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64-594: The Grand Slam in men's golf is an unofficial term for winning all four major championships in the same year. In the modern era, the Grand Slam requires victories in four tournaments in a single calendar year (listed in current playing order): Prior to the creation of the Masters Tournament, the national amateur championships of the U.S. and the UK were considered major championships. During that earlier era,

128-524: A "top ten" finish in all four of the majors in 1937, if his defeat in the last-16 round of that year's PGA Championship (then at match play) was considered a "joint 9th" position. Following 1960, when Arnold Palmer 's narrowly failed bid to add the Open Championship to his Masters and U.S. Open titles (and thus emulate Hogan's 1953 "triple crown") helped to establish the concept of the modern professional "Grand Slam", it has become commonplace for

192-539: A commercial success as the first golf stars of the television era, such as Arnold Palmer and Gary Player , reached their fifties. The Senior Open, however, was not recognized as a U.S. senior major until 2003 . The stability of the majors in senior golf falls somewhere between mainstream men's golf and the LPGA: No man has ever won all of the senior majors contested in a year, even in the period between 1980 and 1982 when only two senior majors existed. Bernhard Langer

256-620: A further eight occasions, majors have been won by a margin of eight strokes; this includes Rory McIlroy 's victory in the 2012 PGA Championship at the Kiawah Island Golf Resort , which is the PGA Championship event record. The record for a single round in a major championship is 62, which was first recorded by South African golfer Branden Grace in the third round of the 2017 Open Championship and equaled by Americans Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele in

320-408: A major boosts a player's career far more than winning any other tournament. If he is already a leading player, he will probably receive large bonuses from his sponsors and may be able to negotiate better contracts. If he is an unknown, he will immediately be signed up. Perhaps more importantly, he will receive an exemption from the need to annually re-qualify for a tour card on his home tour, thus giving

384-475: A major championship in their careers (although Barber would go on to win five senior majors ), and Fowler has also yet to win one. Note: The order in which the majors were contested varied between 1895 and 1953. Before 1916, the PGA Championship did not exist; Before 1934, the Masters did not exist. From 1954 through 2018, the order of the majors was Masters, U.S. Open, Open Championship, PGA except in 1971, when

448-484: A modern Grand Slam. Drum spread the notion among the gathered media and it caught on. However, a newspaper article on 12 April 1960 titled "Biggest Grand Slam May Be Palmer Goal" stated "Arnold Palmer, the Midas of the fairways, has charted a course which could carry him to the biggest grand slam in golf since Bobby Jones' feat in 1930. The Pennsylvania strongman with golfdom's golden touch passed his first landmark when he won

512-669: A nightly highlights programme. Sky also held rights to the PGA Championship, but in July 2017, it was reported that the PGA of America had declined to renew its contract, seeking a different media model for the tournament in the United Kingdom. The 2017 tournament was aired by the BBC (via BBC Red Button , with the conclusion of coverage on BBC Two ) and streamed by GiveMeSport (via Facebook Live ). Eleven Sports UK & Ireland acquired

576-405: A playoff for the win or for second place prize money and have ended up taking the third prize (e.g. 1870 Open Championship , 1966 Masters Tournament ). For match play PGA Championships up to 1957 the runner-up is the losing finalist. Along with his record 18 major victories, Jack Nicklaus also holds the record for most runner-up finishes in major championships, with 19, including a record 7 at

640-726: A result, the Players and the four majors will still be played across five consecutive months. The four majors – the Masters Tournament , the PGA Championship , the U.S. Open , and the Open Championship – are golf's most prestigious events. Elite players from all over the world participate in them, and the reputations of the greatest players in golf history are largely based on the number and variety of major championship victories they accumulate. Winning

704-529: A set of majors . No woman has completed a calendar year four-major Grand Slam, but Babe Zaharias won all three majors contested in 1950 and Sandra Haynie won both majors in 1974 . Seven women have completed the Career Grand Slam by winning four different majors. There are variations in the set of four tournaments involved as the players played in different eras, and the women's tournaments defined as "majors" have varied considerably over time in

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768-513: A tournament golfer some security in an unstable profession. He also is automatically invited to every other major championship for the next five years, and receives an exemption into the major he just won as well; depending on the major won, he can receive at minimum a 10-year exemption, and at maximum a lifetime exemption into the major. Currently, both the PGA Tour and European Tour give a five-year exemption to all major winners and they receive

832-461: A way that has not been paralleled in the men's game. The seven are Pat Bradley , Juli Inkster , Inbee Park , Annika Sörenstam , Louise Suggs , Karrie Webb , and Mickey Wright . Webb is separately recognized by the LPGA as its only "Super Career Grand Slam" winner, for she is the only one of the group to have won five different tournaments recognized as majors. Although other women's tours, notably

896-595: Is frequently considered to be an unofficial "fifth major" by players and critics. After the announcement that the Evian Masters would be recognized as the fifth women's major by the LPGA Tour , players objected to the concept of having a fifth men's major, owing to the long-standing traditions that the existing four have established. Because each major was developed and is run by a different organization, each has characteristics that sets it apart. These involve

960-500: Is often referred to as a Career Grand Slam : Gene Sarazen , Ben Hogan , Gary Player , Jack Nicklaus , Tiger Woods . Woods and Nicklaus have won each of the four majors at least three times. The term also refers to a former tour tournament, the PGA Grand Slam of Golf , an annual off-season tournament, that was cancelled after the 2014 tournament, contested by the winners of the four major championships. Women's golf also has

1024-486: Is recognized worldwide. Major championship winners receive the maximum possible allocation of 100 points from the Official World Golf Ranking , which is endorsed by all of the main tours , and major championship prize money is official on the three richest regular (i.e. under-50) golf tours, the PGA Tour , European Tour and Japan Golf Tour . The top prizes of each of the majors are not actually

1088-539: Is the only man to have won all five of the current senior majors in his career, having completed the career Slam by winning both the Senior PGA Championship and Senior Open Championship in 2017. Miller Barber won both of the 1980-1982 senior majors, the Senior PGA and U.S. Senior Open, during that time span, and won the inaugural Senior Players Championship in 1983. Those three tournaments would be

1152-481: The 2001 Masters — but not in the same calendar year. This has been called the Tiger Slam . In fact, even before Woods accomplished this, there was much debate over the definition of "Grand Slam." Fred Couples said, "I don't know how I can put it more simply . . . if he wins all four, it's a Slam." Only five golfers have won all four of golf's modern majors at any time during their careers, an achievement which

1216-635: The Ladies European Tour (LET) and the LPGA of Japan Tour , recognize a different set of "majors", the U.S. LPGA is so dominant in global women's golf that the phrase "women's majors", without further qualification, is almost universally considered as a reference to the U.S. LPGA majors. The five current major championships are: Inbee Park is recognized as achieving the career Grand Slam for winning four different major championships, even though The Evian Championship had since been designated as

1280-572: The Masters and the Open Championship , but never won the PGA Championship for a career grand slam .) After the practice rounds, a 60-foot (18 m) fir tree was installed on the par-5 third hole to prevent corner-cutting from the tee to an adjacent fairway, over the objections of the club professional. This was the final PGA Championship appearance for two-time champion Ben Hogan , age 53, who tied for 15th place. After his near-fatal auto accident in early 1949, Hogan's legs could not withstand

1344-548: The Masters , the U.S. Open, the Open Championship, and the PGA Championship . It is difficult to determine when the definition changed to include the current four tournaments, although many trace it to Arnold Palmer's 1960 season. After winning the Masters and the U.S. Open to start the season, he remarked that if he could win the Open Championship and PGA Championship to finish the season, he would complete "a grand slam of his own" to rival Bobby Jones 's 1930 feat. Until that time, many U.S. players such as Byron Nelson also considered

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1408-464: The U.S. Open (containing pros and amateurs), the U.S. Amateur (containing amateurs only), and the British Amateur (containing amateurs only). When Jones won all four, the sports world searched for ways to capture the magnitude of his accomplishment. Up to that time, there was no term for such a feat because no one had thought it possible. The Atlanta Journal ' s O. B. Keeler dubbed it

1472-615: The Western Open and the North and South Open as two of golf's "majors", and the British PGA Matchplay Championship was as important to British and Commonwealth professionals as the PGA Championship was to Americans. During the 1950s, the short-lived World Championship of Golf was viewed as a "major" by its competitors, as its first prize was worth almost ten times any other event in the game, and it

1536-504: The "Grand Slam," borrowing a bridge term. George Trevor of the New York Sun wrote that Jones had "stormed the impregnable quadrilateral of golf." Keeler would later write the words that would forever be linked to one of the greatest individual accomplishments in the history of sports: This victory, the fourth major title in the same season and in the space of four months, had now and for all time entrenched Bobby Jones safely within

1600-413: The 'Impregnable Quadrilateral of Golf,' that granite fortress that he alone could take by escalade, and that others may attack in vain, forever. The modern definition of four majors open to pros and amateurs could not be applied until at least 1934 , when the Masters was founded, and still carried little weight in 1953 when Ben Hogan won the Masters , U.S. Open , and Open Championship . That year, it

1664-526: The 24th Masters tournament yesterday with a pulsating stretch drive. Three more big ones remain- the U.S. Open in Denver June 16-18, the 100th anniversary British Open at historic St. Andrews July 4-9 and the PGA championship in Akron, Ohio, July 28-31. If the 29-year-old Palmer can add those three jewels to his Masters crown the performance will rank on a par with Jones' grand slam year." Two years earlier ,

1728-633: The 47th PGA Championship , played August 12–15 at Laurel Valley Golf Club in Ligonier, Pennsylvania , a suburb southeast of Pittsburgh . Dave Marr won his only major championship , two strokes ahead of runners-up Billy Casper and Jack Nicklaus . Marr was the co-leader after 54 holes with Tommy Aaron , a stroke ahead of Gardner Dickinson and two shots ahead of major champions Nicklaus and Casper. Aaron shot 78 and Dickinson 74 on Sunday, while Marr matched an even-par 71 with Nicklaus and Casper. Not far from his hometown of Latrobe , Laurel Valley

1792-399: The BBC. From 2011 onwards Sky Sports has exclusive live coverage of the first two days of the Masters, with the weekend rounds shared with the BBC. The U.S. Open is shown exclusively on Sky Sports. Beginning in 2016, Sky Sports also became the exclusive broadcaster of the Open Championship; the BBC elected to forego the final year of its contract. The BBC continues to hold rights to broadcast

1856-424: The Grand Slam comprised consecutive victories at the U.S. Amateur , The Amateur Championship (British Amateur) along with the U.S. Open and the Open Championship. Only Bobby Jones completed an original Grand Slam, in 1930. The term Grand Slam was first applied to Bobby Jones ' achievement of winning the four major golf events of 1930 open to amateurs: The Open Championship (containing pros and amateurs),

1920-602: The Masters, U.S. Open, and Open Championship in the same calendar year. In 1960, Arnold Palmer won the Masters in April and U.S. Open in June. According to his autobiography, A Golfer's Life , he and his friend Bob Drum (of the Pittsburgh Press ), while on the trans-Atlantic flight to The Open Championship at St Andrews , came up with the idea that adding it and the PGA Championship titles that July would constitute

1984-518: The Open Championship. Phil Mickelson has the second most with 12 runner-up finishes after the 2023 Masters, which includes a record 6 runner-up finishes at the U.S. Open, the one major he has never won. Nicklaus and Mickelson are the only golfers with multiple runner-up finishes in all four majors. Arnold Palmer had 10 second places, including 3 in the major he never won, the PGA Championship. There have been three golfers with 8 runner-up finishes – Sam Snead , Greg Norman and Tom Watson . Norman shares

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2048-515: The PGA Championship moved to August in 1969 and, except for the 1971 edition, held in late February to avoid the summer heat of Florida , continued to be held during that month until 2018 . From 2019 it is held in May. Tiger Woods came closest to winning a modern Grand Slam by holding all four major titles at the same time. He won all four major championships consecutively — the U.S. Open , Open Championship , and PGA Championship in 2000 , and

2112-540: The PGA had changed to stroke play , and it started to be held two weeks after the Open Championship in 1960. Scheduling problems continued through the 1960s as the last two majors were held in successive weeks in July on five occasions. The PGA was played in August in 1965 but returned to July for the next three. With the formation of the Tournament Players Division in late 1968, now the PGA Tour ,

2176-405: The PGA was played before the Masters. From 2019, the order has been Masters, PGA, U.S. Open, Open Championship. For the purposes of this section a runner-up is defined as someone who either (i) tied for the lead after 72 holes (or 36 holes in the case of the early championships) but lost the playoff or (ii) finished alone or in a tie for second place. In a few instances players have been involved in

2240-489: The Senior Players Championship. The next year , he defended his Tradition title and went on to win the Senior PGA and U.S. Senior Open. However, he failed to defend his Senior Players title and thus missed out on a calendar-year Grand Slam. Langer and Nicklaus are the only players to have won four or more different senior majors in their careers. Although Nicklaus never won The Senior Open, that event

2304-433: The U.S. Open and other USGA events, replacing Fox Sports — which had assumed the rights in 2015 under a 12-year contract, but withdrew and sold the remainder of the rights to NBC in June 2020. As of 2020, CBS and ESPN hold the broadcast rights to the PGA Championship, under a new contract that replaces TNT as the tournament's cable partner. In November 2021, NBC announced that early round and early-weekend coverage of

2368-454: The U.S. Open and the Open Championship would move from Golf Channel to USA Network beginning in 2022. The aggregate scoring records for each major are tabulated below, listed in order of when the majors are scheduled annually. The scoring records to par for each major are tabulated below, listed in order of when the majors are scheduled annually. Major championships have been won by a margin of nine strokes or greater on eight occasions. On

2432-455: The character of the courses used, the composition of the field, and other idiosyncrasies. In the United Kingdom, historically all four majors were broadcast on free to air TV. ITV has not broadcast live golf for many years. The BBC used to be the exclusive TV home of the Masters Tournament, U.S. Open and the Open Championship. By the early years of the first decade of the 21st century, only the Masters and Open Championship were broadcast live on

2496-488: The concept of the modern Grand Slam of Golf . In August 2017, after the previous year's edition was scheduled earlier due to golf at the 2016 Summer Olympics , the PGA of America announced that the PGA Championship would be moved to late-May beginning in 2019, in between the Masters and U.S. Open. The PGA Tour concurrently announced that it would move the Players Championship back to March the same year; as

2560-529: The costs of traveling to compete (in an era when tournament prize money was very low, and only the champion himself would earn the chance of ongoing endorsements), and on occasion even the conflicting scheduling of the Open and PGA Championships. In 1937, the U.S. Ryder Cup side all competed in The Open Championship , but of those who finished in the top ten of that event, only Ed Dudley could claim

2624-498: The current order of play, the five majors are: The Senior PGA is by far the oldest of the senior majors, having been founded in 1937, decades before the establishment of PGA Tour Champions (as the Senior PGA Tour) in 1980 . The other events were all founded in the 1980s—the U.S. Senior Open in 1980, the Senior Players Championship in 1983 , The Senior Open in 1987, and The Tradition in 1989 . This era saw senior golf became

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2688-401: The distinction of having lost playoffs in each of the four majors with Craig Wood (who lost the 1934 PGA final – at match play – on the second extra hole). Crampton was second to Jack Nicklaus on each occasion. Lee Westwood holds the record for the most major championship appearances without a victory, with 91 starts. 1965 PGA Championship The 1965 PGA Championship was

2752-529: The event became increasingly prohibitive for the leading American professionals. Their regular participation dwindled after the war years. Ben Hogan entered just once in 1953 and won, but never returned. Sam Snead won in 1946 but lost money on the trip (first prize was $ 600) and did not return until 1962 . Golf writer Dan Jenkins , who was often seen as the world authority on majors since he had attended more (200+) than anyone else, once noted that "the pros didn't talk much about majors back then. I think it

2816-533: The event for 2018 , as one of the first events covered by the newly launched streaming service. As none of the majors fall under the direct jurisdiction of tours, broadcast rights for these events are negotiated separately with each sanctioning body. However, as of 2020, network television coverage of all four tournaments is split equally between the PGA Tour's two main television partners, CBS and NBC . The Masters operates under one-year contracts; CBS has been

2880-485: The fifth major championship. Senior (i.e., 50 and over) men's golf also has a set of majors . Like the women's majors, the senior majors are not globally recognized. However, because the U.S.-based PGA Tour Champions overwhelmingly dominates worldwide senior golf, its roster of majors is by far the most widely recognized. Unlike the mainstream men's and women's (until 2013) Grand Slams, the senior version (as recognized by PGA Tour Champions) now contains five events. In

2944-414: The first round of the 2023 U.S. Open . In the first round of the 2024 PGA Championship , Schauffele became the first player to have multiple rounds of 62 in major championships. In the third round of that same tournament, Shane Lowry became the fourth player to record a 62 at a major championship after missing a birdie putt on the 18th hole that was for a 61 These are consecutive because there

3008-407: The grueling match play schedule and he did not play again in the championship until it became a stroke play event. He missed the 54-hole cut by a stroke in 1960 and tied for ninth place in 1964 . Hogan won the title as a match play event in 1946 and 1948 . Twenty former champions were in the field and twelve made the cut. Palmer was assessed a two-stroke penalty in both of the first two rounds and

3072-554: The highest priority in those rankings. Independent organizations, and not the PGA Tour, operate each of the majors. Three of the four majors take place in the United States. The Masters is played at the same course, Augusta National Golf Club , every year, while the other three rotate courses (the Open Championship, however, is always played on a links course ). Each of the majors has a distinct history, and they are run by four separate golf organizations, but their special status

3136-510: The largest in golf, being surpassed by The Players Championship , three of the four World Golf Championships events (the HSBC Champions , promoted to WGC status in 2009, has a top prize comparable to that of the majors), and some other invitational events. The Players Championship historically has offered a prize pool as large as or larger than the majors, because the PGA Tour wants its most important event to be as attractive. Although

3200-448: The leading players to be invited to, and indeed compete in, all four majors each year. Even so, those who have recorded top-ten finishes in all four, in a single year, remains a small and select group. ^ Never won a regular tour major championship in his career. On 14 of the 29 occasions the feat has been achieved, the player in question did not win a major that year – indeed, three of the players (Dudley, Sanders and Barber) failed to win

3264-557: The main TV partner every year since 1956 , with ESPN broadcasting CBS-produced coverage of the first and second rounds since 2008 (replacing USA Network , which had shown the event since the early 1980s). Beginning in 1966, ABC obtained the broadcast rights for the other three majors and held them for a quarter century. The PGA Championship moved to CBS in 1991 and the U.S. Open returned to NBC in 1995 . ABC retained The Open Championship as its sole major, but moved its live coverage on

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3328-509: The majors , are the most prestigious tournaments in golf . Historically, the national open and amateur championships of Great Britain and the United States were regarded as the majors. With the rise of professional golf in the middle of the twentieth century, the majors came to refer to the most prestigious professional tournaments. In modern men's professional golf, there are four globally recognized major championships. Since 2019,

3392-520: The majors are considered prestigious due to their history and traditions, besides The Players there are still other non-"major" tournaments which prominently feature top players competing for purses meeting or exceeding those of the four traditional majors, such as the European Tour 's DP World Tour Championship, Dubai , and World Golf Championships . With its large prize fund of any golf event and role as PGA Tour's flagship tournament, The Players

3456-490: The next two in 1961 and 1962 . Scheduling difficulties persisted with the PGA Championship, but more Americans began competing in the 1960s, restoring the event's prestige (and with it the prize money that once made it an attractive prospect to other American pros). The advent of transatlantic jet travel helped to boost American participation in The Open. A discussion between Palmer and Pittsburgh golf writer Bob Drum led to

3520-593: The only senior majors until The Tradition was first played in 1989. Prior to the founding of The Tradition, Palmer and Player also completed that era's Career Senior Grand Slam. However, neither Barber, Palmer, nor Player would ever win The Tradition. Jack Nicklaus is the only other player to have completed any era's Career Senior Grand Slam, doing so in his first two years on the Senior Tour. In his first year of eligibility in 1990 , he won The Tradition and

3584-413: The order of competition dates are as follows: The majors originally consisted of two British tournaments, The Open Championship and The Amateur Championship , and two American tournaments, the U.S. Open and the U.S. Amateur . With the introduction of the Masters Tournament in 1934, and the rise of professional golf in the late 1940s and 1950s, the term "major championships" eventually came to describe

3648-466: The weekend to sister cable network ESPN in 2010 . In June 2015, it was announced that NBC and Golf Channel would acquire rights to the Open Championship under a 12-year deal. While the NBC deal was originally to take effect in 2017, ESPN chose to opt out of its final year of Open rights, so the NBC contract took effect beginning in 2016 instead. As of 2020, NBC and Golf Channel hold broadcast rights to

3712-401: Was Herbert Warren Wind who starting using the term. He said golfers had to be judged by the major tournaments they won, but it's not like there was any set number of major tournaments." In 1960 , Arnold Palmer entered The Open Championship in an attempt to emulate Hogan's 1953 feat of winning on his first visit. Though a runner-up by a stroke in his first attempt, Palmer returned and won

3776-477: Was at 147 (+5), ten shots back. A decade later, Laurel Valley hosted the Ryder Cup in 1975 , the last Ryder Cup held in the U.S. without players from continental Europe . Source: Thursday, August 12, 1965 Source: Friday, August 13, 1965 Source: Saturday, August 14, 1965 Source: Sunday, August 15, 1965 Source: This was the first PGA Championship televised by

3840-408: Was co-founded by Arnold Palmer in 1959, who had another disappointing major in his home state and finished 14 strokes back, tied for 33rd. Three years earlier, he lost an 18-hole playoff to Nicklaus in the U.S. Open at Oakmont near Pittsburgh , then finished tied for 17th five weeks later at the PGA Championship at Aronimink , outside Philadelphia . (Palmer won the other two majors of 1962,

3904-455: Was impossible to win all four as the PGA Championship preceded and overlapped with the Open Championship; the PGA's 36-hole match play semifinals and finals near Detroit were the same days as the mandatory 36-hole qualifier at Carnoustie in Scotland for the Open Championship; the only way to compete in both events was to lose an early match at the PGA. Hogan is the only player to have won

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3968-405: Was no The Open Championship in 1871 and no PGA Championship in 1917 and 1918. Players who have led or been tied for the lead after each round of a major. It was rare, before the early 1960s, for the leading players from around the world to have the opportunity to compete in all four of the "modern" majors in one season, because of the different qualifying criteria used in each at the time,

4032-504: Was not recognized as a U.S. senior major until 2003, which was also the only year he played the event. Player won The Senior Open three times before 2003, when it was considered a major by the European Senior Tour but not the circuit now known as PGA Tour Champions. Men%27s major golf championships The men's major golf championships , commonly known as the major championships , and often referred to simply as

4096-409: Was the first event whose finale was televised live on U.S. television. The oldest of the majors is The Open Championship, commonly referred to as the "British Open" outside the United Kingdom. Dominated by American champions in the 1920s and 1930s, the comparative explosion in the riches available on the U.S. Tour from the 1940s onwards meant that the lengthy overseas trip needed to qualify and compete in

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