Tournament information | |
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Location | Franklin, Tennessee |
Established | 2016 |
Course(s) | Vanderbilt Legends Club (North) |
Par | 72 |
Length | 7,190 yards (6,570 m) |
Tour(s) | Korn Ferry Tour |
Format | Stroke play |
Prize fund | US$1,500,000 |
Month played | September |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 269 James Driscoll (2016) |
To par | −19 as above |
Current champion | |
Grayson Murray | |
Location map | |
Location in the United States Location in Tennessee |
The Simmons Bank Open is a golf tournament on the Korn Ferry Tour. It was first played in June 2016 at the Nashville Golf & Athletic Club in Brentwood, Tennessee. [1] After the event was canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19, it moved to The Grove in May 2021 as a regular season Korn Ferry event. Once it was named the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Tournament of the year, [2] it was announced that the event would move to September to be a part of the Korn Ferry Tour Finals for the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour season and beyond. Beginning in 2024, the event moved to the Vanderbilt Legends Club's North Course as The Grove will be hosting LIV Golf Nashville's event. [3]
Korn Ferry Tour (Finals event) | 2023–Present | |
Korn Ferry Tour (Regular) | 2016–2022 |
# | Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner(s)-up |
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Simmons Bank Open | ||||||
9th | 2024 | |||||
8th | 2023 | Grayson Murray | 271 | −17 | 3 strokes | Mason Andersen Carter Jenkins Jamie Lovemark |
7th | 2022 | Brent Grant | 272 | −16 | 1 stroke | Kevin Yu |
6th | 2021 | Austin Smotherman | 272 | −16 | 3 strokes | Paul Haley II Yuan Yechun |
5th | 2020 | Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic [4] | ||||
Nashville Golf Open | ||||||
4th | 2019 | Robby Shelton | 273 | −15 | Playoff | Scottie Scheffler |
3rd | 2018 | Cameron Davis | 270 | −18 | 1 stroke | Kevin Dougherty Lanto Griffin Josh Teater |
2nd | 2017 | Lanto Griffin | 272 | −16 | Playoff | Abraham Ancer |
1st | 2016 | James Driscoll | 269 | −19 | 3 strokes | Brian Campbell |
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