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ch.articles = [ {article_id : 3309,head : 'How sweet it is: Hershey\'s chocolate land gives family golfers time to play',image_url : 'http://www.worldgolf.com/images/features/hershey-mansion-green.jpg',teaser : 'Hershey, Pennsylvania has been home to the famous Hershey\'s chocolates for over a century. It also draws raves as a golf destination though, routinely getting rated one of the best family golf vacation spots by leading golf magazines.',author : 'Chris Baldwin',publish_date : '',type : 'Feature Story',article_url : 'http://www.worldgolf.com/features/hershey-chocolate-family-golf-vacation-6131.htm'},{article_id : 3151,head : 'Forget your Philadelphia stereotypes: City boasts great golf, hot restaurants, nightclubs',image_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/images/clubhouse/bulle-rock-golf-course.jpg',teaser : 'Philadelphia carries a reputation of being a fat, cheese steak guzzling East Coast City. Only now it has tons of hot restaurants and nightclubs. It\'s a great scene for discovering underrated golf, and Baltimore golf courses like Pete Dye\'s Bulle Rock are only a quick drive away.',author : 'Chris Baldwin',publish_date : '',type : 'Feature Story',article_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/departments/clubhouse/philadelphia-pennsylvania-golf-courses-nightlife-restaurants-nightclubs-5941.htm'},{article_id : 3069,head : 'Rees Jones\' Broad Run Golfer\'s Club a real Philadelphia high',image_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/images/coursereviews/broad-run-gc-par3.jpg',teaser : 'Returned to tip-top conditioning by new ownership and management, Broad Run Golfer\'s Club offers serene rural scenes and a convention-busting Rees Jones design only 45 minutes from Philadelphia\'s Center City.',author : 'Chris Baldwin',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/departments/coursereviews/pennsylvania/broad-run-golfers-club-philadelphia-west-chester-pennsylvania-5836.htm'},{article_id : 3020,head : 'Philadelphia\'s historic eyesore: Cobb\'s Creek Golf Club\'s magic blunted by bad conditions',image_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/images/coursereviews/cobbs-creek-third-green.jpg',teaser : 'Philadelphia golf marketers treat Cobb\'s Creek Golf Club\'s Olde Course as the city\'s showcase muni, and it should be. But the landmark track and its ingenious old-school layout by Merion designer Hugh Wilson are let down by poor course conditions.',author : 'Chris Baldwin',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/departments/coursereviews/pennsylvania/cobbs-creek-golf-club-olde-course-philadelphia-bad-conditions-5771.htm'},{article_id : 2963,head : 'Bedford Springs Resort reopens after comprehensive "retro-rebuild"',image_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/images/news/bedford-springs-resort.jpg',teaser : 'More than a century after its original opening, the Bedford Springs Golf Club has reopened after a historic and comprehensive "retro-rebuild" by Forse Design, Inc. The club has long been a staple of golf in Pennsylvania and had gone more than 80 years without a major renovation, William K. Wolfrum writes.',author : 'William K. Wolfrum',publish_date : '',type : 'News',article_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/news/beford-springs-resort-golf-course-reopens-5705.htm'},{article_id : 2396,head : 'Mario Lemieux: Golf harder than winning NHL\'s Stanley Cup',image_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/images/clubhouse/mario-lemieux.jpg',teaser : 'Somebody neglected to teach Mario Lemieux the celebrity code. Arguably the second greatest hockey player of all time and still Lemieux waits in the line for the gourmet buffet like the rest of the regular well-healed folks at celebrity golf tournaments.',author : 'Chris Baldwin',publish_date : '',type : 'Personality Profile',article_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/departments/clubhouse/profiles/mario-lemieux-golf-nhl-stanley-cup-5020.htm'},{article_id : 2340,head : 'Lebanon\'s Royal Oaks Golf Club falls short in \'country club\' promise, reader says',image_url : 'http://www.travelgolf.com/images/reader-letter-golf.jpg',teaser : 'Reader Steve Wilson writes in to say he\'s tried Royal Oaks G.C. in Lebanon, Pa. several times but has been disappointed with the conditioning. For a course that touts itself as a "country club" experience, Wilson says, Royal Oaks comes up short.',author : 'GolfPublisher Staff',publish_date : '',type : 'Reader Letters',article_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/readers-review/royal-oaks-golf-club-falls-short-4978.htm'},{article_id : 1669,head : 'In Pa. golf bargain haven, Cranberry Highlands delivers',image_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/images/courses/cranberry-highlands-golf.jpg',teaser : 'Cranberry Highlands Golf Course is the most polished course in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Opened in 2002, it\'s humming along with a serious efficiency. This is anything but the typical lackadaisical muni vibe.',author : 'Chris Baldwin',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/course-reviews/cranberry-highlands-golf-course-butler-1414.htm'},{article_id : 1697,head : ' Kids get their own box (and we\'re not talkin\' sand)',image_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/images/courses/kelly-blake-moran.jpg',teaser : 'Kelly Blake Moran is building a golf course for kids. Well, it\'s not just for kids; grown-ups can play too. The Reading-based course architect has designed a municipal layout in suburban Philadelphia that features the standard set of adult tees, but will also include a set of tees for youngsters. The Lederach Golf Club, due to open in the summer of \'05, will become the first course in Eastern Pennsylvania to feature "kids tees."  ',author : 'Darryl Berger',publish_date : '',type : 'Feature Story',article_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/features/kelly-blake-moran-537.htm'},{article_id : 1660,head : 'Hartmann\'s Deep Valley brings a woman\'s touch to western PA golf',image_url : 'http://pennsylvaniagolf.com/images/courses/hartmann-golf9.jpg',teaser : 'Butler County, Pa., may very well be one of the last great undiscovered cheap golf locations in the United States, and courses like Hartmann\'s Deep Valley are the reason why. At Hartmann, a family owned golf club, you can usually be playing for $30 or less. And while the front nine may be a little tight, the back nine opens up at this course that\'s run by   mostly women, yet is friendly to all golfers.  ',author : 'Chris Baldwin',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/course-reviews/hartmans-deep-valley-golf-course-butler-1396.htm'},{article_id : 1619,head : 'MyGolfBuddy makes finding a new playing partner a snap',image_url : 'http://worldgolf.com/images/features/my-golf-buddy.jpg',teaser : 'MyGolfBuddy has more than 3,000 members in America and is growing at the rate of 20 per day, according to its founder, Paul Robinson.',author : 'Alan Katz',publish_date : '',type : 'Feature Story',article_url : 'http://www.worldgolf.com/features/mygolfbuddy-golf-pairing-service-2031.htm'},{article_id : 1611,head : 'A bargain with bite: Dubbs Dred golf course delivers a low-cost gauntlet by Pittsburgh',image_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/images/courses/dubbs-dred-golf1.jpg',teaser : 'In Butler County in Western Pennsylvania, affordable golf is the name of the game. But few courses combine low green fees with challenging play the way Aubrey\'s Dubbs Dred does. But while the back nine has locals fearing losing too many golf balls, many enjoy the craziness of it, as well as the conditioning. Of course, the surreal $15 green fees keeps   golfers coming back to John Aubrey\'s 121-slope rating creation, also.  ',author : 'Chris Baldwin',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/course-reviews/aubreys-dubbs-dred-golf-course-butler-1395.htm'},{article_id : 1543,head : 'Downingtown CC near Philly has had its ups and downs',image_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/images/courses/downingtown-golf12.jpg',teaser : 'You won\'t hear George Fazio bragging about his design work at Downington Country Club near Philadelphia. That\'s not because the member of the famous Fazio family isn\'t proud of his work, it\'s because the original Downington owners didn\'t pay him. Payment issues aside, new owners have given Downington a rebirth, rescuing the quirky course from bad   conditioning and rebuilding the bunkers and help make it into one of the area\'s more interesting plays.      ',author : 'Kiel T. Christianson',publish_date : '',type : 'Feature Story',article_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/features/downingtown-golf-578.htm'},{article_id : 1444,head : 'An 18-point golfer\'s guide: Philadelphia Off Course',image_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/images/features/BenFranklin.jpg',teaser : 'When it comes to trendiness on the East Coast, it\'s time to stop looking at Manhattan and start looking at the city where it all began, Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love isn\'t just home to Revolution-era historical sites, it\'s also an area where great golf is always right around the corner. It\'s also a place where you can get the best cheesesteak in the world (at Pat\'s, of course), and so much more.  ',author : 'Chris Baldwin',publish_date : '',type : 'Quick Guide',article_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/features/philadelphia-off-course-city-guide-1470.htm'},{article_id : 1361,head : 'Buffalo Golf Course: Have shirt and $18 will play well in Western PA',image_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/images/courses/buffalo-golf-course2.jpg',teaser : 'Buffalo Golf Course may be about as unpretentious a golf experience as you\'ll ever find, with the only requirements being to wear a shirt and pony up the paltry $18 green fees. Nonetheless, Buffalo proves low-brow does not equal low class. Buffalo is establishment enough to have secured a solid rating from Golf Digest, but player friendly enough to remember its roots and the value of the local customers who\'ve kept it going since 1967.',author : 'Chris Baldwin',publish_date : '',type : 'Course Review',article_url : 'http://www.pennsylvaniagolf.com/course-reviews/buffalo-golf-course-butler-1361.htm'}]