English Challenge

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British Challenge
Tournament information
LocationWishaw, Warwickshire, England
Established1993
Course(s)The Belfry
(Brabazon Course)
Par72
Length7,053 yards (6,449 m)
Tour(s)Challenge Tour
FormatStroke Play
Prize fund£180,000
Month playedSeptember
Tournament record score
Aggregate259 Thomas Detry (2016)
To par−29 as above
Score49 points Oscar Lengdén (2017)
Current champion
Chile
Location Map
The Belfry is located in England
The Belfry
The Belfry
Location in England

The English Challenge is 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.[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 Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up Venue
British Challenge presented by Modest! Golf Management
2021 Chile 269 −19 1 stroke South Africa Oliver Bekker The Belfry
Bridgestone Challenge
2019–2020: No tournament
2018 England Tom Lewis 261 −23 5 strokes Australia Dimitrios Papadatos
Sweden Sebastian Söderberg
Luton Hoo
2017 Sweden Oscar Lengdén 49 points 2 points Germany Nicolai von Dellingshausen Luton Hoo
2016 Belgium Thomas Detry 259 −29 12 strokes South Africa Thriston Lawrence Heythrop Park
English Challenge
2013–2015: No tournament
2012 England Chris Paisley 272 −16 2 strokes England Stoke by Nayland
2011 France Benjamin Hébert 276 −12 2 strokes France Victor Riu Stoke by Nayland
2010 Australia Daniel Gaunt 271 −17 1 stroke England Tommy Fleetwood (a)
Scotland Craig Lee
Stoke by Nayland
Donnington Grove Computacenter English Challenge Open
2005–2009: No tournament
2004 Australia 272 −16 3 strokes Republic of Ireland David Higgins Donnington Grove
Stockley Park Challenge
1995–2003: No tournament
1994 England 280 Playoff Sweden Jarmo Sandelin Stockley Park
Collingtree Park Challenge
1993 Republic of Ireland 286 2 strokes Sweden Olle Nordberg Collingtree Park

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". PGA European Tour. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  3. ^ "New format for the Bridgestone Challenge". PGA European Tour. 5 September 2017.

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