The English Challenge was a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour, played in England.
History 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. 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. In 2017, it moved to Luton Hoo and used modified Stableford scoring system. The 2018 event was again at Luton Hoo but returned to the 72-hole stroke play format.
Winners YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin ofvictoryRunner(s)-upVenueBridgestone 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 ParkEnglish Challenge2013–2015: 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 NaylandDonnington Grove Computacenter English Challenge Open2005–2009: No tournament 2004 Matthew King 272 −16 3 strokes David Higgins Donnington GroveStockley Park Challenge1995–2003: No tournament 1994 Ricky Willison 280 −8 Playoff Jarmo Sandelin Stockley ParkCollingtree Park Challenge 1993 Kevin Morris 286 2 strokes Olle Nordberg Collingtree Park
References
External links Coverage on the Challenge Tour's official site