Tournament information | |
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Location | Tabarka, Tunisia |
Established | 1994 |
Course(s) | Tabarka Golf Club [1] |
Par | 72 |
Tour(s) | Challenge Tour |
Format | Stroke play |
Prize fund | £70,000 |
Month played | October |
Final year | 1995 |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 281 Jon Robson |
To par | −7 as above |
Final champion | |
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The Tunisian Challenge was a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour, held in Tunisia in 1994 and 1995. The tournament was the only leading golf event held in Tunisia between the 1985 Tunisian Open on the European Tour and the 2015 Tunisian Golf Open on the Alps Tour, aside from the Tunisian Seniors Open. [2]
Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runners-up | Ref. | ||
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Tunisian Open Challenge | ||||||||
1995 | ![]() | 283 | −5 | 2 strokes | ![]() ![]() | |||
Tunisian Challenge | ||||||||
1994 | ![]() | 281 | −7 | 3 strokes | ![]() ![]() | [3] |
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