Players that have actually won the job Grand Slam in males’s golf

It’s one of the most unique club in males’s golf, proprietors of the job Grand Slam.

Only 5 gamers have actually achieved the task in the expert video game: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.

Winning the contemporary Slam consists of catching the 4 majors: the Masters Tournament, PGA Championship, UNITED STATE Open and Open Championship.

With a success Sunday at Augusta National, Rory McIlroy would certainly include his name to the checklist. The Northern Irishman won the 2011 UNITED STATE Open, 2012 PGA and 2014 Open.

Bobby Jones is additionally attributed for catching his variation of the job Slam, that included the united state Amateur, UNITED STATE Open, British Amateur andBritish Open In truth, he won them done in 1930 for the both the period and job Grand Slams– or the “impregnable quadrilateral,” as author O.B. Keeler called it at the time.

The concept of a specialist Grand Slam really did not totally create till Arnold Palmer won the Masters and UNITED STATE Open in 1960. On his means to The Open, after that the 3rd significant of the period, he created the expression with buddy and authorBob Drum Palmer really did not win The Open that year yet did catch it two times in his job. He did not, nonetheless, ever before win the PGA Championship.

Here’s a consider when the males that did win all 4, recorded each significant for the very first time:

Woods, as component of his historical go for the millenium, additionally won what was called the “Tiger Slam,” when he won the 2000 UNITED STATE Open, 2000 Open, 2000 PGA and 2001 Masters– 4 straight, over 2 periods.