Grand Slam (golf)

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The Grand Slam in professional golf is winning all major golf championships in the same calendar year.

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Grand Slam in men's golf is an unofficial term used to describe golfers who win all four major championships in a calendar year.

In the modern era, the Grand Slam requires victory in Masters Tournaments, US Open, Open Championships (also known as English Open), and PGA Championships in one calendar year.

Prior to the making of the Master Tournament, the US and British national amateur championships were regarded as major championships. During the previous era, the Grand Slam consisted of a successive win in the US Amateur, British Amateurs along with the US Open and Open Championships.

Only Bobby Jones ever finished Grand Slam. No human has ever reached the modern era of Grand Slam. Tiger Woods won all four major events sequentially in a 365 day period, but his victory spread over two calendar years.

The term also refers to the previous tournament tour, the PGA Grand Slam of Golf, an off-season annual tournament (which was canceled after the 2014 tournament) contested by the winners of four major championships.

In the annual play sequences, the modern big championships are:

1. April - Master Tournament (weekend of second Sunday in April) - hosted as an invite by and playing at Augusta National Golf Club
2. June - US Open (weekend ends on Week 3 in June) - hosted by USGA and played in various locations in the US
3. July - The Open Championship ("The Open", sometimes called "the British Open" outside the UK) (the weekend containing the 3rd Friday in July) - hosted by The R & amp; A and always play in link courses at various locations in the United Kingdom
4. August - PGA Championship (USPGA) (3rd weekend before Labor Day weekend) - hosted by PGA America and played in various locations in the US. The PGA Championship will move to May from 2019.

The term "Grand Slam" was first applied to the achievement of Bobby Jones in winning four major golf events of 1930: Open Championships, US Open, US Amateurs, and British Amateurs. When Jones won his fourth, the sports world sought ways to capture the magnitude of his achievements. Until then, there was no term to describe such a feat because no one thought possible. The Atlanta Journal O. B. Keeler calls it "Grand Slam," borrowing the term bridge. George Trevor of New York Sun wrote that Jones had "invaded an impenetrable golf course." Keeler then writes words that will always be associated with one of the greatest individual achievements in sports history:

This victory, the fourth major title in the same season and within four months, now and so far has entrusted Bobby Jones safely in the Quadreateral of Golf, which is a granite fortress that he himself can take with escalade, and that others may attacking in vain, forever.

Jones remains the only person who has reached the Grand Slam, since before the creation of The Masters and the advent of the professional era, the amateur championship is considered a great championship.

The modern definition can not be applied until at least 1934, when the Masters were founded, and still carries a bit of weight in 1953 when Ben Hogan won the Masters, US Open and Open Championships. That year, it was impossible to win all four because the PGA Championship was preceded and overlapped with the Open Championships; The 36-hole PGA match of the semifinal and final matches near Detroit is the same day with a mandatory 36-hole qualifier at Carnoustie in Scotland for the Open Championship; the only way to compete in both events is to lose the initial game on the PGA. Hogan is the only player who has won the Masters, US Open and Open Championship in the same calendar year.

In 1960, Arnold Palmer won the Masters in April and the US Open in June. According to his autobiography, The Life of a Golfer, he and his friend Bob Drum (from Pittsburgh Press), while on a trans-Atlantic flight to the Open Championships at St Andrews, came up with the idea that adding it and the PGA Championship title that July would is a modern Grand Slam. The drum spread the idea among the media collected and it was caught. Two years earlier, the PGA had turned into a stroke game, and it began to be held two weeks after the Open Championship in 1960. The scheduling issue continued until the 1960s when the last two majors were held in successive weeks in July on five occasions. The PGA was played in August 1965 but returned to July for the next three. With the formation of the Tournament Players Division at the end of 1968, now the PGA Tour, the PGA Championship permanently moved to August in 1969, except for the 1971 edition, held in late February to escape Florida summer heat.

Tiger Woods came closest to fulfilling the modern definition of Grand Slam golf by holding all four major modern championships simultaneously - the US Open, Open Championship, and PGA Championship in 2000 and the 2001 Masters - though not in the same calendar year. This has been referred to as Grand Slam Berturut or, after the only player to achieve it, Tiger Slam . In other sports with the big four format, it's called the Grand Slam non-calendar year , based on the 1982 decision. In fact, even before Woods completed this, there was much debate about the definition of "Grand Slam." The Fred couple said, "I do not know how I can make it easier... if he wins the four, it's Slam." As mentioned above, since there is no official definition, there is no definite answer.

Only five golfers have won all four modern golf majors at any time during their careers, a feat often referred to as the Grand Slam Career: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Players, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods. Woods and Nicklaus have won each of the four majors at least three times.

A number of dominant players from their era have failed to reach a Grand Slam Career because of their inability to win a certain majors. Sam Snead and Phil Mickelson (until 2017) failed to win the US Open; Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson, and Jordan Spieth (until 2017) failed to win the PGA Championship; Lee Trevino and Rory McIlroy (through 2018) failed to win The Masters; Byron Nelson and Raymond Floyd failed to win the Open Championship, where the first only competed once. This deficiency has been attributed to a variety of factors: certain majors are incompatible with players' play (this is cited mainly with regard to Trevino and The Masters); players do not have the ability to fully adapt to the majors; the player only suffered bad luck (Mickelson came second with a record six times in the US Open); or war has caused major cancellations during the major players.

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Pre-Master era

Master era

Men lose majors

^ Hagen holds the all-time record of five PGA Championship wins, which he shares with Jack Nicklaus, but they happen during matches.
? Barnes never got a chance to play in the Masters Tournament during his career, as it was founded in 1934. However, he won three Western Open titles, regarded as majors in the pre-War golf era. Walter Hagen and Tommy Armor competed in the Masters, towards the end of their career, without success, but also the Western Open champion in the pre-Masters era, Hagen on five occasions between 1916 and 1932 and Armor in 1929.

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Grand Slam Princess

Golf ladies also have a set of majors. No woman has completed the Grand Slam of the top four, but Babe Zaharias won all three majors contested in 1950 and Sandra Haynie won both majors in 1974.

Seven women have completed the Grand Slam Career by winning four different majors. There are variations in the set of four tournaments involved as players playing in different eras, and women's tournaments defined as "majors" have varied over time in a way that is not parallel in the men's game. Seven are Pat Bradley, Juli Inkster, Inbee Park, Annika SÃÆ'¶renstam, Louise Suggs, Karrie Webb, and Mickey Wright. Webb is separately recognized by the LPGA as the only "Super Career Grand Slam" winner, as he is the only one of the group to win five different tournaments recognized as majors.

Although other women's tours, especially the Ladies European Tour (LET) and LPGA of the Japan Tour, recognize a different set of "majors", the LPGA US is dominant in global women's golf phrases "female majors", without further qualification, almost universally considered a reference to the US LPGA department.

The five major championships today are:

March/April - ANA Inspiration (the week ending on the first Sunday of April) - Established by Dinah Shore, it is most remembered by the winners who took the "lake jump" into the water that surrounds the 18th green , also called "LPGA Green Jacket" refers to the ceremony held in the Master Tournament. It shares another trait with Masters - held in the same place every year, Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California.

June - KPMG Women's PGA Championships (historically held in the week ending on the second Sunday in June; since 2010, ending on the last Sunday of June) - hosted by PGA of America since 2015 and playing in various locations in the US.

June/July - The US Women's Open (historically three weeks after the LPGA Championship; in 2010, a week after and in 2011 two weeks after) - Guided by USGA, held at various golf courses around the nation. It is considered by some to be the largest majors on the LPGA circuit, although that fact was not approved by the Ladies European Tour. It was held in various programs throughout the United States.

July/August - The British Open Ricoh Women (historically the first week of August Week, since 2009, three weeks after the US Women's Open) - It is hosted by the Ladies Golf Union and has been hosted at a link course since 2002. 2007 marks the first time held in a place that is considered by many to be the world's greatest golf course, and certainly the most historic, Old Course in St Andrews. The 2012 edition was held in September to avoid a conflict with the 2012 Summer Olympics in London; in 2013, it goes back to its traditional July/August date. Before 2013, this was the only championship that was confirmed as big by LPGA and LET.

September - Evian Championship, an event held in France historically known as Evian Masters, became the LPGA's fifth major championship in 2013. This tournament has been the premier LET since its inception in 1994, and was sanctioned as an LPGA tour event regular from 2000 to 2012.

Grand Slam Women's Career

Super Grand Slam

Leadership Period/Western Open Era

du Maurier Classic Era

Women's English Open Championship Era

Era Evian Championship

^A Inbee Park is recognized as a Grand Slam career achievement for winning four major championships, even though the Evian Championship has since been established as the fifth major championship.

Major female major

^A Patty Berg is the all-time record holder of most of the Titleholders and the victory of the Western Open Princess.
^B Amy Alcott is tied to ANA The most inspirational of all time wins.
^C Betsy King is bound to win ANA Inspiration at most time.
^D Betsy Rawls is tied to most US women of all time Open wins. Notes: Mallon won two Canadian Open Women Championships after being replaced by the British Open Women.

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Senior Grand Slam

Golf senior men (ie, 50 and more) also have a set of majors. Like women's majors, senior majors are not recognized globally. However, since the Champions Tour (operated by the PGA Tour) in the US is dominating senior golf around the world, its department list is by far the most widely known.

Unlike the main men's and women's Grand Slams (until 2013), the senior version (as acknowledged by the Champions Tour) now contains five events, arguably making Grand Slam seniors a better achievement than in the main men's golf.

In the current play sequence, the five majors are:

1. Tradition (ends on the third or fourth Sunday in May, depending on the calendar)
2. The Senior PGA Championship (one week after Tradition, ending the day before US Festivals Day, observed on the last Monday of May)
3. Senior Player Championship (ends on the last Sunday of June or first Sunday in July, depending on the calendar)
4. US. Senior Open (ended on Sunday in July two weeks before The Senior Open Championship)
5. Senior Open Championship (ends on the last Sunday in July)

The PGA Senior is by far the oldest of the senior majors, established in 1937, several decades before the formation of the Champions Tour (as a PGA Tour Senior) in 1980. Other events were all established in the 1980s - the US Senior Open in 1980, Senior Player Championship in 1983, The Senior Open in 1987, and The Tradition in 1989. This era saw senior golf become a commercial success as the first golfing star in the television era, such as Arnold Palmer and Gary Player, reaching the age of fifties. Open Senior, however, was not recognized as a Champions Tour until 2003.

Stability majors in senior golf fall somewhere between main men's golf and LPGA:

• The main men's list of majors is unchanged because the concept of a professional "Grand Slam" is generally recognized. The number of tournaments admitted by the LPGA as majors, as well as the identity of these shows, has varied considerably over the past few decades. Two tournaments once regarded as LPGA majors ceased to exist, and one third lost their primary status but survived as regular tour events. In senior golf, the number of majors has changed over the years, but always with the addition of new majors.
• In terms of scheduling in season, senior majors are much more stable than mainstream golfers or LPGAs, especially in recent years. With the exception of a one-time PGA Championship performance in February 1971, major majors have been held in the same order, and in almost exactly the same week of the year, since 1969. In women's golf, the scheduling of majors has stabilized in recent years, with occasional small change of date but no change of order. However, in senior golf, the order of majors has changed five times since 2006. The Senior Player Championship, held in July 2006, moved to October in 2007, August 2011, and until late June/early July 2012. The The tradition, previously held in late August, moved to early May 2011, mid-June in 2012, and mid-May in 2013. The US Open Senior moved from mid-July to August 2008; it returns to mid-July in 2012. The Senior PGA Championship and The Senior Open have retained their dates (respectively late May and late July) throughout this period.

Nobody has ever won any senior majors up for grabs in a year, even in the period between 1980 and 1982 when there were only two senior majors. Bernhard Langer is the only person who won five senior majors currently in his career. Miller Barber won both the 1980-1982 senior year, Senior PGA and Senior US Open, during that timeframe, and won the inaugural Senior Player Championship in 1983. All three tournaments will be the only senior majors until Tradition was first played in the year 1989. Prior to The Tradition's founding, Palmer and Player also completed Senior Sr. Career Grand Slam of that era. However, neither Barber, Palmer, nor Player will ever win the Tradition.

Jack Nicklaus is the only other player who has completed Senior Grand Slam's career in that era, doing so in his first two years on the Senior Tour. In his first year of eligibility in 1990, he won the Tradition and Senior Player Championship. The following year, he retained the Tradition title and went on to win the Senior PGA and the US Open Senior. However, he failed to defend his Senior Player title and therefore failed in the Grand Slam calendar year.

Nicklaus is the only player who has won four different senior majors in his career. Although Nicklaus never won the Senior Open, the show was not recognized as a senior US department until 2003, which was also the only year he played the event. The Player won the Senior Open three times before 2003, when it was regarded as major by the European Senior Tour but not the Senior PGA/Champions Tour.

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See also

• Men's premier golf championship
• Women's premier golf championship
• Chronological list of male golf main champion
• List of major male championships
• Triple Crown of Golf
• PGA Grand Slam of Golf - annual off-season tournaments contested by the winners of four major men's championships

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