Rory McIlroy\u2019s long-awaited Masters victory in April made him the first golfer in 25 years to join the sport\u2019s most exclusive club, but Scottie Scheffler\u2019s two-major haul in 2025 raised the possibility that the next career grand slam winner could be just around the corner.<\/p>\n
McIlroy, in his 11th attempt to complete the career grand slam, had to endure a topsy-turvy final round at Augusta National where he squandered a four-shot lead but then emerged from a crowded pack to prevail in a sudden-death playoff.<\/p>\n
After draining a four-foot birdie putt for the win, the Northern Irishman raised his arms before releasing years of pent-up frustration as he dropped to his knees and began to sob, providing one of the lasting images of the year in golf.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere wasn\u2019t much joy in that reaction. It was all relief,\u201d McIlroy said after the win. \u201cAnd then, you know, the joy came pretty soon after that. But that was \u2026 a decade-plus of emotion that came out of me there.\u201d<\/p>\n
By winning the Masters, McIlroy joined Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only men to complete the career grand slam of golf\u2019s four majors.<\/p>\n
That elite group could soon have a new member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy\u2019s long-awaited Masters victory in April made him the first golfer in 25 years to join the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[156332,116889,63795,4460,49,48,8420,3456,13260,116890,622,1979,13983,6674,119053,157356,12014,3747,13261,1974,82,6982,9753,2084,9754],"class_list":["post-367362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-augusta-national","tag-ben-hogan","tag-bethpage-black","tag-british-open","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-collin-morikawa","tag-europe","tag-gary-player","tag-gene-sarazen","tag-golf","tag-j-j-spaun","tag-jack-nicklaus","tag-liv-golf","tag-masters","tag-oakmont","tag-pga-championship","tag-pga-tour","tag-ryder-cup","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-sports","tag-tiger-woods","tag-tyrrell-hatton","tag-us-open","tag-xander-schauffele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}