The green is guarded by water to the front and bunkers on either side, making it an enjoyable challenge. The course lies within the Skolkovo Innovation Centre, making it the perfect place for an afternoon off for any visiting techies. The course has over a hundred bunkers and six lakes squeezed over its leafy 18 holes. Have you vivisred any other great Russian golf courses? The course is very open, so it can be deceptive because the fairways are actually more narrow than you think, and despite the openess each hole is a secluded world.
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Oldest clubs of Russia —. CityGolf But I was intrigued. I was in complete awe. Their contract was promptly agreed to, but ours was not. In the contract I submitted, I put a plan in it that had a legend: tee, fairways, greens and bunkers.
The guy reviewing it in the Commerce Department was not a golfer. You have a thing of known military significance — bunkers. Jones : When the Russians had a party, they had a party. Once you broke the ice with them, they were very warm. In Moscow, they took my son Trent to the circus. They took my wife and me to the Bolshoi Ballet. We tried to return the same hospitality when they came to see us in the States.
Bill Pollak , a friend of Jones, and a lawyer and sports agent : The Russians came to Washington a week before Thanksgiving. I asked them how familiar they were with the traditions of Thanksgiving, and it was very little. It was wonderfully colorful and joyful. They combined our Thanksgiving traditions with Russian traditions — singing and drinking and just thoroughly enjoying eating turkey and all the trimmings. Jones : All but one of them had never been out of the Soviet Union.
They were amazed. We went to a football game, Cal versus Stanford, big game. Stafford : There were a lot of really, really fun times, and the Russians we dealt with were completely enjoyable people with very similar senses of humor. Antti Peltoniemi : When we first started construction, we had mainly Finnish and other experienced foreign workers building the log houses, the clubhouse and the golf course.
There were 22 nationalities represented on the workforce, including somebody from Ecuador, who was the farthest away. But throughout the years, we were able to train and teach those Russian nationals to build and eventually maintain the course. We started cooperating very well. They were willing to learn and are quite quick to learn if you explain what you are doing. By the end, we had only a couple of supervisors from Finland.
Copetas : I vividly remember one evening, long before the course was completed, we were in my car, along with two American golf-course shapers. For some reason, Bobby had all these golf clubs on the floor in the back seat, and there were more in the trunk. What the shapers knew about Russia is from, like, hiding under desks. And Bobby proceeds to give one of the cops a lesson in how to swing a golf club, in the middle of the night in Moscow.
Peltoniemi : Because Star Wars [the Strategic Defense Initiative program] kind of ended during the Reagan time, one of the superintendents on the golf course was a cosmonaut. He was a guy who was supposed to go to space, but then because the program fell away, he came to work on the golf course.
We trained him in Finland, and Bobby trained him in the United States. So that was interesting. Jones : When we were clearing the forest, we came upon, literally, a bunker that you could see had been shoveled out, and the trees had grown up around it. We left it as a symbol of turning swords into plowshares. Challenging weather and financial problems posed significant hurdles, but it was political unrest that nearly did the project in.
Jones : We had nine holes that were just grown in when the Soviet Union collapsed in — and then nobody came to work, nobody. Antti got his Finnish guys, and I got one of our guys, and we maintained the course for them for about a year for nothing, just to keep it alive.
We always felt that if the course ever stopped, the new manager would let it go back to nature. Copetas : Bobby saw it as his patriotic duty to bring Nakhabino to completion. And he had a lot of friends in Russia, too. Because of this, he showed a patience that very few others ever did when dealing with the Russians… When Bobby came to Moscow — and I saw him on just about every trip — the officials at UPDK, who were dyed-in-the-wool Soviet apparatchiks, treated Bobby with a courtesy and respect and curiosity that I can honestly say I never saw with any other American there doing business.
Peltoniemi : Before you start seeding, there are small rocks or stones on the ground. At the end of finishing the course, our boss, the site manager, went to talk with the colonel at a military base close by.
About Russian soldiers came over and walked each hole in a line, picking up all the small stones. A nine-hole tournament takes place in Copetas : The one thing that the Russians demanded from day one was that once the club opened, they wanted a Russian golf pro, of which there were none.
So the Russians did some kind of hunt through the sports academy to find anyone who had any knowledge of golf whatsoever, and they found this kid and made him the golf pro. One morning, he woke up very early and decided to take a walk. He wanders into this beautiful park area. All of a sudden, he hears voices screaming at him very loudly. He looks up in the air and sees this white sphere coming at him that hits him in the head and knocks him out. He took that as a sign from God that he should learn about golf.
And thus was born the first Russian golf pro. The inaugural Russian Open championship, a hole event, takes place in September
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