Has Anyone Won All 4 Majors In One Year? [Not Easy!] - EEE Golf
Winning a major championship is one of the biggest accomplishments in golf. But has any player ever won all four majors in the men's game?
eeegolf.comDirect answer: Yes, a few golfers have won all four modern major championships in a calendar year, a feat known as the Grand Slam. The only players to achieve this in the modern era are Bobby Jones (1930), and Tiger Woods (both the 2000 and 2001 campaigns are cited as completing three majors in rapid succession with a Masters in those years; in some summaries Woods is credited with holding all four majors at once in 2000–2001). For the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open (The Open), and PGA Championship as currently defined, Bobby Jones accomplished the modern Grand Slam in 1930; Tiger Woods came closest in the modern era by winning four majors over 2000–2001, effectively holding all four simultaneously for a period, though there is debate about whether the calendar-year Grand Slam was completed in a single calendar year depending on how the majors are counted.
What counts as the Grand Slam has shifted over time because the lineup of majors has changed. Specifically:
- Bobby Jones won four majors in 1930, before The Masters and the modern Four Majors concept were in their current form. This is often retroactively labeled as a Grand Slam for historical context.[6][7]
- In the modern sense, no player has unequivocally won all four majors in a single calendar year; Tiger Woods did win four majors over a span that included 2000 and 2001 and briefly held all four titles at once, which some sources describe as achieving a “box of majors” or near-Grand Slam but not necessarily a strict calendar-year Grand Slam.[3][8]
Key takeaways:
- The year-by-year Grand Slam (all four majors in one calendar year) is extremely rare and, in the modern era, not clearly completed by any player in a single calendar year.
- Bobby Jones is the historic precursor, achieving the four major titles available in his time in 1930.
- Tiger Woods came closest in the modern era by collecting four majors across 2000–2001 and briefly holding all four titles simultaneously.
If you’d like, I can pull up the most up-to-date summaries from reliable golf history sources and lay out a compact timeline showing who won which majors in each year, with citations.