Alan Bastable
Jacob Sjoman
It’s hardly ever too early to plan a golf journey. However typically it’s too late.
Tee sheets replenish. Reserving home windows shut.
With that in thoughts, right here’s a heads up for anybody contemplating a golf getaway to Scotland. It includes Cabot Highlands, in Inverness. Already house to Citadel Stuart, a Gil Hanse-Mark Parsinen design that ranks 89th on GOLF’s roster of High 100 Programs within the World, Cabot Highlands is pushing ahead on a second 18-hole course, a Tom Doak known as Outdated Petty. Named for an historic native church, with a routing that meanders previous a tidal estuary, Outdated Petty just isn’t slated to open till 2026.
And but.
You don’t have to attend that lengthy.
On Friday, Cabot introduced that it’ll supply a sneak peek of Outdated Petty this coming summer season; preview play shall be welcome from Aug. 1 to Sept. 30. Reservations are actually accessible right here.
The announcement marks the newest information in what has been a busy yr for Cabot, the fast-growing golf improvement firm whose attain stretches from Canada to the Caribbean and past. In September, three months after buying Golf du Médoc Resort, in France, and remodeling it into Cabot Bordeaux to determine its first foothold in continental Europe, Cabot introduced a sturdy funding in Lofoten Hyperlinks, a coastal stunner in Norway, the place summer season rounds play out below the midnight solar.
Which remind us: for those who’re planning forward, the times are lengthy within the Scottish Highlands, too. On Aug. 1, the solar units at 9:31 p.m.
Alan Bastable
Golf.com Editor
As GOLF.com’s govt editor, Bastable is chargeable for the editorial course and voice of one of many sport’s most revered and extremely trafficked information and repair websites. He wears many hats — enhancing, writing, ideating, creating, daydreaming of sooner or later breaking 80 — and feels privileged to work with such an insanely proficient and hardworking group of writers, editors and producers. Earlier than grabbing the reins at GOLF.com, he was the options editor at GOLF Journal. A graduate of the College of Richmond and the Columbia College of Journalism, he lives in New Jersey along with his spouse and foursome of youngsters.