The Open: Who can transfer three-quarters in the direction of profession Grand Slam with victory at Royal Liverpool? | Golf Information

Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Jon Rahm can transfer one main away from finishing the Grand Slam with victory in The 151st Open at Royal Liverpool; watch the ultimate males’s main of the 12 months from Thursday July 20 stay on Sky Sports activities Golf

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The ready is nearly over for the ultimate males’s main of the 12 months, with round the clock protection from The 151st Open at Royal Liverpool stay from July 20-23 on Sky Sports activities Golf

There might be no new entry into golf’s profession Grand Slam membership in 2023 though three gamers can transfer three-quarters of their means in the direction of becoming a member of that illustrious group with victory this week.

Tiger Woods is the latest participant to finish the Grand Slam, profitable The Open at St Andrews in 2000 as a part of the “Tiger Slam”, with Jack Nicklaus, Gary Participant, Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen additionally profitable all 4 majors of their careers.

Three lively gamers at present require only one lacking main, with Rory McIlroy’s newest try to finish the Grand Slam at The Masters leading to a missed reduce and persevering with to go away him with out a main victory since 2014.

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Highlights from Rory McIlroy’s disappointing second spherical at The Masters, the place he posted seven bogeys in a five-over 77

Jordan Spieth fell brief in his bid on the PGA Championship, ending the week in tied twenty ninth, whereas Phil Mickelson nonetheless requires the US Open – an occasion he has completed runner-up at six occasions – after failing to contend final month at Los Angeles Nation Membership.

All three gamers could have one other alternative to win their lacking main in 2024, by which level there could possibly be one other participant who is only one victory away from becoming a member of the Grand Slam membership.

World No 2 Jon Rahm can turn into the primary participant since Woods in 2005 to win The Masters and The Open in the identical calendar 12 months, having completed tied-third at Royal St George’s a month after his maiden main title on the US Open in 2021.

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Highlights from the ultimate spherical of the 2023 Masters at Augusta Nationwide

“Not many individuals have been capable of do it, so to have the ability to end it out and do a Grand Slam could be completely superb,” Rahm stated after his four-shot win at The Masters. “It is a lengthy street forward to have the ability to accomplish that.”

Dustin Johnson has 5 high 10s in his prolonged Open Championship profession, together with each the final two years, with a win for both the American or Rahm that means they might then full the Grand Slam in subsequent 12 months’s PGA Championship at Valhalla.

Reigning PGA champion Brooks Koepka is the opposite participant already midway in the direction of the Grand Slam, with the five-time main winner seeking to bounce again on final 12 months’s missed reduce at St Andrews and contend for a second main of the season.

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Have a look again at one of the best moments from Brooks Koepka’s 5 main victories – three within the PGA Championship and two within the US Open

“The entire objective is to win the Grand Slam, proper,” Koepka stated at The Masters. “I really feel like all of the greats have gained right here [Augusta] and so they have all gained The Opens as nicely. I assume it is yet another field for me to tick to really really feel like I’ve carried out what I ought to have completed on this sport.”

A Koepka win at Royal Liverpool would transfer him degree with Mickelson on six majors and see him be a part of McIlroy in requiring simply The Masters to finish the Grand Slam, having squandered a final-round result in Rahm at Augusta Nationwide earlier within the 12 months.

Can McIlroy finish main drought?

Woods stated at The Masters earlier this 12 months it was “only a matter of time” earlier than McIlroy would full the Grand Slam, though the Northern Irishman’s preliminary focus is to finish his nine-year anticipate a fifth main title.

McIlroy didn’t convert a share of the final-round lead at The Open final summer season, settling for third place, whereas the previous world No 1 then following a tied-seventh end on the PGA Championship in Could by ending runner-up to Wyndham Clark on the US Open.

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Highlights of the ultimate spherical from the 123rd US Open, the place Wyndham Clark held off Rory McIlroy to assert his first main win

The 34-year-old went into the ultimate spherical at Los Angeles Nation Membership a shot off the lead and made an opening-hole birdie, solely to make 16 pars and a bogey over the rest of his spherical to card a level-par 70 and accept second spot.

“I am getting nearer,” McIlroy stated after his ultimate spherical on the US Open. “The extra I preserve placing myself in these positions, ultimately it’ll occur for me. The final actual two possibilities I’ve had at majors I really feel like have been fairly related performances, like St Andrews final 12 months after which right here [Los Angeles].

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Rory McIlroy totally believes he’ll win one other main regardless of one other near-miss on the US Open

“Once I do lastly win this subsequent main, it’ll be actually, actually candy. I’d undergo 100 Sundays like this to get my arms on one other main championship.”

McIlroy will now hope a return to a well-known searching floor will see him carry the Claret Jug for a second time, with The Open again in Hoylake for the primary time since when Royal Liverpool final hosted the occasion in 2014.

The 151st Open takes place from July 20-23, with unique protection all through event week stay on Sky Sports activities. Stay protection of the opening spherical begins on Thursday July 20 from 6.30am on Sky Sports activities Golf.