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The Good Golf Course1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Itinerary | Home Breaking some of golf’s dirty habits, a new development in Nova Scotia is reviving the game’s greener past – and the hopes of a town.
If you stand on the wide, sandy expanse below the seaside town of Inverness, Nova Scotia, you might just be able to see all the way to PEI. The view is classic Cape Breton Island, with a group of fishing boats huddled in an inlet to the south. It’s a desolate, grassy stretch of land, resting on the site of long-shuttered mines that have now been capped. There’s very little reason to wander out here in March unless you’re, say, walking a dog along the boardwalk below. There’s also very little reason to come to this tiny former coal-mining town of less than 2,000. So you might ask what Mike Keiser, a recycled-greeting-card baron, is doing pacing through the sand with a handful of advisers huddled in winter coats. The answer: he’s walking along a golf course that doesn’t yet exist, picturing how the holes might hug the curvature of that natural harbour in the distance. |
