Russian Open Golf Championship

Russian Open Golf Championship
Russian Open
Tournament information
Location Russia Moscow, Russia
Established 1993
Course(s) Moscow Country Club
Par 72
Length 7,154 yards
Format Stroke play
Prize fund $ 2,000,000
Month played July
Tournament record score
Aggregate 265 Per-Ulrik Johansson (2007)
To par -23 (as above)
Current champion
Sweden Mikael Lundberg

The Russian Open Golf Championship was an annual golf tournament on the PGA European Tour, and the only one on the tour's schedule that was played east of the former Iron Curtain. The event was established in 1993, and was held at the Moscow Country Club in Nakhabino, just outside Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia.

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 1995. It became an event on the second-tier Challenge Tour the following year, and was added to the European Tour schedule from 2003. Between 2003 to 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.

Through 2006, it was held on the same weekend in August as the PGA Championship, one of professional golf's four majors, which automatically made it a secondary event. In 2007, was held the weekend before the PGA Championship, but remained an alternate event, this time to the Bridgestone Invitational, a World Golf Championships event. In 2008, it was held the week after The Open Championship.

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 is not on the 2009 European Tour schedule.

Winners

European Tour

Year Winner Score
Inteco Russian Open Golf Championship
2008 Sweden Mikael Lundberg  267 (-21)
Russian Open Golf Championship
2007 Sweden Per-Ulrik Johansson  265 (-23)
Imperial Collection Russian Open
2006 Spain Alejandro Cañizares  266 (-22)

European Tour & Challenge Tour

Year Winner Score
Cadillac Russian Open
2005 Sweden Mikael Lundberg  273 (-15)PO
BMW Russian Open
2004 England Gary Emerson  272 (-16)
2003 Australia Marcus Fraser  269 (-19)PO

Challenge Tour

Year Winner Score
BMW Russian Open
2002 England Iain Pyman  269 (-19)
2001 Wales Jamie Donaldson  270 (-18)
2000 Italy Marco Bernardini  269 (-19)
1999 England Iain Pyman  273 (-15)
Moscow Country Club Russian Open
1998 England Warren Bennett  270 (-18)
Sovereign Russian Open
1997 Italy Michele Reale  280 (-8)PO
1996 England Carl Watts  203 (-13)

Pre European & Challenge Tour involvement

Year Winner Score
General Motors Russian Open
1995 United Kingdom Simon Clough [1] 294 (+6)
Phillips Russian Open
1994 United States Steve Schroeder 
Russian Open
1993 Russia Konstantin Lifanov 

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