The PGA Tour officially closes the book on the 2025 Masters on Thursday at the RBC Heritage, but the reverberations of Rory McIlroy’s career-Grand-Slam-clinching victory continue to reverberate across the world.
The first time someone completed what we call golf’s modern career Grand Slam was 1935, although nobody knew it then. That’s when Gene Sarazen won the Augusta National Invitation Tournament … which eventually became known as the Masters … which eventually gained status as one of the four men’s professional majors. Since then, five other Read more…
Rory McIlroy wasted no time in updating his social media handles to reflect his enormous achievement by winning the Masters to complete the career grand slam.
Since his epic back-nine collapse in 2011 that torpedoed what would have been a wire-to-wire victory, McIlroy hasn’t given himself many chances at the Masters.
To think that Alex Cejka would be in line to win the calendar year Grand Slam on the PGA Tour Champions in 2021 was all sorts of preposterous at the start of May.
Wayne Player, son of golf legend Gary Player, was arrested in Columbia County on fraud charges involving a house he rented during the week of the 2018 Masters.
The modern career Grand Slam in men’s golf is something that has only been achieved by five golfers. This week in North Carolina, Jordan Spieth can make it six.
THE US Open tennis may be down to the final four at Flushing Meadows, but it was the woman who Tiger Woods was sitting with in the stands that grabbed the biggest headlines in New York.
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