English Challenge

English Challenge

Tournament information
Location	Luton Hoo, England
Established	1993
Course(s)	Luton Hoo
Par	71
Length	6,983 yards (6,385 m)
Tour(s)	Challenge Tour
Format	Stroke Play
Prize fund	€180,000
Month played	September
Tournament record score
Aggregate	259 Thomas Detry (2016)
To par	−29 as above
Current champion
Tom Lewis

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

Contents

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  1 History
  


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  2 Winners
  


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  3 References
  


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  4 External links
  

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.^[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

Year	Winner	Country	Venue	Score	To par	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
Bridgestone Challenge
2018	Tom Lewis	England	Luton Hoo	261	−23	5 strokes	Dimitrios Papadatos Sebastian Söderberg
2017	Oscar Lengdén	Sweden	Luton Hoo	49 points		2 points	Nicolai von Dellingshausen
2016	Thomas Detry	Belgium	Heythrop Park	259	−29	12 strokes	Thriston Lawrence
English Challenge
2013–15: No tournament
2012	Chris Paisley	England	Stoke by Nayland	272	−16	2 strokes	Francis McGuirk
2011	Benjamin Hébert	France	Stoke by Nayland	276	−12	2 strokes	Victor Riu
2010	Daniel Gaunt	Australia	Stoke by Nayland	271	−17	1 stroke	Tommy Fleetwood (a) Craig Lee
Donnington Grove Computacenter English Challenge Open
2005–09: No tournament
2004	Matthew King	Australia	Donnington Grove	272	−16	3 strokes	David Higgins
Stockley Park Challenge
1995–2003: No tournament
1994	Ricky Willison	England	Stockley Park	280		Playoff	Jarmo Sandelin
Collingtree Park Challenge
1993	Kevin Morris	Ireland	Collingtree Park	286		2 strokes	Olle Nordberg

References

1. 
   ^ "Australian Gaunt wins English Challenge in Suffolk". BBC Sport. 26 July 2010. Retrieved 26 July 2010..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
   


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.
   

External links

• Coverage on the Challenge Tour's official site

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