Given the strength in depth on the Challenge Tour trying to pick a winner is something of a lottery, but few players will feel quite as home at Stoke by Nayland Hotel, Golf and Spa – the venue for this week’s English Challenge – as England’s Gary Wolstenholme, MBE. At the start of the month, Wolstenholme – twice a winner of the Amateur Championship during a stellar amateur career – captured his first title since turning professional last year when he triumphed by four shots at the EuroPro Tour event held at the Essex venue. Wolstenholme held off the likes of the Club’s touring professional Jamie Moul and his fellow former Walker Cup player Luke Goddard, both of whom have returned to Stoke by Nayland Hotel, Golf and Spa for the inaugural €150,000 event. The 49 year old, who famously defeated a young Tiger Woods at the 1995 Walker Cup just before the American turned professional, is making his first Challenge Tour appearance of the season, but is hoping it will not be his last. http://www.europeantour.com/challen...7.html#wolstenholme carries course form essex
