Rory Mcilroy became the sixth golfer in history, and only the second since 1966, to complete the Grand Slam of his career with his exciting victory of Masters when he held Justin Rose in a play -off.
Mcilroy recovered from losing his two-shots advantage during the night with a double opening bogey to stretch for four, just to fly that driving on his six closing holes and be forced to a play-off.
But Mcilroy finally arose triumphant Thanks to an excellent approach to less than three feet from the pin by reproducing 18, ensuring an important first victory in 11 years, a fifth title in general and the first in Augusta National to complete the Grand Slam of his career.
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The highlights of the final round of the masts in Augusta National while Rory Mcilroy completes the Grand Slam race after beating Justin Rose in a play-off
Here, we take a look at the six players who have won the four specialties since the Era of the Masters began in 1934 …
Rory Mcilroy
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At the time Scottie Scheffler placed the green jacket in Mcilroy, since she is crowned as the 2025 Masters champion
The search for Mcilroy of the Grand Slam race has been for a long time during his great 11 -year -old drought, particularly since he lost a great opportunity to win the masters as a 21 -year -old boy in 2011.
At that time he lost an advantage of four shots in the final round and the story seemed to be repeating 14 years later. Leading for two when he arrived on the last day, Mcilroy saw that he disappeared immediately when the opening hole twice and, after having rebuilt a four -stroke advantage in the 13th, another double saw that he soon evaporated.
Ultimately, he would not deny the Irish of the north, emerging victorious in the most dramatic style possible after a tiebreaker with Rose, Mcilroy speaking of Grand Slam’s “load” finally got up of his shoulders.
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Mcilroy sits to reflect on his victory in Augusta after years of disappointment
This was his eleventh attempt to complete it. The longest of the previous five players was before ensuring the room of the largest were three attempts.
After Mcilroy’s victory, Tiger Woods, the last player to win the Grand Slam in 2000, congratulated him on social networks, writing in X: “Welcome to the club.”
Forest tiger
Woods is the youngest player who has won the four main tournaments. Together with Jack Nicklaus, he is also the only player who has won each of the four specialties on at least three different occasions.
The 15 -time main winner also remains the only player who has won the four specialties in succession, when his triumph of 2001 Masters followed the back of the victories in the other three in 2000.
Woods completed the first of two Grand Slams, 24 years old by winning the Open at St Andrews in 2000 that was part of that ‘Tigre Slam’ that culminated in the victory in the Masters of 2001.
He seemed to eclipse the 18 important victories of Nicklaus, just because the injuries wreaked havoc in the last part of his career, but for a fifth impressive success in Augusta National in 2019, his first important title for 11 years after winning the Open of US 2008 in Torrey Pines in 2008.
Jack Nicklaus
Nicklaus, who leads the way with 18 elders, won his first title in 1962 at the US Open in Oakmont through a 18-hole play-off victory over Arnold Palmer.
He completed the first of the three Grand Slams of his career at the age of 26 with the victory in 1966 at the Mirfield Open after winning the third green jacket of his career at the beginning of the year.
Nicklaus won his last title in 1986 at the Masters at the age of 46, while he was also runner -up in a specialization on 19 occasions during his brilliant career.
Ben Hogan
Hogan was 40 years old when he completed his Grand Slam by winning the only open championship he played during his greatly successful career, the 1953 edition in Carnoustie.
That same year, he also won the Masters and the United States Open, but could not achieve the Grand Slam calendar in the PGA championship that year due to a clash of dates with the open. He is the only player who won the masters, open and open titles in the United States in the same year.
He had previously won the Masters and the United States Open and had to wait six openings before ensuring the Grand Slam after claiming the third section in the Masters of 1951.
Gary player
The player, a winner of the championship greater than nine times, completed the Grand Slam with 29 years at the 1965 United States Open in Bellerive, the only time he won the event.
The South African was the only non -American in the list before the addition of Mcilroy. He claimed the third section of the Grand Slam race in 1962 in the PGA Championship, only one year after winning his first specialty in 1961. There were another 10 major openings before ensuring the fourth section.
The last victory of the players was in Augusta National in 1978, his third green jacket, when he held three players, including Tom Watson, for a blow. Watson is one of the 13 players with three legs of the race Slam to his name, since he could not win the PGA championship.
Gene
Sarazen, seven times winner of the great winner, won for the first time at the US Open of 1922 as a 20 -year -old player.
He completed the Grand Slam race with 33 years by winning the Masters in 1935, the second year of the tournament, since the inaugural edition was lost the previous year due to a “prior commitment” to play an exhibition match in South America.
Albatross of Sarazen in the 15th in the final round, the “shot heard worldwide”, in its first appearance in Augusta, remains one of the most famous shots in the history of golf and prompted him to become the first member of the Grand Slam winners of the career of the modern era.
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