BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA | The PGA Show is a time for companies in the golf business to gather in Orlando, in part to introduce new goods and services to a global audience that includes members of the news media as well as thousands of people who make their living in the game.
So it made perfect sense for golf impresario Ben Cowan-Dewar to share news on the status of one of his latest projects. Dubbed Cabot Citrus Farms and located on the site of the former World Woods golf resort in this Florida city of some 9,000 residents 45 miles north of Tampa, it will feature a pair of reimagined 18-hole courses. One of those, Cabot Barrens, is the creation of architect Kyle Franz, and the other, Cabot Oaks, a collaboration between Franz, fellow designer Mike Nuzzo and Ran Morrissett, founder of the Golf Club Atlas website that acts in many ways as a chat room for architect aficionados and head of the highly respected course rating operations at Golf Magazine.
In addition, the complex will boast a pair of short tracks laid out by Nuzzo. There is a l...