Open champion Scottie Scheffler one leg from golf Grand Slam after easing to victory at Royal Portrush | Golf News
Scottie Scheffler finished the third stage of the Grand Chelem in a career with a four -stroke victory in the open 2025 championship, putting him in an elite group for winning three of the four male majors.
The 29 -year -old joins Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tiger Woods as the only players to have won three different male majors before being 30 years old, with Scheffler also the first world n ° 1 to win open since Woods defended his title in 2006 in Royal Liverpool.
Two major victories in a season – Scheffler also triumphed over the PGA championship in May – corresponds to Xander Schauffele’s efforts the previous year, now leaving him an open victory in the United States to move alongside Rory McILroy, Woods, Nicklaus, player, Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen in the Grand Slam Club of Golf.
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The complete highlights of the last day in Portrush while Scheffler obtained his fourth major title
How Scheffler got closer to the Grand Slam
Scheffler claimed his revolutionary major at 2022 Masters and won again to Augusta National two years later, when he stormed a five -stroke victory in the PGA championship in May before his impressive victory in Northern Ireland.
He has the seven top-seven in the past four of the last five United States Open, including a part of the second in 2022 and pure and simple of the year later, with Scheffler now preferred to be the next player to finish the success of the Grand Chelem.
Scheffler’s first opportunity to finish his only missing adult will be in June 2026 in Shinnecock Hills in New York, when the final round will take place the day he is 30 years old (June 21).
If he cannot finish work there, the world n ° 1 will turn to Pebble Beach Golf Links (2027), Winged Foot Golf Club (2028), Pinehurst (2029) and Merion Golf Club (2030).
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Scheffler tells Sky Sports that he felt in peace by adding to his large collection in Northern Ireland
Will Scheffler avoid “tortuous” to wait for the Grand Slam?
The pursuit of McILroy of the Grand Chelem career has turned into a long -standing saga, the Irish Northern winning the US Open championship, the open championship and the PGA four times combined between 2012 and 2014 – but then having to wait 11 years to finish the set with the victory at the 2025 Masters.
Lady Laura Davies says that after seeing what McILroy crossed, Scheffler will be impatient to win her big slam as soon as possible.
She said Sky Sports: “If what we see is something, Scottie will take him in his stride and will make the Grand Slam early. Things will change at some point and he will not be that Player but I can’t see the end of if for a very long time.
“Rory took his time [getting the Grand Slam] And was tortured by that but I don’t think Scottie wants him. He will have seen the impact he had on Rory. “”
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When Scottie Scheffler placed the green jacket on Rory McILroy while he was crowned Champion of the 2025 masters.
What does Scheffler say about the Grand Slam?
The open champion said during his post-victory press conference: “Since Rory has accomplished that this year, it is in the spotlight of everyone, just because it is a historic achievement in the golf game.
“What a great thing for Rory to be able to accomplish. Taking the four major championships is quite special. It is certainly a career success, but I do not focus too much on this kind of thing.
“At the end of this season, I will assess where my game is, things I can improve, then I go from there. I don’t think about winning tournaments. I just look at the work I have, I think of the means to improve.”
Scheffler says he doesn’t think too much about
Who else is close to the glory of the Grand Slam?
Scheffler is now one of the three active players requiring a missing adult, with the former world n ° 1 Jordan Spieth Just a victory for the PGA championship and Phil Mickelson Need an American open victory to finish the Grand Colem.
There is no guarantee that there will be an instant success of the Grand Chelem, with Spieth making nine unsuccessful attempts to raise the Wanamaker trophy – after three majors in as many years, while McILroy, as already mentioned, had an expectation of 11 years.
Age means that Scheffler and Spieth will probably have a lot of chance in the coming years, while Mickelson, 55, seems more and more likely to be below his attempt to win the US Open and finish the Grand Slam.
Phil Mickelson needs to win the United States open to surround the Grand Slam – just like Scheffler
Who else has finished one leg?
Mickelson finished six finalists at the US Open without a victory and would be the American seventh to end his career a major short film by Grand Slam Glory, with Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson and Raymond Floyd all.
Watson and Palmer failed to win the PGA and Snead championship could not win the US Open, Byron Nelson and Raymond Floyd both missing at the Open.
The six major victories of Trevino did not include a green jacket at Augusta National, while Tommy Armor, Jim Barnes and Walter Hagen all won the other three majors before the introduction of the Masters in 1934.
Scheffler making the Golf’s Grand Slam Club A magnificent seven seems inevitable but is not a certainty.
