The 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Season continues with the Visit Knoxville Open, the 11th tournament of the 25-event schedule. This will mark the 36th playing of the Visit Knoxville Open on the Korn Ferry Tour and the sixth at Holston Hills Country Club.

The field includes six PGA TOUR winners with 13 total victories, led by three-time TOUR winners Chez Reavie and Jim Herman. Additionally, the field features 54 Korn Ferry Tour winners with 76 career victories, led by four-time winner Robby Shelton.

Six players in the field stand in the top 200 of the Official World Golf Ranking: Ian Holt (No. 121), Davis Lamb (No. 154), Jeremy Gandon (No. 164), Alistair Docherty (No. 184), Doc Redman (No. 190) and Jay Card III (No. 199). The field also includes four former University of Tennessee Volunteers: Jake Hall (2019-24), Rick Lamb (2011-13), Bryce Lewis (2019-24) and Hunter Wolcott (2016-22).

Notables in the field

• Second-year member Ian Gilligan logged his Tour-leading sixth top-10 finish at last week's Colonial Life Charity Classic (T7) in Elgin, South Carolina. Hunter Eichhorn is the only other player on the Korn Ferry Tour this season with more than three top-10s (five). The former University of Florida Gator, who finished No. 4 in the PGA TOUR University Class of 2025, stands No. 8 on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List.
• Ian Holt, who stands No. 1 on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, returns to the Korn Ferry Tour after making his major championship debut at last week's PGA Championship (MC) at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. Holt, who is making his fourth start at the Visit Knoxville Open, finished T26 at last season's tournament in his first made cut at the event.
• Knoxville, Tennessee, resident Bryce Lewis, who is a member of Holston Hills Country Club, will make his second start at the Visit Knoxville Open. Lewis finished T17 at last year's Visit Knoxville Open, marking his best career finish on Tour at the time. Lewis, who is in his second season on the Korn Ferry Tour, played four seasons at the University of Tennessee (2019-24).
• Cole Sherwood captured his first Korn Ferry Tour title at the inaugural Colonial Life Charity Classic last week in his 44th start on Tour. With his win, Sherwood rises to No. 3 on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour Points List. After four seasons at Vanderbilt University (2020-24), Sherwood finished No. 7 in the PGA TOUR University Class of 2024, earning Korn Ferry Tour membership for the remainder of the 2024 season.
• Conditional member Hunter Wolcott, who played five seasons at the University of Tennessee (2016-22), will make his fifth start of the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour season. Wolcott, who is a member of Holston Hills Country Club, stands No. 8 on the 2026 PGA TOUR Americas Points List through three starts, highlighted by a T3 finish at the 94 Abierto Zurich del Centro presentado por Personal.

Tournament facts

• Course: Holston Hills Country Club; par 71, 7,267 yards
• Field: 156 players
• Defending champion: Pontus Nyholm
• Purse: $1 million ($180,000/winner)

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