Formby Hall Challenge
Encyclopedia
The Formby Hall Challenge was a golf
tournament on the Challenge Tour
that was played annually from 1996 to 2002. It was also an event on the third-tier MasterCard Tour.
With the merger of the MasterCard and Europro tours to form the PGA EuroPro Tour
in 2003, the tournament was dropped from the Challenge Tour schedule. Formby Hall, host venue between 1999 and 2002, continued to host an event on the new tour.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
tournament on the Challenge Tour
Challenge Tour
The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...
that was played annually from 1996 to 2002. It was also an event on the third-tier MasterCard Tour.
With the merger of the MasterCard and Europro tours to form the PGA EuroPro Tour
PGA EuroPro Tour
The PGA EuroPro Tour is a men's developmental professional golf tour. It was created in 2002 by the merger of two older development tours, the EuroPro Tour and the PGA Mastercard Tour. It is based mainly in the United Kingdom, with a few events in other countries...
in 2003, the tournament was dropped from the Challenge Tour schedule. Formby Hall, host venue between 1999 and 2002, continued to host an event on the new tour.
Winners
| Year | Venue | Winner | Country | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formby Hall Challenge | ||||
| 2002 | Formby Hall | Matthew Blackey | 275 | |
| 2001 | Formby Hall | Sam Little Sam Little (golfer) -Career:Little turned professional in 1997, and joined the Challenge Tour in 1999, where he recorded his first win in 2001. In 2004 he won for the second time at that level, and graduated to the European Tour at the end of the season via qualifying school... |
276 | |
| 2000 | Formby Hall | Fredrik Henge Fredrik Henge Fredrik Henge is a Swedish professional golfer.Henge was born in Lund and turned professional in 1997. He has earned his place on the top level European Tour several times, the first via qualifying school at the end of 1997 and twice by his position on the Challenge Tour Rankings, but has failed... |
270 | |
| 1999 | Formby Hall | Greig Hutcheon | 268 | |
| MasterCard Challenge | ||||
| 1998 | Princes | Fredrik Henge Fredrik Henge Fredrik Henge is a Swedish professional golfer.Henge was born in Lund and turned professional in 1997. He has earned his place on the top level European Tour several times, the first via qualifying school at the end of 1997 and twice by his position on the Challenge Tour Rankings, but has failed... |
277 | |
| BPGT Challenge | ||||
| 1997 | Wynyard Hall | Olivier Edmond Olivier Edmond Olivier Edmond is a French professional golfer.Edmond was born in Paris. As an amateur, Edmond represented France in the Eisenhower Trophy. He won the 1990 French Amateur Championship and the Brabazon Trophy . He turned professional later that year... |
267 | |
| Gosen Challenge | ||||
| 1996 | Warwickshire | Greg Owen Greg Owen Gregory Clive Owen is an English professional golfer.Owen was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He turned professional in 1992 and gained his European Tour card at the 1997 qualifying school... |
281 | |