Russian Open

M2M Russian Open

Tournament information
Location	Moscow, Russia
Established	1993
CourseTemplate:Pluralize from text	Skolkovo Golf Club
Par	71
Length	7,025 yards (6,424 m)
TourTemplate:Pluralize from text	European Tour Challenge Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	Template:Currency
Month played	September
Final year	2015
Tournament record score
Aggregate	265 Per-Ulrik Johansson (2007)
To par	−23 as above
Final champion
Template:Flagicon Lee Slattery
Location map

The Russian Open was a golf tournament on the European Tour. The event was established in 1993, and was first held at the Moscow Country Club in Nakhabino, just outside Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

History

Originally contested over the first nine holes at the Moscow Country Club as an amateur tournament while the rest of the course was still under construction, the Russian Open became Russia's first professional golf tournament in 1994. It became an event on the second-tier Challenge Tour in 1996, and was added to the European Tour schedule from 2003. Between 2003 and 2005, it was an official money event on both tours, and from 2006 to 2008, it was solely an event on the European Tour calendar.

The 2005 prize fund of $500,000 was around a tenth of those of the leading events on the European Tour, even leaving aside the major championships and World Golf Championships. However, it was one of the richest tournaments of the season on the Challenge Tour. In 2006, when it became a European Tour only event, the prize fund doubled to $1 million, doubling again the following year, to $2 million.

The tournament was not played from 2009 to 2012 but returned in 2013 at the Tseleevo Golf & Polo Club. Tseleevo had hosted a Challenge Tour event, the M2M Russian Challenge Cup, from 2010 to 2012. The Russian Open moved to the Skolkovo Golf Club in 2015 where Andrey Pavlov made history when he became the first Russian to make the cut in a European Tour event. He finished 71st, last of those who made the cut.

Winners

Year	Tour(s)	Winner	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share (€)
M2M Russian Open
2015	EUR	Template:Flagicon Lee Slattery	269	−15	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Estanislao Goya	166,660
2014	EUR	Template:Flagicon David Horsey	275	−13	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Damien McGrane	166,660
2013	EUR	Template:Flagicon Michael Hoey	272	−16	4 strokes	Template:Flagicon Alexandre Kaleka Template:Flagicon Matthew Nixon	166,660
Inteco Russian Open Golf Championship
2009–2012: No tournament
2008	EUR	Template:Flagicon Mikael Lundberg (2)	267	−21	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon José Manuel Lara	210,237
Russian Open Golf Championship
2007	EUR	Template:Flagicon Per-Ulrik Johansson	265	−23	6 strokes	Template:Flagicon Robert-Jan Derksen	244,251
Imperial Collection Russian Open
2006	EUR	Template:Flagicon Alejandro Cañizares	266	−22	4 strokes	Template:Flagicon David Drysdale	130,642
Cadillac Russian Open
2005	CHA, EUR	Template:Flagicon Mikael Lundberg	273	−15	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Andrew Butterfield	67,600
BMW Russian Open
2004	CHA, EUR	Template:Flagicon Gary Emerson	272	−16	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon Markus Brier	67,903
2003	CHA, EUR	Template:Flagicon Marcus Fraser	269	−19	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Martin Wiegele	66,660
2002	CHA	Template:Flagicon Iain Pyman (2)	269	−19	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Benn Barham Template:Flagicon Guido van der Valk	30,000
2001	CHA	Template:Flagicon Jamie Donaldson	270	−18	3 strokes	Template:Flagicon Michael Archer Template:Flagicon Mikael Piltz	27,147
2000	CHA	Template:Flagicon Marco Bernardini	269	−19	3 strokes	Template:Flagicon Erol Şimşek	26,396
1999	CHA	Template:Flagicon Iain Pyman	273	−15	1 stroke	Template:Flagicon Hennie Otto	20,467
Moscow Country Club Russian Open
1998	CHA	Template:Flagicon Warren Bennett	270	−18	7 strokes	Template:Flagicon Max Anglert Template:Flagicon Ricardo González	20,467
Sovereign Russian Open
1997	CHA	Template:Flagicon Michele Reale	280	−8	Playoff	Template:Flagicon Heinz-Peter Thül	20,467
Russian Open
1996	CHA	Template:Flagicon Carl Watts	203	−13	2 strokes	Template:Flagicon John Mellor	14,624
General Motors Russian Open
1995		Template:Flagicon Simon Clough	294	+6
Phillips Russian Open
1994		Template:Flagicon Steve Schroeder
Russian Open
1993		Template:Flagicon Konstantin Lifanov

See also

• Open golf tournament

External links

• Russian Open Golf Championship – official site
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site