Rory mcilroy He achieved this week to register his name on the most selected world list of planet golf: that of Players who won Augusta Masters, the British Open, the US Open and the PGA ChampionshipThe four grand slam of this sport.
This is the Six (Bobby Jones and I won tomorrow and the professionals and amateurs at the end of the 20s and the beginning of 30, the great four hours) and the first to do this ever since In a distant 2000 Tiger Woods It began to re -write the history of modality. The names in the mcilroy companions show the size of a work only within the selected.
Gene SarazenChampion of seven ‘majors’, the list opened in the early twentieth century. The Double Champion of the US Open (1922 and 1932), Triple Champion of PGA (1922, 1923 and 1933) and British (1932) champion, will have to wait until the Masters of 1935 to end his hope.
They stopped for two decades until it repeated. It’s another American, the Nine -time Grand Slam Champion Ben Hogan. The PGA champion in 1946 and 1948, a 1953 stratospheric was marked to win his second masters (1951 and 1953), his fourth US Open (1948, 1950, 1951 and 1953) and his desired first British (1953).
A decade later, South Africa Gary Player It became the first non -american to complete the circle. With nine Grand Slam, he won three British (1959, 1968 and 1974), three Masters (1961, 1974 and 1978) and two PGA (1962 and 1972), but it was the US tomorrow of 1965 allowing him to close four best.
Just then, in the past, Jack Nicklaus He appeared to build the legend that recognized him as the best common, with eighteen ‘majors’ in his showcases. The Gran Slam Deed closed the British of 1966, which later won in 1970 and in 1978. He won the US Open (in 1962 and added 1967, 1972 and 1980), the Masters (1963 and 1965 and added 1966, 1972, 1975 and 1986) 1971, 1973 and 1980).
The last to add his name to the list is the fifteen times Grand Slam Champion Tiger Woods.
Now bind to this selected group Rory mcilroy. The US Open Champion in 2011, PGA in 2012 and 2014 and British in 2014, is pursuing the closure of the circle eleven years. The 2025 Masters converts him forever into a selected golf.
Source: La Verdad
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