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Cabot purchases World Woods, plans to reimagine 36-hole Florida facility

One of Florida’s most notable 36-hole facilities is getting a new owner – and soon a makeover.

When World Woods Golf Club opened in 1993 in Brooksville, Florida, about an hour north of Tampa, its two layouts, Pine Barrens and Rolling Oaks, were highly acclaimed by critics. Phil Mickelson and David Toms even faced off in a Shell's Wonderful World of Golf event on Pine Barrens. But despite both Tom Fazio designs maintaining spots on many publications’ best-of lists some nearly three decades later, the conditioning of the property has been in steady decline.

Now, enter Cabot, which owns and operates Canada’s top two courses, Cabot Links and Cabot Cliffs in Nova Scotia.