{"id":204864,"date":"2025-10-11T06:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204864\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:56:10","slug":"golf-what-is-a-career-grand-slam-and-who-has-won-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204864\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf: What is a career grand slam and who has won it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A golf career Grand Slam is where a men&#8217;s player wins all four of the sport&#8217;s major titles over the course of their career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The four major titles are the Masters, The Open, US Open and the PGA Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A total of six players in men&#8217;s golf have achieved this feat, with Rory McIlroy becoming the first player for 25 years to complete a career Grand Slam since Tiger Woods in 2000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McIlroy also became the first golfer born in either Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales or England to complete a career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American duo Woods and Jack Nicklaus have both completed a career Grand Slam three times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A golf Grand Slam is slightly different and requires a player to win all four majors in the men&#8217;s game in the same calendar year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bobby Jones achieved this feat in 1930 by winning The Open, US Open, US Amateur and British Amateur championships &#8211; but they are not the four &#8216;majors&#8217; that are recognised today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woods did win all four majors consecutively &#8211; known as the &#8216;Tiger Slam&#8217; &#8211; but while he held all four trophies, they were not all won in the same calendar year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A golf career Grand Slam is where a men&#8217;s player wins all four of the sport&#8217;s major titles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-204864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}