Two decades in the making, Moscow Country Club, Russia’s first 18-hole golf course, debuted on the world stage 25 years ago this month. And the story of its creation — from Gorbachev and ...

I asked him if golf could become popular in Russia. He frowned. "It depend on the economic," he said. "On the government. Maybe, yes." 1. Future star Grigory Bondarenko. 2. Moscow Country Club.

MOSCOW, Russia -- David Drysdale may want to take up residence ... With exempt players scarce in the field, Drysdale knows Russia’s only 18-hole golf course is providing a great opportunity for ...

Moscow has never had a golf course. Soviet sports writers—earnest, class-conscious scribes—have often stigmatized the game as “hopelessly bourgeois.” Abruptly last week the Soviet State ...

OAO Sberbank, Russia’s largest lender, got state approval for its unit to acquire as much as 100 percent of the shares in Moscow Golf Club, Vedomosti reported, citing documents by the country ...