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We would like to thank all our players for their support to the 90 degree cart rule as the hot windy weather continues this past week. The priority remains the same to protect our Greens and Tee’s first followed by our fairways and outer roughs. Every bit helps so please do your part and follow the guidelines below from Martin McGavock our Course Superintendent. Some exciting events to play in this July including the Open Medal and for those AIGS members, the annual summer trophy will take place this Sunday 15th. 
 
For those members travelling we hope you are enjoying your summer break and wish you a safe return to Baku! We will see you soon.
Course Update – Martin McGavock Course Superintendent
“We are in a period of extreme heat stress at the moment with temperatures that have matched and overtaken Dubai this past weekend. The course has a lot of dry areas as our grass varieties experience heat stress up wards of 32 degrees Celcius. Grass under this stress goes into a defence mode and is easily damaged easily by weight golf carts and hot tyres. We ask that all golfers until further update kindly adhere to the 90 degree rule by keeping on cart paths and driving off at 90 degrees to you ball location to play a shot and directly returning to cart path at 90 degrees”. See below instruction.
In the current weather along with meeting golfer expectations on course, grass survival is high priority, where we work from ‘pin out’ starting with the greens as the most important surface on the course – which are performing very well during this period!
 
“I ask that you kindly assist us by avoiding driving in brown dry looking areas where possible, observe the 90 degree rule and PLEASE REPAIR YOUR PITCHMARKS as we have been experiencing a high volume of unrepaired Pitchmarks for the amount of rounds played on the course. Nobody wants to miss a putt because someone’s unrepaired Pitchmark has diverted their ball”
Azerbaijan International Golf Society (AIGS) – Annual Trophy 
The AIGS Golf Society will play their Annual Trophy and BBQ on Sunday 15th of July. All AIGS members are asked to confirm their availability with Martin Doherty AIGS Committee martin.docherty@socarcape.az . Given the Sunday is the World Cup Final the plan is to start mid morning with the below timings
10:00 Annual Trophy Shotgun Start
14:30 Groups Conclude Play
14:45 Welcome Drinks at the patio & BBQ
15:30 Prize Presentation
16:00 Chipping Contest
17:00 Bus Departs for Harbour Bar Port Baku to watch The World Cup Final 
VOTE FOR THE BEST CLUB IN AZERBAIJAN 
As part of growing the exposure for Azerbaijan as a golf destination we are nominated as a finalist of 2018 World Golf Awards! Your vote matters! Please support us and cast your valuable vote for Dreamland Golf Club!
Re-Play Golf Cart Rental
Given the great weather and playing conditions we see good demand for players wishing to play additional holes after they have completed their morning round. To accommodate this and ensure we have the first tee runs smoothly we ask that players book in with the Golf Shop and hire the cart for a further 9 holes or 18 holes. 
British Open Medal - 22nd July 2018
We look forward to seeing members participate in the July Medal Qualifier which will also be played with our annual Open Medal tournament on Sunday 22nd of July. All our Medal players will have the chance to draw a player name among the players who made the cut in the 2018 Open Tournament which will be played at Carnoustie. Your Net score will be added to the professional players 72 hole score to determine our winner here in Baku. Be sure to play in the Britsih Open Medal to be part of this event!
Members Trips
Date Confirmed – Anton had an enjoyable trip to Georgia and as a result are pleased to announce that we will travel up at the end of our season for Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th of October. Current plans include travelling up on the Friday for a practise ahead of the 2 days of golf. We hope for future years the date will fall closer to the summer however the new course which will host the match, Tbilisi Hills is not officially open for play until September 2018. We look forward to confirming final timings with Gary and Perry Einfeldt (GM of Tbilisi Hills) so we can look at flight options and get our team ready to play for the 2018 Azerbaijan v Georgia Friendship Trophy.
 
Russia Update - We are looking at taking names for players interested in playing golf in Moscow on the EID holiday 22nd, 23rd and 24th of August 2018. We have some great courses lined up to play including Moscow Golf and Country Club – home of the Senior’s Tour event and others located in close proximity. For anyone interested in receiving more details and to register interest please contact Anton Samsonov – Anton.samsonov@dreamlandgolfclub.com
 
Qatar Trip – Doha will soon have a second golf course as Education City Golf Club is set to open towards the end of 2018. Michael Braidwood GM for the new project has visited Baku and participated in our Mercedes Event in May this year. He is keen for us to experience the new course in November as temperatures will be perfect for a game.  We look forward to updating with more news on this visit. 
Saturday 7th of July 2018 – Saturday Roll Up Results 
Due to windy playing conditions only 22 players participated in last week’s Saturday Roll Up. Results were low as expected and Chris Wood-Woolley took first place with 3 over par 33 points. Robert McEwan took second place with 4 over par 32 points. Third place was taken by John McGhee with his 5 over par 31 points.
Last Saturday two players had 2s on their card. Chris Wood-Woolley birdied the 5th hole and Stuart McLean birdied the 17th hole to put 2 on their scorecards.
Dreamland Golf Club Members’ 2018 Match-play Championship Sponsored by Valedictorian Putters
We are delighted to see that the Round two club Matchplay ties were almost completed on time except one match is remaining due to rotational leave of players. PLEASE ensure that you make early contact and play your third match before MONDAY 23rd of July as we have provided four weeks time frame for the third round. It’s the responsibility of both players to arrange your match, please feel free to contact reservations to request the e-mail address of your opponent.   reservations@dreamlandgolfclub.com   
 
When booking a tee time for your game, please let us now that you are playing a match play, so our team can prepare scorecards ahead of your game. 
Retail News
Henrik Stenson Eyewear are proud to announce their “Open” competition for a chance to win a pair of the limited edition range of glasses which Henrik will wear at the 147th Open this year. For any purchase of HS Eyewear made in our Dreamland Golf Club Shop your name will go into a draw for a chance to win these exclusive shades. Don’t miss out!!
ACADEMY NEWS
Tournament Ready!
We are delighted to announce that two players from our National Team squad have been selected to play in a Global Junior Golf event.
Along with Dina Sotnikova and Elshan Quliyev, Nabi & Huseyn shall be travelling to Zavidovo PGA National Russia to compete in the ‘Zavidovo Juniors International’.  The golf course is a unique inland links design and will provide Nabi & Huseyn a fantastic challenge.  The opportunity to compete on this worldwide platform against the other nations top juniors shall be an invaluable experience for our single figure handicappers.  The 4 day event will be setup as a tour like experience to test the players all round game in challenging conditions.
Preparations have gone well with both players enjoying their golf and improving their skills/handicaps this season.  We wish them all the best in representing Azerbaijan in their first international tournament.
Break 100 Club
Break 100 Club sessions continue every Monday & Wednesday at 14:30 and 12:00 respectively. There have been many success stories since the series began. The first to break the barrier last month was Leona Paterson (seen pictured being presented with her certificate). This week’s topic is Putting and next week shall be Chipping. Everyone’s welcome – just 25 AZN per person.
Pre- Owned Clubs For Sale
Please find below the link to our Pre–Owned selection of golf equipment which we have on offer with the Golf Academy Team. Alex, Kamran or Emma are delighted to allow you to trial any of the items at the Driving Range, as you can see many of the leading brands are featured.
Footgolf is now available on a Monday evening from 5pm till 8pm with floodlight play available on our academy Par 3 course. This is a great new initiative to grow awareness in Azerbaijan and to mix the worldwide passion for football into golf course concepts and scoring system. If you have not tried this then we would highly recommend you get along on a Monday evening to try it out. We will certainly look to grow this concept in 2018. The cost is 20azn per person for 18 holes and we will provide the footballs. For more information on Footgolf please contact    academy@dreamlandgolfclub.com
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