sir michael bonallack has won all four golf majors in one year.
who has won all four golf majors in one year?
sir michael bonallack
golf instead considers the grand slam, a sweep of the four men's major golf championships deemed to be the most difficult contests in professional golf, to be analogous to perfection. the only time the grand slam has been swept in any given year was 1930, when bobby jones won all four majors (at the time, the (british) amateur championship and u.s. amateur were still considered majors); since 1934, when the masters was added as a major, no player has won all four in one year. tiger woods is the only professional golfer to win four consecutive professional majors; he did so over two years in 2000 and 2001. the record for most consecutive wins in professional golf is 11, set byron nelson in 1945; nelson would win 18 tournaments overall that year, a year when wartime manpower shortages were still limiting the number and quality of professional golfers for nelson to compete against.
perfect season
nicklaus won the u.s. amateur in 1959 and 1961 and finished second in the 1960 u.s. open, two shots behind arnold palmer. nicklaus turned professional at age 21 toward the end of 1961. he earned his first professional victory at the 1962 u.s. open, defeating palmer by three shots in a next-day 18-hole playoff and launching a rivalry between golf superstars. in 1966, nicklaus became the first player to win the masters tournament two years running; he also won the open championship, becoming at age 26 the youngest player to win all four golf majors. he won another open championship in 1970.
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