English Challenge

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

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
Final year	2018
Tournament record score
Aggregate	259 Thomas Detry (2016)
To par	−29 as above
Final champion
Tom Lewis

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
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