The English Challenge is a

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tournament on the Challenge Tour, played in

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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 Stoke-by-Nayland is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England, close to the border with Essex. The parish includes the village of Withermarsh Green and the hamlets of Thorington Street and Scotland S ...

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. Australia's

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won the tournament by one stroke from English amateur Tommy Fleetwood and Scotland's

Craig Lee Craig Andrew Lee (born 9 May 1977) is a Scottish professional golfer who played on the European Tour. He lost to Thomas Bjørn in a playoff for the 2013 Omega European Masters. Career Lee had a successful amateur career in his home country, cul ...

. 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

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scoring system. The 2018 event was again at Luton Hoo but returned to the 72-hole stroke play format.

Winners

References

External links

Coverage on the Challenge Tour's official site
{{Challenge Tour Events Challenge Tour events Golf tournaments in England Sport in Essex 1993 establishments in England