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Cabot Highlands unveils name for its new course-in-the-making
The Tom Doak design, which opens for preview play next year, will be called Old Petty, a nod to an historic local landmark.
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The Tom Doak design, which opens for preview play next year, will be called Old Petty, a nod to an historic local landmark.
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“Old” and “petty.”
In isolation, the words might sound unflattering.
Strung together, though, and attached to a Tom Doak-designed golf course in Scotland, they take on a very different ring.
The course in question is a project-in-the-making that will add to the offerings at Cabot Highlands, in Inverness, Scotland, one of the jewels in the growing Cabot crown — Cabot being the headline-making Canada-based golf development company whose international portfolio now includes properties (or properties in progress) in Nova Scotia, Saint Lucia, British Columbia and Central Florida.
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Until recently, Doak’s design at Cabot Highlands, which will be a sister course to Castle Stuart, the celebrated four-time Scottish Open venue, had not been named. But that changed early this month, when Cabot came forth with the news: the course will be called Old Petty, a nod to an historic local landmark, the Old Petty Church, which was built in 1839 and borders the Cabot property.
Along with the name, Cabot also unveiled a logo for the course. It, too, is locally inspired: a tribute to the highland cow, a regional breed that locals affectionally refer to as the “hairy coo.”
![Old Petty's logo is a tribute to a Scottish cow](https://golf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Old-petty-jpeg-1.jpg)
Old Petty, which will wind along a tidal estuary, bringing golfers close to another local landmark (400-year-old Castle Stuart), is scheduled to open for preview play in 2025. At that time, the club also plans to unveil an expanded 11,000-square-foot clubhouse with a whisky and cigar bar, a clubhouse grill and a chophouse.
All of the above is meant to bolster the allure of a highlands destination that currently welcomes play on Castle Stuart, a Gil Hanse-Jim Wagner design that ranks 89th on GOLF Magazine’s list of Top 100 Courses in the World.
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