{"id":1267711,"date":"2020-11-13T14:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1267711"},"modified":"2020-11-13T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:03:49","slug":"how-many-golfers-have-won-the-career-grand-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/how-many-golfers-have-won-the-career-grand-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Golfers Have Won the Career Grand Slam?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Winning golf's career Grand Slam is certainly no easy task. It's hard enough to win even one major championship and winning all four is next to impossible, which is why one only needs one hand to count the men who have won The Masters<\/a>, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship, and the PGA Championship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the best golfers<\/a> in history won three legs of the Grand Slam but couldn't finish things off. Walter Hagen never won The Masters. Neither did Lee Trevino. Sam Snead never won the U.S. Open but finished as the runner-up four times. Phil Mickelson<\/a> has had that same kind of problem as he's finished second at America's national championship a record six times. Byron Nelson and Raymond Floyd could never win The Open Championship. Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson never raised the Wanamaker Trophy at the PGA Championship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth still have plenty of chances to complete the career Grand Slam as McIlroy needs only to win The Masters while Spieth needs a win at the PGA Championship to secure golf's greatest accomplishment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only five men have won the career Grand Slam to this point: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player<\/a>, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods<\/a>. And just to get this out of the way at the start, Bobby Jones is not included on this list as we're talking about the modern majors. Jones accomplished his Grand Slam when The Amateur Championship and the U.S. Amateur were considered major championships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gene Sarazen was the first player to win the career Grand Slam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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