Rory McIlroy Positive He'll Complete Career Grand Slam

The four-time Major winner needs the Masters to complete the Career Grand Slam

Rory McIlroy Positive He'll Complete Career Grand Slam
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The four-time Major winner needs the Masters to complete the Career Grand Slam

Rory McIlroy Positive He'll Complete Career Grand Slam

Rory McIlroy is a four-time Major champion but there is just one that eludes him... The Masters.

Each and every year after his 2014 Open victory, he has turned up to Augusta needing a Green Jacket to join one of the most elusive clubs in all of sport.

Just five men have completed the Career Grand Slam in the post-Masters era - Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Gene Sarazen.

Incredibly, both Nicklaus and Woods have three Career Grand Slams.

McIlroy is aiming to join that club and it's one he has been very close to entering on a few occasions.

Of course, in 2011 he had the meltdown that saw him shoot 80 after holding the 54-hole lead. He also played in the final group alongside Patrick Reed last year where he shot 74.

He held a four stroke lead heading into Sunday in 2011, but it all went wrong. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

In total, the 29-year-old five top-10s at Augusta and they've come in each of the last five years.

So, will he ever win The Masters? Or does he now have a mental block at Augusta that will agonisingly prevent him from getting over the line there?

In an interview earlier this week, he said that he is "positive" he will complete the Career Grand Slam one day.

"It's all about putting myself in a position to win on the back nine on Sunday, and that's all I'm thinking about," McIlroy said on the Golf Channel's Morning Drive.

He finished T5th last year. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

"Just giving myself another chance and see how I handle it. I'm positive it'll happen one day. If I keep practising and working hard and doing the right things, it'll go my way.

"Obviously I would love to be able to complete the Grand Slam before I'm 30 years of age, but you look at some of the greats in the game and they didn't start winning majors until their early or mid-30s. So I've got time.

"At the same time, I feel like I'm at a place where I am very comfortable with my game right now. I'm doing everything that I think I should be doing."

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Elliott Heath
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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!


Elliott is currently playing:


Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV