Cooper Dossey holds two-shot lead after Round 3 at Visit Knoxville Open

Cooper Dossey birdies his final three holes (Nos. 16-18) of the third round en route to a bogey-free 8-under 63 as he grabs a two-shot lead over Doc Redman heading into Sunday's final round.

Charting the leader (stats entering week)

Cooper Dossey (first/-21)

• Leads the field in total birdies and eagles with 22 (21 birdies, one eagle)
• Holds first 54-hole lead/co-lead in what is his 64th Korn Ferry Tour start (previous 54-hole high position: T3/2024 AdventHealth Championship/finished T36)
• Bidding for first Korn Ferry Tour victory (best finish: T2/2026 Astara Chile Classic presented by Scotiabank)
• Boasts finishes of T9 (2025) and T22 (2024) in two previous starts at the Visit Knoxville Open
• Earned full status for the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour season with a No. 44 finish on the 2025 Points List (top 75) after beginning the season with conditional membership
• Finished No. 76 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, leaving him with conditional status for the 2025 season (top 75 players earned full status for the following Korn Ferry Tour season)
• Earned Korn Ferry Tour membership for the 2024 season via a T14 finish at Final Stage of 2023 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry
• Qualified for the 126th U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club next month through U.S. Open Final Qualifying at Dallas Athletic Club on Monday, May 18
• Played two seasons on PGA TOUR Canada (now PGA TOUR Americas) from 2022 to 2023, where he accumulated four top-10 finishes over 19 career starts
• Played five seasons at Baylor University (2016-21), where he was named a two-time All-American and the first player in program history to earn First-Team All-American honors in the 2019-20 season

Additional notes

• Seven of the 10 Korn Ferry Tour events this season were won by the 54-hole leader/co-leader.
• Thirty-six-hole leader Doc Redman (second/-19) cards a bogey-free 5-under 66 and is bidding to become the second two-time winner on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour season (Ian Holt: The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club, The Panama Championship).
• Knoxville, Tennessee, resident Bryce Lewis (third/-18), who played five seasons at the University of Tennessee (2019-24), establishes a new 54-hole high position (previous: T15/2025 Memorial Health Championship presented by LRS/finished T11) and sets a new 54-hole low score at 18-under 195 (previous 54-hole low score: 200/2025 Memorial Health Championship).
• Theo Humphrey (fourth/-17), who played four seasons at Vanderbilt University (2014-18), holds his best 54-hole position on Tour since the 2021 Veritex Bank Championship (first/finished second).
• Korn Ferry Tour winner Dylan Menante (T5/-16), who finished T3 at the 2025 Visit Knoxville Open, cards the lowest score of the third round with a bogey-free 9-under 62.
• Joe Weiler (T5/-16), who hasn’t recorded a bogey since the third hole (No. 3) of his opening round, logs a bogey-free, 6-under 65 and positions himself for a third straight top-10 finish at the Visit Knoxville Open (T8/2024, T9/2025).
• Korn Ferry Tour winner Rick Lamb (T8/-15) and sponsor exemption Hunter Wolcott (T8/-15), who both played collegiately at the University of Tennessee, both stand inside the top 10 after 54 holes.