Cabot announced that it is expanding further into the management space. Four courses under its purview will now be known as Cabot-managed properties.
Cabot has managed the operations for four U.S. golf courses since 2022 through CDN Golf Management, one of Cabot’s affiliates. These courses are now officially under Cabot’s umbrella as a discrete portfolio: Cascata Golf Club and Rio Secco Golf Club in Las Vegas, Nevada; Grand Bear Golf Club in Saucier, Mississippi; and Chariot Run Golf Club in Laconia, Indiana.
Ben Cowan-Dewar, CEO of Cabot, said that they’ve enjoyed the experience of managing those courses so much they wanted to bring all of them together under the Cabot name.
“As the Cabot brand and team grew—we have so many wonderful people and we’re all on the same team—it was really pulling that together and really seeing that all come under one roof and all under one team,” he said. “While not branded Cabot necessarily, [these courses] feel like very much a part of the Cabot family. It was a recognition of that and pulling it all in under one brand.”
Cascata Golf Club sits 3,200 feet above the Las Vegas desert valley and recently unveiled a renovation of its golf shop. Rio Secco Golf Club is located in the Black Mountains of Nevada and features a par-72 Rees Jones-designed golf course with views of the Las Vegas Strip. Grand Bear Golf Club was designed by Jack Nicklaus and sits six miles into the De Soto National Forest, ensconced in the natural landscape. Chariot Run Golf Club is an equestrian-themed golf course with bentgrass fairways and greens, lakes, and scenic trees.
Cabot is well-known for its people-focused culture and will bring those same principles to these new courses.
“It continues to be an evolution; how can we make them the best properties we can?” Cowan-Dewar said. “That is really what our focus has been. Anything we can do to add to that is what we’re focused on every day. In some ways that can be little things and in some it’s probably greater reimaginations. Each asset’s a little bit different and that’s how we look at them and think about them.”
Cowan-Dewar said there are currently no plans to add more courses to the management portfolio, but Cabot is constantly looking at new opportunities and will continue to grow both sides of the business.
