course became 18 holes with the. More significant than its age is Highland’s heritage circumstances keep it a genuine links, as close to the Scottish tradition found anywhere in the eastern United States, with deep natural rough, Scotch broom, heath, and spectacular ocean views. The Highland Golf Course in Cosmopolis is the oldest golf course in Grays Harbor County. Founded circa 1892-1898, Highland has seen more than a hundred years of golf. One of Cape Cod’s oldest golf courses, and perhaps its most scenic, Highland Links in North Truro is one of America’s golf treasures, perched high along windswept bluffs overlooking the Atlantic next to the vintage Highland Light.
