{"id":24779,"date":"2026-06-21T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/24779\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:15:10","slug":"scottie-scheffler-looks-to-join-this-list-of-golfs-grand-slam-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/24779\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler looks to join this list of golf&#8217;s Grand Slam winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/scottie-scheffler\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie\u00a0Scheffler<\/a> will have some work to do Sunday if he wants to capture another major milestone.<\/p>\n<p>The Highland Park product is still chasing his career Grand Slam. He already owns wins in three of golf&#8217;s major championships, claiming victories in the Masters (2022, 2024), the\u00a0PGA Championship (2025) and the Open Championship (2025). The only major tournament left to conquer is the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p>As Scheffler chases another historic marker, here&#8217;s a look at the golfers who have secured a career Grand Slam and when they accomplished the feat:<\/p>\n<p>Gene Sarazen (1935): Won the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship in 1922. Added an Open Championship to his ledger in 1932. Finished off the Grand Slam with a Masters win in 1935.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Player (1965): Won the Open Championship in 1959. Added a Masters win in 1961 and PGA Championship win in 1962. Got the Grand Slam with a U.S. Open win in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Nicklaus (1966): Won the U.S. Open in 1962, then won the Masters and the PGA Championship in 1963. Secured the Grand Slam with a 1966 Open Championship victory.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Woods (2000): Won the Masters in 1997, then won the PGA Championship in 1999. Secured the Grand Slam with U.S. Open and Open Championship wins in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Rory McIlroy (2025): Won the U.S. Open in 2011, then won the PGA Championship in 2012. He won the Open Championship in 2014, then endured an 11-year wait to close out the Grand Slam with a 2025 Masters win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie\u00a0Scheffler will have some work to do Sunday if he wants to capture another major milestone. The Highland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[459,208,1060,9862],"class_list":["post-24779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scottie-scheffler","tag-article","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-tp-golf","tag-tp-highland-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}