Visit Knoxville Open Tournament Week activities continue

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The Visit Knoxville Open marks the 11th tournament of the Korn Ferry Tour’s 26-event schedule.

This week will be the 33rd edition of the Visit Knoxville Open, one of four tournaments on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour schedule held every season since the Tour’s establishment in 1990. The other three events with such distinction are the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open Benefitting KU Wichita Pediatrics, Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr. Pepper and the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron.

Historic Holston Hills Country Club, a Donald Ross design which opened in 1927, is hosting the Visit Knoxville Open for a third consecutive year.

The Tournament field certainly contains a local flair. In addition to exempt players Wes Roach and VFL Spencer Cross, set to compete starting Thursday are former Halls High state champions Ryan Hall and Jake Hall as well as Jake’s current UT teammate, SEC Freshman of the Year and All-SEC performer Caleb Surratt, who fired a 9-under-par Monday at Oak Ridge Country Club to qualify.

From a last-minute sign-up to in the field. @Vol_Golf freshman and @SEC Freshman of the Year Caleb Surratt signed up for the Monday qualifier on his way back from his last collegiate event of the season and made his way into the @visitknoxopen. pic.twitter.com/m0NxEw0b3N
— Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) May 23, 2023

The 2023 Visit Knoxville Open field features 44 of the top 50 players on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List

Five of this season’s winners are in the field: Ben Kohles (two wins), Rhein Gibson, Spencer Levin, Grayson Murray, Chandler Phillips
Field includes 42 Korn Ferry Tour winners with 60 total victories, led by Ben Kohles with four
Field Includes nine PGA TOUR winners with 22 total victories, led by Mark Wilson with five
Two players in the field are currently inside the top 200 of the Official World Golf Ranking: Yuto Katsuragawa (No. 171) and Ben Kohles (No. 194)

WVLT coverage from Holston Hills Country Club continues each day through Sunday’s final round.

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