Whale watching tour.
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Whale watching, Minister’s Island, meal at Rossmount.
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Puffin hunting?
As much as I’d like the idea as a lifelong Maritimer, I think the amount of driving that would be required to fill a full Tourist Sauce season would be a major hurdle given that there isn’t the same depth of courses here.
The Algonquin is the only course in NB that’s really worthy of showing but it would be so out of the way compared to the other courses you’d be playing in NS and PEI.
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As an NBer I was reaching to get an NB course in. I still think PEI/NS is a great season. Add Fox Harb’r and Northumberland.
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I really don’t think that’s the case. All the courses they’d play would be Cape Breton. Could take the ferry to PEI the next day and once you’re there, the island is so small, that everything is drivable. Then with an early enough start, you could be at The Algonquin for an early afternoon tee time.
Heck, it’s only 7 hours from Cabot to The Algonquin, the Maritimes are full of possibilities for a golf trip
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Fly into Bangor, drive to St. Andrews and play, drive across the bridge, 2-3 episodes on the Island, drive back across the bridge and find something around Halifax, drive to Cape Breton for 2-3 episodes.
I think it’s generally doable, but they’ve already done Cabot content so I can’t reasonably see them choosing this as the first Canadian trip.
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I hear ya. It’s a great course, especially with the recent back nine renovations.
You could get to a solid 10ish courses between NS and PEI without too much driving.
You can never, ever, have too much Cabot content.
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Have they priced out mere mortals? I want to like these famous best courses but really have a hard time swallowing the ask.
I’d love to play there but their $400 for one round puts lots more places ahead of it for me. It looks amazing, probably is amazing, I just know my golf enjoyment goes up as good courses fall closer to the hidden gem value spectrum that tourist sauce sometimes points out.
Call me thrifty.
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When does the e-town charter take off? I’m actively (in my mind) trying to make a golf trip happen this year, USA seems not possible or dumb to plan for so I’m looking at you Canada.
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Every time I’ve played a top-100 course it has been worth it. In Vancouver you’re paying close to $100 at most decent golf courses and courses like Whistler and Tobiano are close to $200.
Anything in the top 100 is definitely worth 3-400 once, especially since we are stuck with lots of mediocre golf up here.
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There’s just so much good stuff in that $100-200 range. Feels like the going rack rate for a round locally is $100 though with all the discounters out there now it’s not hard to get that to $60-80 per round.
For top courses in Canada it’s easy to keep it below $200. I have yet to play a golf digest top 100 world course, maybe I’m not living yet? The canadian big hitters I’ve played haven’t let me down but I’ve never gone price wise beyond predator’s ridge course which I think was $225? when I played it. Their replay rate would still leave enough money for a nice dinner at the course vs one round at cabot.
I won’t give up, I’ll try and play it but it’ll be at early or late season if I do. My mind can’t do the $400/rd cost. Based on the post count in the private club thread and the feeling of that chat, I’m bringing up the bottom end of the demographics curve here.
Thrifty.
You might enjoy a read through this thread: https://refuge.nolayingup.com/t/how-much-is-too-much/51277?u=t3j
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Happy new year, Canada and Canada-adjacent folk. 
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Cannot wait for this! Also need a media guy?
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Calendar cleared. Looking forward to this one.
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As a recent transplant to Buffalo, really hoping to #getinvolved with my fellow refugees Across the border and this sounds like an awesome event to play in!
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