The English Challenge was a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour, played in England.

English Challenge
Tournament information
LocationLuton Hoo, England
Established1993
Course(s)Luton Hoo
Par71
Length6,983 yards (6,385 m)
Tour(s)Challenge Tour
FormatStroke Play
Prize fund180,000
Month playedSeptember
Final year2018
Tournament record score
Aggregate259 Thomas Detry (2016)
To par−29 as above
Final champion
England Tom Lewis

History

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The event was held for the first time in 1993 as the Collingtree Park Challenge and was played as the Stockley Park Challenge in 1994. There was a nine-year break before it made a one-off return in 2004 as the Donnington Grove Computacenter English Challenge Open.

The English Challenge returned to the schedule again in 2010 at Stoke by Nayland Hotel, Golf & Spa in Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk. Australia's Daniel Gaunt won the tournament by one stroke from English amateur Tommy Fleetwood and Scotland's Craig Lee.[1] The event was played Stoke by Nayland again in 2011 and 2012.

The event returned again in 2016 at the Heythrop Park Resort in Enstone as the Bridgestone Challenge.[2] In 2017, it moved to Luton Hoo and used modified Stableford scoring system.[3] The 2018 event was again at Luton Hoo but returned to the 72-hole stroke play format.

Winners

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Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up Venue
Bridgestone Challenge
2018   Tom Lewis 261 −23 5 strokes   Dimitrios Papadatos
  Sebastian Söderberg
Luton Hoo
2017   Oscar Lengdén 49 points 2 points   Nicolai von Dellingshausen Luton Hoo
2016   Thomas Detry 259 −29 12 strokes   Thriston Lawrence Heythrop Park
English Challenge
2013–2015: No tournament
2012   Chris Paisley 272 −16 2 strokes   Francis McGuirk Stoke by Nayland
2011   Benjamin Hébert 276 −12 2 strokes   Victor Riu Stoke by Nayland
2010   Daniel Gaunt 271 −17 1 stroke   Tommy Fleetwood (a)
  Craig Lee
Stoke by Nayland
Donnington Grove Computacenter English Challenge Open
2005–2009: No tournament
2004   Matthew King 272 −16 3 strokes   David Higgins Donnington Grove
Stockley Park Challenge
1995–2003: No tournament
1994   Ricky Willison 280 −8 Playoff   Jarmo Sandelin Stockley Park
Collingtree Park Challenge
1993   Kevin Morris 286 2 strokes   Olle Nordberg Collingtree Park

References

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  1. ^ "Australian Gaunt wins English Challenge in Suffolk". BBC Sport. 26 July 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  2. ^ "Bridgestone to sponsor Challenge Tour's English return". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  3. ^ "New format for the Bridgestone Challenge". PGA European Tour. 5 September 2017.
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