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The Ocean Course at Fox Harb’r Resort in Nova Scotia offers myriad views of the Northumberland Strait<\/p>\n
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In Canada, when you order a double double at Tim Hortons, you get two shots of cream and two packs of sugar poured into your coffee. The dough that built Fox Harb\u2019r<\/a>, a sprawling 1,100 acre oceanfront property that snuggles up against Nova Scotia\u2019s North Shore came from selling tens of millions of that exact order along with billions of timbits and apple fritters.<\/p>\n The resort was founded a quarter century ago by the late Ron Joyce, who parlayed part of the fortune he built as co-founder of Tim Hortons\u2014sold to Wendy\u2019s in 1995 for $425 million, nearly two decades before Burger King acquired<\/a> the Canadian quick-service giant for $11.53 billion\u2014into the creation of the property. Today, the resort is owned and operated by Joyce\u2019s son Steven, who is spearheading an expansion of its golf facilities and guest amenities.<\/p>\n The original routing was a tale of two courses in one, mixing parkland golf with a linksy Scottish-style layout. Braggadocious golfers who pull the \u2018what\u2019s the course record and where is the first tee\u2019 act will be thrilled to know the owner of the course record<\/a> is none other than Tiger Woods. The progenitor of the famous phrase shot a 63 here on a sunny spring day in 2009. That record will stand for perpetuity now that the course is midway through a $30 million renovation that will see two new wholly separate golf courses with their own singular vibes, the nearly complete Ocean Course and the inland Vineyard Course. Golf is still on offer during the renovation, with an evolving mix of finished holes that could swell to 27 by the middle of next season.<\/p>\n Double Trouble<\/p>\n The project brings together the singular talents of Doug Carrick and Tom McBroom, the great white north\u2019s two biggest living design names, working in tandem on both courses.<\/p>\n Corralling the Carrick X McBroom dream team was a happy accident that came about during an open request for bids on the project.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we did the RFP, Doug and Tom, among others, both submitted. We really liked their design ideas, we loved the fact that they\u2019re Canadian architects. That is certainly advantageous,\u201d Kevin Toth, president of Fox Harb\u2019r Resort explained. \u201cI am a big admirer of both their designs so Steven and I couldn\u2019t really decide between either of them. I went a bit on a lark and sent both of them a note saying \u2018would you guys consider working together\u2019. Doug got back to me saying \u2018give us 48 hours to talk about it,\u2019\u201d and the deal was done.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Tom and I are generating ideas we see things a little bit differently but in many ways that is good. We each our have our own ways of doing things and this gives it a different look when you have input from someone else,\u201d Carrick said.<\/p>\n