Players which have truly received the job Grand Slam in males’s golf

It’s one of the crucial distinctive membership in males’s golf, proprietors of the job Grand Slam.

Only 5 players have truly achieved the duty within the knowledgeable online game: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.

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

With successful Sunday at Augusta National, Rory McIlroy would definitely embrace his identify to the guidelines. The Northern Irishman received the 2011 UNITED STATE Open, 2012 PGA and 2014 Open.

Bobby Jones is moreover attributed for catching his variation of the job Slam, that included the united state Amateur, UNITED STATE Open, British Amateur andBritish Open In fact, he received them executed in 1930 for the each the interval and job Grand Slams– or the “impregnable quadrilateral,” as creator O.B. Keeler known as it on the time.

The idea of a specialist Grand Slam actually didn’t completely create until Arnold Palmer received the Masters and UNITED STATE Open in 1960. On his means to The Open, after that the third vital of the interval, he created the expression with buddy and authorBob Drum Palmer actually didn’t win The Open that 12 months but did catch it two occasions in his job. He didn’t, nonetheless, ever earlier than win the PGA Championship.

Here’s a contemplate when the males that did win all 4, recorded every vital for the very first time:

Woods, as element of his historic go for the millenium, moreover received what was known as the “Tiger Slam,” when he received the 2000 UNITED STATE Open, 2000 Open, 2000 PGA and 2001 Masters– 4 straight, over 2 intervals.