There has already been one entry into the profession Grand Slam membership in 2025, however who will observe Rory McIlroy as the subsequent participant to hitch golf’s most illustrious group of main winners?
McIlroy grew to become simply the sixth participant within the trendy period to finish the profession Grand Slam along with his dramatic play-off victory at The Masters, defeating Justin Rose in a play-off to finish an 11-year watch for his solely lacking main.
The Northern Irishman grew to become the primary participant to attain the feat since Woods secured The Open at St Andrews in 2000 as a part of the “Tiger Slam”, with Jack Nicklaus, Gary Participant, Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen the opposite members of the membership.
Watch highlights of Rory McIlroy’s dramatic remaining spherical at The Masters, the place play-off victory accomplished the profession Grand Slam!
McIlroy’s success at Augusta follows previous victories on the 2011 US Open, 2012 PGA Championship, 2014 Open Championship and 2014 PGA Championship, making him the primary European to win all 4 males’s main titles.
There are two extra lively gamers requiring one lacking main, with Jordan Spieth only a PGA Championship victory away and Phil Mickelson needing a US Open win, whereas a number of gamers are two legs into their Grand Slam bids.
Jordan Spieth stays and not using a PGA Tour victory since 2022
Spieth’s greatest end on the PGA Championship got here when he ended runner-up to Jason Day in 2015, the 12 months he received his first two main titles, with the 2025 version at Quail Hole his eighth try to finish the set.
The previous world No 1 – who received The Masters and US Open in 2015 earlier than claiming The Open in 2017 – additionally completed tied-third in 2019, though he has ended no larger than twenty ninth in his 5 PGA Championship appearances since.
Jordan Spieth seems to finish the profession Grand Slam on the PGA Championship, with a number of others two legs into becoming a member of golf’s unique membership
Spieth has a lot extra probabilities through the years forward, whereas time is working out for six-time main winner Mickelson. The left-hander turns 55 throughout this 12 months’s US Open, having had six profession runner-up finishes at his dwelling nationwide championship with out victory.
Who’re the others closest to becoming a member of the Grand Slam membership? Take a look at a number of the different doable gamers in rivalry and have your say on who you suppose might grow to be the subsequent to win all 4 majors and make historical past…
Xander Schauffele
Majors – Two (PGA Championship 2024; The Open 2024)
Schauffele delivered the bottom 72-hole whole in males’s main historical past to say a one-shot victory over Bryson DeChambeau at Valhalla in 2024, earlier than lifting the Claret Jug later that summer season with a two-shot victory at The Open.
The American has completed no worse than 18th in his final 12 main appearances, posting prime 10s on the US Open in seven of the final eight years, and was additionally a to Tiger Woods at The Masters in 2019.
Highlights of the ultimate spherical from the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Membership, the place Xander Schauffele claimed his main breakthrough
Collin Morikawa
Majors – Two (PGA Championship 2020; The Open 2021)
Morikawa received the PGA Championship in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, registering a two-shot victory at TPC Harding Park in 2020, then beat Spieth by the identical margin to win The Open at Royal St George’s a 12 months later.
Collin Morikawa has produced a string of top-16 finishes in his final 5 main begins
The 2-time main champion has been inside the highest 20 5 years working at The Masters and in addition completed tied-fourth on the PGA Championship final 12 months, additionally ending no worse than 14th in every of his final 4 US Open appearances.
Brooks Koepka
Majors – 5 (PGA Championship 2018, 2019 2023; US Open 2017, 2018)
Koepka received back-to-back US Open titles from 2017 and claimed successive PGA Championship victories from 2018, earlier than successful the Wanamaker Trophy once more in 2023 to say a fifth main title.
Have a look again at Brooks Koepka’s 5 earlier main victories
The previous world No 1 has twice been a runner-up at The Masters, sitting tied-second behind Woods in 2019 and failing to transform a 54-hole lead as Jon Rahm received in 2023, whereas he has 4 profession prime 10s at The Open.
Dustin Johnson
Majors – Two (US Open 2016; The Masters 2020)
The American overturned a four-shot deficit within the remaining spherical to say a breakthrough main title with a four-shot US Open win at Oakmont in 2016, then produced a 72-hole scoring document at Augusta Nationwide to win a November version of The Masters in 2020.
Dustin Johnson was introduced with the Inexperienced Jacket by Tiger Woods in 2020
Johnson posted back-to-back seconds on the PGA Championship from 2019, ending two strokes again on each events, with the latest of his 5 prime 10s at The Open coming by way of a tied-sixth end at St Andrews in 2022.
Jon Rahm
Majors – Two (US Open 2021; The Masters 2023)
Rahm produced a birdie-birdie end to win the 2021 US Open by a shot over Louis Oosthuizen at Torrey Pines, then got here by way of a marathon Sunday to say a four-shot victory at The Masters in 2023.
Highlights from the ultimate spherical of The Masters in 2023, the place Jon Rahm claimed a second main victory
The Spaniard missed the reduce ultimately 12 months’s PGA Championship and solely has one prime 10 in his final six appearances on the occasion in comparison with top-seven finishes in three of the earlier 4 years at The Open.
Scottie Scheffler
Majors – Two (The Masters 2022, 2024)
Scheffler clamed his main breakthrough with a three-shot victory at The Masters in 2022, earlier than successful by 4 strokes at Augusta Nationwide two years’ later as a part of a run of 5 PGA Tour titles in a six-tournament stretch.
Highlights from the ultimate spherical of The Masters in 2024, as Scottie Scheffler claimed the Inexperienced Jacket at Augusta Nationwide
The world No 1 (as of Could 12) has top-eight finishes in 4 of his final 5 PGA Championship begins – together with a runner-up end to Koepka in 2023 – and in addition runner-up end on the 2022 US Open.
Bryson DeChambeau
Majors – Two (US Open 2020, 2024)
DeChambeau stormed to his maiden main title with a six-shot victory over Matthew Wolff at Winged Foot in 2020, then took benefit of a late slip-up by McIlroy to grab a one-shot win at Pinehurst No 2 in June 2024.
Highlights from an exciting remaining spherical of the 2024 US Open at Pinehurst No 2, the place Bryson DeChambeau snatched victory from Rory McIlroy
The American has posted top-six finishes in his final two appearances at The Masters, fading to a share of fifth in April regardless of briefly main in the course of the remaining spherical, whereas he has additionally posted top-four finishes in three of his final 4 PGA Championship appearances.
Justin Thomas
Majors – Two (PGA Championship 2017, 2022)
Might Justin Thomas win the PGA Championship for a 3rd time?
The previous world No 1 was the PGA Championship winner the final time it was held at Quail Hole in 2017, claiming a two-shot victory, then overturned a seven-shot deficit on the ultimate day earlier than beating Will Zalatoris in a play-off 5 years later.
Thomas’ greatest different main end was a fourth at The Masters in 2020, the identical 12 months he claimed his greatest US Open end with a share of eighth, whereas he has by no means completed larger than eleventh in his eight earlier appearances at The Open.
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