Estate Living Digital Publication Issue 6 June 2015 | Page 22

A Major
Question?

WHAT’S PUTTING

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The disappointing
performances that
have dogged Tiger
Woods continued
at the US Open at
Chambers Bay Golf
Club in Washington
where he missed the
cut for the first
time since 2006 and
so the dominance of
world golf, which was
under Woods’ sway
for so many years,
currently remains
unresolved.
McIlroy is the undisputed number 1 player
based on the current world rankings and on
his own overall performances over the last
2 years this would be a fair reflection of the
status quo. On 12.77 points he is currently

around 5 points clear of third placed Dustin
Johnson and 1.72 points clear of a fast
closing Jordan Spieth, who is in second
place and who has rocketed up the rankings
this year due in no small part to his winning
the last two Majors on offer.
For Spieth, winning the last 2 Majors is
also significant in that they were also the
first two on offer in 2015 so this reopens
the perennial and currently unanswered
question - could Jordan Spieth be the first
man to conquer the previously unassailable
heights of a Grand Slam?
To be clear in golf (as in tennis) a Grand
Slam is achieved by a player winning all of
the 4 Majors in the same calendar season,
while a career Grand Slam is for those
players who have won all 4 at any stage in
their careers. In addition golf now has a
version of the Slam peculiar to itself, which
is the Tiger Slam, after Woods held all four