Next great Caribbean course? The team behind Bandon Dunes and Cabot Links launches project in Saint Lucia

That resort, built by Canadian businessman Ben Cowan-Dewar and Bandon Dunes founder Mike Keiser, put the sleepy fishing village of Cape Breton on the golf map with two courses — Cabot Links and Cabot Cliffs — that rank 96th and 50th, respectively, on Golf Magazine’s list of Top 100 Courses in the World.

Reached by phone in Saint Lucia this week, Cowan-Dewar said that he and Keiser had long been searching for the “perfect opportunity” to expand the Cabot footprint overseas.

They found it, he said, after scouring the Caribbean for several years, inspecting myriad sites, many of them golf developments that had foundered in the wake of the 2008 financial crash.

The land they chose sits on Point Hardy, a 370-acre peninsula at the northern tip of Saint Lucia, where a lush, tropical landscape rushes up against the sea. [See more photos of the property below.]

The layout routed by Coore and Crenshaw aims to take advantage of this backdrop, providing ample ocean views and coastal close-ups, with greens set on clifftop promontories and seven holes cut hard along the water.