Playing the Long Game at Fox Harb’r Resort
The Nova Scotia resort has teamed up with two of Canada’s leading golf course architects.
Fox Harb’r Resort, on Nova Scotia’s Northumberland Strait, is continuing its push to become one of Canada’s premier golf destinations. Visitors can now play a hybrid course consisting of nine holes each taken on the Ocean and Vineyard courses, with the full complement of 36 holes debuting next year.
When nine holes of the Ocean Course opened last year, it was heralded not just as a major addition to Nova Scotia’s golf scene but also as a first-of-its-kind partnership between two of Canada’s premier golf course architects, Doug Carrick and Tom McBroom.
This year, players will finally get a chance to sample golf from both of the distinct routings: the brash, water-facing, links-inspired Ocean Course, and the gentler, inland Vineyard layout that routes through the resort’s working vineyards. “Doug [Carrick] and I share a belief in natural, timeless golf architecture,” McBroom says. “The beauty of Fox Harb’r is in its variety, with the drama of the coast balanced by the calm of the inland holes. It’s a rare site that allows you to explore both within the same property.”
When they open fully in 2027, the two courses will join Nova Scotia’s three existing top-10 Canadian golf courses, and with such stiff competition, these two new layouts give visiting golfers all the more reason to stick around. As McBroom says, “Golf architecture is at its best when it evokes emotion, from the thrill of exposure to the calm of shelter and the beauty of contrast. At Fox Harb’r, players will feel all of that in one place. That’s what makes this project truly special.”
