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Russian Open

Field	Value
name	M2M Russian Open
location	Moscow, Russia
establishment	1993
final_year	2015
course	Skolkovo Golf Club
par	71
yardage	7025 yd
tour	European Tour
Challenge Tour
format	Stroke play
purse
month_played	September
aggregate	265 Per-Ulrik Johansson (2007)
to-par	−23 as above
final_champion	ENG Lee Slattery
coordinates
map	Russia#Russia Central Federal District
map_label	Skolkovo GC
map_caption	Location in Russia##Location in Central Federal District
map_relief	yes
map_size	200

the regular golf tournament

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

Notes

References

[http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2015/tournamentid=2015068/news/newsid=269802.html Inspirational Pavlov the Pride of Russia]

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