These are the golfers who have completed a career grand slam: Who could be next?

Rory McIlroy finally got it done at the 2025 Masters and joined an elite group of golfers who have accomplished the career grand slam.

Few players have achieved golf’s career grand slam

McIlroy finally acheived the feat in 2025 after ten years of disappointment. He managed to get it done at the 2025 Masters by beating Justin Rose in the first playoff hole.

All eyes are focused on Jordan Spieth, who lacks only the PGA Championship to round out a career slam. However, the Texan hasn’t been able to put it all together recently and his short game, although it is great, is not enough to get him to the top of the leaderboards with such tough competition. He got off to a rough start on Thursday, shooting 5-over par, which complicates his changes of making the cut at the PGA Championship.

The first player to win a career grand slam, and the only player to have done so in a calendar year, was Bobby Jones in 1930. The US Amateur won the original grand slam by claiming the Open Championship, the US Open, the US Amateur, and the British Amateur in the same year.

In the modern era, the career slam consists of winning the four current majors: the Open, the Masters, the PGA Championship, and the US Open. No player has ever matched Jones’ feat of a calendar year slam, but six have managed a career slam: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.

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Only Woods and Nicklaus have achieved multiple career slams in that select group, and both players have completed the set thrice. Woods also completed the “Tiger Slam” in 2000-01, when the US great held all four majors simultaneously during his pomp.

Which players are still on for a career grand slam?

Spieth is one of the few with a chance in the near future, now that Rory is in that group mentioned above. There is one other golfer who lacks only one win to complete the grand slam. Phil Mickelson has three Masters, two PGA Championships, and an Open to his name, lacking only the US Open to claim a career grand slam.