Some 1,500 fans turned out for Sunday's final round at the Moscow Country Club in Nakhabino, northwest of the city. They also got to see the club's former superintendent, American Dean Watkins, being presented with a 1995 Chevy Blazer for hitting a hole in one on the 162-meter par-3 fourth hole Friday.
"In three years of golf at our club, we had only two other holes in one," said tournament director Alexei Nikolov. "But none on the fourth hole, which is the toughest par-3 hole on the course."
Third place went to Japan's Tadahisa Inove with a 22-over-par 310. The best Russian, Moscow's Konstantin Lifanov, 21, finished seventh at 322.
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