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Jason Lusk

Cabot Highlands offers nod to historic church and local cow with name and logo of new Tom Doak layout in Scotland

Cabot Highlands in Inverness, Scotland, has chosen a name for its new Tom Doak-designed course that is now scheduled to open for preview play in 2025: Old Petty.

The name is a nod to the Old Petty Church, which was built in 1839 and sits off what will become the 16th green. The now-unused church is believed to sit at the site of an even older church, and the Old Petty Church is reported to have hosted an unusual custom: Mourners in the early 1800s would run to the church’s graveyard during funerals while carrying the coffin.

The logo for the new Old Petty course will be the highland cow, or “Hairy Coo” as the locals call them.

Cabot revealed the logo, based on a highland cow, for Old Petty, the new course being built by Tom Doak in Scotland. (Courtesy of Cabot)

Cabot revealed Doak’s planned routing for Old Petty last summer, with holes passing a 400-year-old castle that provided the previous name for the property, Castle Stuart, before the Canadian-based Cabot bought it and rebranded the northern Scottish resort in 2022.

Old Petty will be on the southwest side of the property’s original Castle Stuart Golf Links built by Mark Parsinen and Gil Hanse, which ranks as the No. 4 modern course in Great Britain and Ireland. Built on land that was previously farmed, Old Petty will wrap down and around an estuary, offering stunning views and a layout that crisscrosses in a huge shared fairway for Nos. 1 and 18.

Cabot also plans to extend the unique white clubhouse to include a new whiskey and cigar bar, a clubhouse grill bar and a chophouse restaurant.

Check out several recent illustrations that provide a glimpse at how Old Petty might look.

Cabot has provided illustrations of how Old Petty at Cabot Highlands in Scotland will look. (Courtesy…
Cabot has provided illustrations of how Old Petty at Cabot Highlands in Scotland will look. The…
Cabot has provided illustrations of how Old Petty at Cabot Highlands in Scotland will look. (Courtesy…
Cabot has provided illustrations of how Old Petty at Cabot Highlands in Scotland will look. The…
Cabot has provided illustrations of how Old Petty at Cabot Highlands in Scotland will look. (Courtesy…
Cabot has provided illustrations of how Old Petty at Cabot Highlands in Scotland will look. (Courtesy…
Cabot has provided illustrations of how Old Petty at Cabot Highlands in Scotland will look. (Courtesy…
Cabot has provided illustrations of how Old Petty at Cabot Highlands in Scotland will look. (Courtesy…
Cabot has provided illustrations of how Old Petty at Cabot Highlands in Scotland will look. (Courtesy…
Cabot has provided illustrations of how Old Petty at Cabot Highlands in Scotland will look. (Courtesy…
Cabot has provided illustrations of how Old Petty at Cabot Highlands in Scotland will look. (Courtesy…
Cabot has provided illustrations of how Old Petty at Cabot Highlands in Scotland will look. (Courtesy…
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