English Challenge

English Challenge
Tournament information
Location Enstone, England
Established 1993
Course(s) Heythrop Park Resort
Par 72
Length 7,088 yards (6,481 m)
Tour(s) Challenge Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund 180,000
Month played August
Tournament record score
Aggregate 259 Thomas Detry (2016)
To par −29 as above
Current champion
Belgium Thomas Detry

The English Challenge is a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour, played in England. It was held for the first time in 1993 and after the following edition there was a nine-year break before it made a one-off return in 2004.

The English Challenge returned to the schedule again in July 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 discontinued again after the 2012 tournament.

It returned again in 2016 at the Heythrop Park Resort in Enstone as the Bridgestone Challenge.[2]

Winners

YearVenueWinnerCountryScore
Bridgestone Challenge
2016 Heythrop Park Resort Thomas Detry  Belgium 259 (−29)
English Challenge
2013–15 No tournament
2012 Stoke by Nayland Chris Paisley  England 272 (−16)
2011 Stoke by Nayland Benjamin Hebert  France 276 (−12)
2010 Stoke by Nayland Daniel Gaunt  Australia 271 (−17)
2005–09 No tournament
Donnington Grove Computacenter English Challenge Open
2004 Donnington Grove Matthew King  Australia 272 (−16)
1995–2003 No tournament
Stockley Park Challenge
1994 Stockley Park Ricky Willison  England 280
Collingtree Park Challenge
1993 Collingtree Park Kevin Morris  England 280

References

  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". europeantour. Retrieved 3 September 2016.

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