Russian Open

M2M Russian Open
Tournament information
Location	Moscow, Russia
Established	1993
Course(s)	Skolkovo Golf Club
Par	71
Length	7,025 yards (6,424 m)
Tour(s)	European Tour; Challenge Tour
Format	Stroke play
Prize fund	€1,000,000
Month played	September
Final year	2015
Tournament record score
Aggregate	265 Per-Ulrik Johansson (2007)
To par	−23 as above
Final champion
	Lee Slattery
Location map
	Skolkovo GC Location in Russia Skolkovo GC Location in Central Federal District

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 edit

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.^[1]

Winners edit

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