Knoxville Open Explained

Visit Knoxville Open
Location:Knoxville, Tennessee
Establishment:1990
Course:Holston Hills Country Club
Par:70
Yardage:7028yd
Tour:Korn Ferry Tour
Format:Stroke play
Month Played:May
Aggregate:258 J. J. Spaun (2016)
To-Par:−26 as above
Current Champion: Harry Higgs
Map:USA#USA Tennessee
Map Label:Holston Hills CC
Map Relief:yes
Map Size:200
Coordinates:35.995°N -83.841°W

The Visit Knoxville Open is a golf tournament on the Korn Ferry Tour. It is played annually at the Holston Hills Country Club in Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. It is one of four original Tour events still played.[1] The Knoxville News Sentinel was the title sponsor of the tournament from 2000 to 2017, before Visit Knoxville took over as title sponsor in August 2019.[2] [3]

The 2021 purse was $600,000, with $108,000 going to the winner.

Winners

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Visit Knoxville Open
261 −19 Playoff Frankie Capan III
Rico Hoey 266 −14 1 stroke Chase Seiffert
Norman Xiong
Anders Albertson 260 −20 1 stroke Yuan Yechun
Greyson Sigg 260 −20 1 stroke Stephan Jäger
Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[4]
Knoxville Open
Robby Shelton 269 −15 1 stroke Mark Anderson
268 −16 3 strokes Im Sung-jae
News Sentinel Open
Talor Gooch 266 −18 1 stroke Jonathan Hodge
J. J. Spaun 258 −26 1 stroke Sam Ryder
Patton Kizzire 264 −20 4 strokes Brad Fritsch
Kim Si-woo
262 −22 2 strokes Bronson Burgoon
Peter Malnati 268 −16 1 stroke Blayne Barber
Matt Bettencourt
Miguel Ángel Carballo
James White
Darron Stiles (2) 266 −18 1 stroke D. J. Brigman
Scott Gardiner
Nicholas Thompson
267 −21 2 strokes Marco Dawson
Knoxville News Sentinel Open
Chris Kirk 268 −20 2 strokes Travis Bertoni
Knoxville Open
Kevin Johnson 268 −20 Playoff Bradley Iles
Jarrod Lyle 269 −19 Playoff Chris Kirk
Chez Reavie 271 −17 3 strokes Kyle McCarthy
Hunter Haas (2) 269 −19 5 strokes Gary Christian
Parker McLachlin
277 −11 1 stroke David Peoples
Hunter Haas 275 −13 Playoff Shane Bertsch
Justin Bolli
Vaughn Taylor 268 −20 Playoff Joe Ogilvie
Darron Stiles 272 −16 1 stroke Aaron Baddeley
Steve Ford
Buy.com Knoxville Open
Heath Slocum 265 −23 6 strokes Keoke Cotner
Joe Daley
J. J. Henry 273 −15 1 stroke Tripp Isenhour
Spike McRoy
Gene Sauers
Chris Smith
Nike Knoxville Open
Jeff Gove 277 −11 1 stroke Marco Dawson
Glen Hnatiuk
Carl Paulson
Robin Freeman 270 −18 Playoff Ryan Howison
271 −17 2 strokes Matt Gogel
Terry Price
Eric Johnson 272 −16 2 strokes Patrick Lee
Matt Peterson
Tom Scherrer 275 −13 Playoff Mike Sposa
275 −9 1 stroke Bill Murchison
261 −23 7 strokes Jerry Haas
Larry Silveira
Tommy Tolles
Greg Whisman
Ben Hogan Knoxville Open
Brian Henninger 200 −13 2 strokes Curt Byrum
Tom R. Shaw
Rick Todd
Frank Conner 198 −15 1 stroke Perry Arthur
Paul Goydos
Jeff Maggert 202 −11 Playoff Greg Ladehoff

Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the Korn Ferry Tour regular-season money list.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tour celebrates 20th year, will play 29 official events . PGA Tour . December 3, 2008 . https://archive.today/20120906173706/http://www.pgatour.com/2008/h/12/03/NWT_schedule/index.html . 2012-09-06.
  2. News: News Sentinel to be title sponsor of Knoxville Open . News Sentinel . Jesse . Smithey. June 2, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100609053115/http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/jun/02/news-sentinel-be-title-sponsor-knoxville-open/ . June 9, 2010.
  3. Web site: News Sentinel Open Presented by Pilot Swings Back into Action in Knoxville Aug. 22-28 . August 30, 2011 . March 25, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120325164545/http://www.knsopen.com/news/2011-05-16_News_Sentinel_Open_news_release.pdf . dead .
  4. Web site: PGA Tour statement regarding additional tournament cancellations . PGA Tour . March 17, 2020 . March 17, 2020.