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Russian Open Golf Championship Preview

Round 1: Four share lead with opening 65s

Round 2: Swedes lead the way at Russian Open

Round 3: Mikael Lundberg edges ahead

Round 4: Late birdies seal win for Mikael Lundberg

Russian Open Golf Championship Scores

2008 European Tour Schedule and Results

2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998

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DATES: Thursday, July 24th through Sunday, July 27th

SITE: Le Meridien Moscow Country Club, Moscow, Russia

COURSE ARCHITECT: Robert Trent Jones, Jr. (1993)

PAR: 72

YARDAGE: 7,154

Hole-By-Hole:	1 - Par 4 331 Yds	10 - Par 4 436 Yds
	2 - Par 5 525 Yds	11 - Par 3 175 Yds
	3 - Par 4 475 Yds	12 - Par 4 406 Yds
	4 - Par 3 177 Yds	13 - Par 4 427 Yds
	5 - Par 5 576 Yds	14 - Par 4 399 Yds
	6 - Par 4 413 Yds	15 - Par 5 561 Yds
	7 - Par 4 418 Yds	16 - Par 3 193 Yds
	8 - Par 3 197 Yds	17 - Par 5 548 Yds
	9 - Par 4 421 Yds	18 - Par 4 476 Yds
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	36 3,533 Yds	36 3,621 Yds

Annual:	13th
Defending Champion:	Per-Ulrik Johansson
Runner-Up:	Robert-Jan Derksen
Tournament Record:	269 (Marco Bernardini, 2000; Iain Pyman, 2002;
	Marcus Fraser, Martin Wiegele, 2003)
54-Hole Record:	197 (Benn Barham, 2002)
36-Hole Record:	129 (Iain Pyman, 2002)
Course Record:	62 (Iain Pyman, 2002)
Total Purse:	$2,000,000
Share:	1st Place - $334,573; 2nd Place - $223,048; 3rd Place - $125,666

2007 Finish
Player	Score	Player	Score
Per-Ulrik Johansson	265	Gary Murphy	277
Robert-Jan Derksen	271	Steve Webster	277
Alan McLean	272	Sam Little	278
Adam Gee	275	Henrik Nystrom	278
Christopher Hanell	277	Sam Walker	278
		Kasper Linnet Jorgensen	278

Past Russian Open Golf Championship Winners
Year	Winner (Score) -- Runners-Up
2007	Per-Ulrik Johansson (265) -- Robert-Jan Derksen
2006	Alejandro Canizares (266) -- David Drysdale
2005	*Mikael Lundberg (273) -- Andrew Butterfield
2004	Gary Emerson (272) -- Markus Brier
2003	*Marcus Fraser (269) -- Martin Wiegele
2002	Iain Pyman (269) -- Benn Barham, Guido Van Der Valk
2001	Jamie Donaldson (270) -- Michael Archer, Mikael Piltz
2000	Marco Bernardini (269) - Erol Simsek
1999	Iain Pyman (273) -- Hennie Otto
1998	Warren Bennett (270) -- Ricardo Gonzalez, Max Anglert
1997	*Michele Reale (280) -- Heinz Peter Thul
1996	Carl Watts (203) -- John Mellor

* - Won in Playoff

Note: Formerly called Sovereign Russian Open (1996-97), Moscow Country Club

Russian Open (1998), BMW Russian Open (1999-2004), Cadillac Russian Open (2005), Imperial Collection Russian Open (2006), Russian Open Golf Championship (2007).