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.
Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up | |
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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.