Knoxville Open

Visit Knoxville Open
Tournament information
Location Knoxville, Tennessee
Established 1990
Course(s) Holston Hills Country Club
Par 70
Length 7,028 yards (6,426 m)
Tour(s) Korn Ferry Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund US$1,000,000
Month played May
Tournament record score
Aggregate 258 J. J. Spaun (2016)
To par −26 as above
Current champion
Rico Hoey
Location Map
Holston Hills CC is located in the United States
Holston Hills CC
Holston Hills CC
Location in the United States
Holston Hills CC is located in Tennessee
Holston Hills CC
Holston Hills CC
Location in Tennessee

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. 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.

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

Winners

Year Winner Score To par Margin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Visit Knoxville Open
2023 Rico Hoey 266 −14 1 stroke Chase Seiffert
Norman Xiong
2022 Anders Albertson 260 −20 1 stroke Yuan Yechun
2021 Greyson Sigg 260 −20 1 stroke Stephan Jäger
2020 Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Knoxville Open
2019 Robby Shelton 269 −15 1 stroke Mark Anderson
2018 Stephan Jäger 268 −16 3 strokes Im Sung-jae
News Sentinel Open
2017 Talor Gooch 266 −18 1 stroke Jonathan Hodge
2016 J. J. Spaun 258 −26 1 stroke Sam Ryder
2015 Patton Kizzire 264 −20 4 strokes Brad Fritsch
Kim Si-woo
2014 Martin Piller 262 −22 2 strokes Bronson Burgoon
2013 Peter Malnati 268 −16 1 stroke Blayne Barber
Matt Bettencourt
Miguel Ángel Carballo
James White
2012 Darron Stiles (2) 266 −18 1 stroke D. J. Brigman
Scott Gardiner
Nicholas Thompson
2011 Kirk Triplett 267 −21 2 strokes Marco Dawson
Knoxville News Sentinel Open
2010 Chris Kirk 268 −20 2 strokes Travis Bertoni
Knoxville Open
2009 Kevin Johnson 268 −20 Playoff Bradley Iles
2008 Jarrod Lyle 269 −19 Playoff Chris Kirk
2007 Chez Reavie 271 −17 3 strokes Kyle McCarthy
2006 Hunter Haas (2) 269 −19 5 strokes Gary Christian
Parker McLachlin
2005 Kim Felton 277 −11 1 stroke David Peoples
2004 Hunter Haas 275 −13 Playoff Shane Bertsch
Justin Bolli
2003 Vaughn Taylor 268 −20 Playoff Joe Ogilvie
2002 Darron Stiles 272 −16 1 stroke Aaron Baddeley
Steve Ford
Buy.com Knoxville Open
2001 Heath Slocum 265 −23 6 strokes Keoke Cotner
Joe Daley
2000 J. J. Henry 273 −15 1 stroke Tripp Isenhour
Spike McRoy
Gene Sauers
Chris Smith
Nike Knoxville Open
1999 Jeff Gove 277 −11 1 stroke Marco Dawson
Glen Hnatiuk
Carl Paulson
1998 Robin Freeman 270 −18 Playoff Ryan Howison
1997 Dave Rummells 271 −17 2 strokes Matt Gogel
Terry Price
1996 Eric Johnson 272 −16 2 strokes Patrick Lee
Matt Peterson
1995 Tom Scherrer 275 −13 Playoff Mike Sposa
1994 Vic Wilk 275 −9 1 stroke Bill Murchison
1993 Tim Conley 261 −23 7 strokes Jerry Haas
Larry Silveira
Tommy Tolles
Greg Whisman
Ben Hogan Knoxville Open
1992 Brian Henninger 200 −13 2 strokes Curt Byrum
Tom R. Shaw
Rick Todd
1991 Frank Conner 198 −15 1 stroke Perry Arthur
Paul Goydos
1990 Jeff Maggert 202 −11 Playoff Greg Ladehoff

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