Final seeding on Cabot Cliffs; course to open in July

INVERNESS As the golf world salivates over the promise of a round or two on Cape Breton's latest signature course, its operators proudly report the last round of seeding has been completed.

The Par 3 No. 16 hole at Cabot Cliffs is shown. All 18 holes of the Inverness course have been seeded and will be available for golf in July. Photo submitted by Cabot Cliffs

Hole No. 7, which features a pond and an elevated fairway according to Golf Advisor, carries the distinction of being the final Cabot Cliffs hole to be seeded.

The focus now shifts to things like finalizing bunker edges throughout the fall as preparations continue to move toward a summer 2015 opening.

"What we will do is go from construction to growing in which we literally call grown-in when the grass comes in through the fall," said Ben Cowan-Dewar, managing partner for Cabot Links.

"It is sort of a slow transition and will be almost entirely transitioned in the next week or so to grow in and basically the other holes are being mowed and maintained."

Cowan-Dewar said an aggressive construction schedule, an exceptional construction crew and co-operation from Mother Nature allowed the course to get to this point.

And because construction is going well, he said all 18 holes of the new course will open for preview play in July.

"The idea of preview play is that the greens will probably be a little slower, we'll limit the number of rounds basically just to let that young turf grow in and then we'll have a grand opening in 2016."

Even though the number of rounds per day will be limited, he said people can still book to play the course from July through October.

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