Cabot Links, Iverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
Turn loose Bandon Dunes' Mike Keiser on any coastal property and the result is likely to be successful. Designer Rod Whitman, an Albertan who prepped under Pete Dye and Bill Coore, built Canada's first authentic links for Keiser and codeveloper Ben Cowan-Dewar on a rolling plot that starts at an elevated bluff and descends to the beach. Every hole offers views of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but the most dazzling postcard is the tiny par-3 14th, a downhill pitch of 102 yards that overlooks the sea and is a dead ringer for the 7th a Pebble Beach. Ten holes opened in July 2011, with the others to follow in the spring of 2012.