Cabot Saint Lucia scores hole in one with course, homes
In the distance, some 150 nerve-wracking yards away, my target — a peninsula green guarded by a clutch of white-sand bunkers and the choppy sea — beckons. A warm, sea-salted wind whips off the water and I just can't decide which club to choose. To be honest, the jaw-dropping beauty of this hole, perhaps the best par-3 I've ever seen, has got my mind going in a million different directions. I reach for a six-iron, steady myself over the ball and make a hopeful swat. My ball disappears into a smear of swirling mist and then, a couple of seconds later, falls softly in the middle of the green. Needless to say, I'm tickled pink!
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'Tickled pink,' I'd say, will be the overwhelming feeling that every member and homeowner at the brand new Cabot Saint Lucia development will have the second they sign on the dotted line.
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Indeed, you can search far-away lands — including tropical destinations that tempt and tease with their perfect palm trees, soft-sand beaches and baby-blue seas — and you'll find many opportunities to purchase a plot of land and join a nice golf club. From the Caymans to the Canaries, Bermuda to the Bahamas, there are opportunities. But there is nothing that quite compares to Cabot Saint Lucia.
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Located on the northeast tip of the island country of Saint Lucia, deep in the Caribbean Sea, Cabot Saint Lucia is rightfully regarded as the crown jewel of Canada's revered Cabot Collection. And, in case you're not familiar with this fast-moving, Canadian-based golf and real estate developer, that's definitely saying something.
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Currently, the Cabot group owns seven golf-anchored resorts and residential developments around the world. Every one, including its first — Cabot Cape Breton on Nova Scotia's wave-battered shores — is a spectacular achievement that has golf connoisseurs from around the world ogling over the images.
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Designed by the talented duo of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, the Point Hardy Golf Club at Cabot Saint Lucia (the course opened last winter) boasts stunning ocean views from virtually every hole and nine greens right on the ocean's edge. The collection of seaside par-3s, especially, two of which require daring and dramatic carries over the roiling sea (the cliff-top 17th and, my favourite, the 16th) are quickly becoming legendary. Not surprisingly, given the quality of the architecture and the rarity of courses with this much seaside drama, Point Hardy has quickly become a legitimate contender in the 'world's best golf course' debate.
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'Cabot Saint Lucia is our only private members club within the Cabot Collection,' says Andrew Alkenbrack, chief operating officer at Cabot Saint Lucia. 'It's an exceptional location with a site for golf that will stand with the very best courses on the planet. With more potential than anything I have ever seen, Cabot Saint Lucia demanded to be treated differently.'
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