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ch.articles = [ {article_id : 3721,head : 'Luxury for less the Gulf Coast way: High-end hotels, golf courses with mid-range rates',image_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/images/features/hard-rock-hotel-and-casino.jpg',teaser : 'With steals like Kiva Dunes and Shell Landing Golf Club, the Mississippi Gulf Coast and Alabama Gulf Shores are prime destinations for golfers looking to live large. These are the rare spots in today\'s high-thread-count-chasing world where you can get luxury for less.',author : 'Chris Baldwin',publish_date : '',type : 'Feature Story',article_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/feature-stories/mississippi/luxury-gulf-coast-golf-mississippi-alabama-kiva-dunes-shell-landing-vacation-6683.htm'},{article_id : 3700,head : 'Forget San Antonio\'s River Walk during Final Four weekend! Hit the golf course',image_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/images/travelfeatures/bandit-golf-club.jpg',teaser : 'During NCAA Final Four weekend in San Antonio, you\'ll have to find something to do in-between college basketball madness. Golf, anyone? With excellent courses like Westin La Cantera Golf Club and Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort & Spa, San Antonio has plenty of golf to keep you entertained during down time.',author : 'Chris Baldwin',publish_date : '',type : 'Travel Feature',article_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/departments/travelfeatures/texas/san-antonio-final-four-weekend-golf-courses-6642.htm'},{article_id : 3698,head : 'Kiva Dunes Golf Course is a seaside course you\'ll never forget in Gulf Shores, Alabama',image_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/images/golfcourses/kiva-dunes-gc-no18.jpg',teaser : 'Kiva Dunes Golf Course is the type of course you travel to play, the kind of showpiece that is a great impetus to come to the Alabama Gulf Shores and discover the other outstanding golf courses and 32 miles of beaches with white sand that looks like its special ordered from a postcard.',author : 'Chris Baldwin',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/coursereviews/alabama/kiva-dunes-golf-course-gulf-shores-alabama-6639.htm'},{article_id : 3602,head : 'Lost Key Golf Club near Pensacola is a saucy, salty, mischievous enchantress',image_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/images/golfcourses/lost-key-golf-club.jpg',teaser : 'The Lost Key Golf Club is one of those rare resort courses that likes to whip up on the guests, then entice them back for more. It\'s like a woman who tells you "no, no, no" with her mouth but "yes, yes, yes" with her eyes.',author : 'Tim McDonald',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/coursereviews/florida/lost-key-golf-club-perdido-6526.htm'},{article_id : 3448,head : 'Don\'t gamble on your golf: Do both on a three-day Biloxi golf weekend',image_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/images/features/fallen-oak-gc.jpg',teaser : 'If ever there was a town made for a long golf long weekend, it\'s Biloxi. Casinos, golf courses and long, white beaches. For golfers, it\'s a mini-paradise, with a number of excellent golf courses that are easily reached with minimal driving time. You may like to hit the links during the day and the casinos at night, to try to even the score with your golf buddies who are sucking you dry. Here\'s a great, three-day golf and gambling itinerary for a Biloxi golf vacation.',author : 'Tim McDonald',publish_date : '',type : 'Travel Feature',article_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/travel-feature/mississippi/biloxi-mississippi-golf-courses-3-day-weekend-itinerary-6319.htm'},{article_id : 3329,head : 'Mississippi\'s best golf resorts mix high stakes gambling with superb courses',image_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/images/features/fallen-oak-golf-course.jpg',teaser : 'Mississippi was the home of riverboat gamblers in the Old West, floating casinos in the modern era and, in post-Hurricane Katrina, land-based casinos. As the state has developed, so have its golf courses and golf resorts. It\'s one of the few states where you can mix golf and gambling, though all the resorts mentioned here don\'t have casinos. Here is our list of the best golf resorts in Mississippi.',author : 'Tim McDonald',publish_date : '',type : 'Feature Story',article_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/feature-stories/mississippi/mississippi-best-golf-resorts-pearl-river-old-waverly-beau-rivage-6153.htm'},{article_id : 3210,head : 'Gulf Coast offers great golf and world-class fishing too',image_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/images/clubhouse/fishing-at-the-chandeleurs.jpg',teaser : 'Southern Louisiana and Mississippi offer more than just great golf courses. Anglers know the fishing action here is world class too. Golfers can fly fish the flats of the Chandeleur Islands or rent a charter boat to go fishing in the waters near Biloxi.',author : 'Tim McDonald',publish_date : '',type : 'Feature Story',article_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/departments/clubhouse/golf-flats-fishing-gulf-coast-louisiana-biloxi-mississippi-6011.htm'},{article_id : 3114,head : 'Tamahka Trails Golf Club gives visitors a different taste of Louisiana golf',image_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/images/golfcourses/tamahka-trails-gc.jpg',teaser : 'One of the first things you will notice about the Tamahka Trails Golf Club at the Paragon Casino Resort are the hills, features that are seemingly out of place in central Louisiana. As part of the state\'s Audubon Golf Trail, this Marksville, La. golf course offers a different taste of the Pelican State, and that is a good thing.',author : 'Steve Habel',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/coursereviews/louisiana/tamahka-trails-golf-club-audubon-trail-marksville-louisiana-5898.htm'},{article_id : 3050,head : 'Creole, Thai, French, down-home and soul: Biloxi restaurants offer golfers diverse menus',image_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/images/features/mary-mahoneys-restaurant.jpg',teaser : 'Mississippi Gulf Coast has a string of good golf courses, big fancy casinos and, believe it or not, excellent restaurants. You don\'t have to go all the way to New Orleans for great eats. Here are a few suggestions to chew on as you consider your golf trip to the Biloxi area.',author : 'Tim McDonald',publish_date : '',type : 'Feature Story',article_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/feature-stories/mississippi/biloxi-restaurants-creole-thai-french-soul-menus-5789.htm'},{article_id : 3022,head : 'Koasati Pines at Coushatta: Away from the tables, you\'ll find fun, challenging golf',image_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/images/golfcourses/koasati-pines-gc-19th-hole.jpg',teaser : 'There\'s no mistaking the potential quality of your golfing experience at the Koasati Pines golf course at the Coushatta Casino Resort. If you\'re up for a challenge - aside from gambling - you\'ll find it here.',author : 'Steve Habel',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/coursereviews/louisiana/koasati-pines-coushatta-tables-golf-kinder-louisiana-5778.htm'},{article_id : 2970,head : 'Florida, Alabama offer Gulf Coast\'s top island golf courses',image_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/images/clubhouse/kiva-dunes-gc.jpg',teaser : 'Along with casinos and Cajun cooking, golf is one of the hallmarks of any trip to the Gulf Coast. From the Florida Panhandle to southeast Texas, there are plenty of island golf courses by the Gulf, with Kiva Dunes and Lost Key topping our list.',author : 'Tim McDonald',publish_date : '',type : 'Feature Story',article_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/departments/clubhouse/florida-alabama-top-gulf-coast-island-golf-courses-5721.htm'},{article_id : 2709,head : 'Shalimar Pointe Country Club an oldie but goodie in Destin-area golf',image_url : 'http://www.floridagolfguide.com/images/golfcourses/shalimar-pointe1.jpg',teaser : 'A world apart from the booming Destin golf scene and the condos of Fort Walton Beach, Shalimar Pointe Country Club is an old-school bargain in Florida Gulf Coast golf.',author : 'Tim McDonald',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.floridagolfguide.com/course-reviews/shalimar-pointe-country-club-destin-5423.htm'},{article_id : 2468,head : 'Sunkist Country Club owners get lemons, make lemonade in Gulfport, Miss.',image_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/images/golfcourses/sunkist-cc1.jpg',teaser : 'Sometimes natural disasters bring unnatural luck. Much of the Mississippi coast was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and the area\'s golf courses obviously suffered. But one of them, Sunkist Country Club, actually prospered.',author : 'Tim McDonald',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/coursereviews/mississippi/sunkist-country-club-gulfport-mississippi-5142.htm'},{article_id : 2811,head : 'Excellent toned-down Bay Point Marriott Resort golf course still has its thrills and chills',image_url : 'http://www.floridagolfguide.com/images/golfcourses/panama-city-beach-nicklaus10.jpg',teaser : 'Jack Nicklaus\' design team renovated the premier Bay Point Marriott Resort golf course in Panama City Beach, Fla., formerly knows as Lagoons Legend, two years ago. Tim McDonald visited the course recently for FloridaGolfGuide.com.',author : 'Tim McDonald',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.floridagolfguide.com/course-reviews/bay-point-marriott-resort-nicklaus-golf-course-panama-city-beach-5539.htm'},{article_id : 2640,head : 'Grand Bear golf course still one of Biloxi\'s star attractions for golfers',image_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/images/golfcourses/biloxi-grand-bear56.jpg',teaser : 'Grand Bear is one of Biloxi\'s star attractions. It may not have the novelty of the Mississippi Gulf Coast\'s two, glitzy new openings, Fallen Oak and The Preserve, or the history of Great Southern. But this will always be a favorite of those who travel and play golf regularly in Biloxi.',author : 'Tim McDonald',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.gulfcoastgolf.com/coursereviews/mississippi/grand-bear-golf-club-nicklaus-biloxi-mississippi-5339.htm'}]