Jordan Spieth Can Complete Career Grand Slam With Win at PGA Championship
Jordan Spieth has the opportunity to accomplish something this week that just five golfers have done in the history of the sport: The Grand Slam.
The modern grand slam is defined as winning all four Major Championships; Masters, U.S. Open, The Open (British Open), and the PGA Championship. The only golfers to achieve this feat are Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Gene Sarazen.
Golf historians may also throw Bobby Jones’ name into the mix as he accomplished what’s dubbed the “original” grand slam, which was winning the U.S. Amateur, the US Open, The Open and The Amateur.
The PGA Tourney will be played his week. I hope Jordan Spieth wins. If he does he will have won the Grand Slam of Golf. He's already won the Masters, the US Open and the British Open
— George L. Duncan (@GeorgeLDuncan) May 17, 2021
Jordan Spieth enters this week’s PGA Championship having already won the Masters, The Open and the US Open. A win at Kiawah this week will cement his name among the all-time great golfers and will also be an achievement that some of the best golfers in the history of the game have yet to, or never managed to, accomplish.
Arnold Palmer, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson and Tom Watson all top the list of world class golfers who fell just one Major Championship short of the Grand Slam. Rory McIlroy is a green jacket away from achieving the feat while Phil Mickelson, who is seemingly cursed at the US Open, is seeing his window of opportunity begin to close.
Think this is the year that Jordan Spieth will complete the grand slam? You can bet on it happening as WynnBET has his odds to win this weekend set at +1700. Rory McIlroy is set as the favorite at +1200.
Spieth will no doubt be one of the more popular golfers for people to bet on this week as a recent resurgence, which was capped off with a win at the Valero Texas Open in April, is giving bettors hope that he can complete the career grand slam at just 27 years old.
The former Texas Longhorn enters the event 32nd on the PGA Tour in scoring average this season but it’d be tough to argue that any golfer has been in better form over the past few months. Spieth has finished in the top 15 in seven out of his last eight starts including five finishes in the top five.