At 25, Ben Cowan-Dewar went to inspect a former coal-mining site in Nova Scotia. The course he imagined there became the starting point for Cabot, and an education in how long a good idea can take.
A 25-year-old found a failed mining town, got brushed off by golf's best developer and kept buying land. Cabot's resulting playbook - destination golf first, hospitality and homes second - now stretches from Cape Breton to Saint Lucia, Scotland, Florida, France and Norway.