Golfers can get a sneak peek of Old Petty during a two-month window next summer.
Jacob Sjoman
It’s never too early to plan a golf trip. But sometimes it’s too late.
The tee sheets fill up. Booking windows close.
With that in mind, here’s a heads up for anyone considering a golfing getaway in Scotland. It includes Cabot Highlandsin Inverness. Now home to Castle Stuart, a Gil Hanse-Mark Parsinen design ranked 89th on GOLF’s list Top 100 courses in the worldCabot Highlands is pushing forward on an 18-hole second course, a Tom Doak named Old Petty. Named for a historic local church, with a road winding across the tidal estuary, Old man Petty not scheduled to open until 2026.
And yet.
You don’t have to wait that long.
On Friday, Cabot announced that it will offer a sneak peek of Old Petty this coming summer; Preview play will be welcome from August 1st to September 30th. Reservations are now available here.
The announcement marks the latest news in what has been a busy year for Cabot, the fast-growing golf development company whose reach stretches from Canada to the Caribbean and beyond. In September, three months after it bought the Golf du Médoc Resort, in France, and transformed it into Cabot Bordeaux to establish its first outlet in continental Europe, Cabot announced a major investment in Lofoten Links, a coastal stunner in Norway, where summer rounds. under the midnight sun.
Which reminds us: if you’re planning ahead, the days are long even in the Scottish Highlands. On August 1, the sun sets at 9:31 p.m
