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Amateur Championships were considered
to be Majors and that there was no modern
Grand Slam as we know. Jones himself would
create the 4th of these events in the form of
the Masters Tournament but this would not
be until 1934.

The next rung on the ladder will be the Open
Championship in Scotland in July where
Spieth will have his work cut out to maintain
One has to go back a long way into the his run as this is McIlroy’s ‘back yard’ and
game’s history to find the only comparable Louis Oosthuizen, who came in 2nd and only
displays of dominance in a single season of a shot behind at Chambers Bay, is a past
Majors which would be the 3 annexed in Open Champion at the Old Course.
1953 by Ben Hogan who won the Masters,
US Open and Open Championship and did However regardless of the outcome at
not enter the PGA Championship largely St Andrews, Spieth is already in exalted
because the two events had been scheduled company having become only the 6th player
in history to win the US Open and Masters in
only a day apart.
the same season and one of only 18 to have
In 1930 Bobby Jones completed what won any 2 Majors in the same season.
has become known as the Impregnable
Quadrilateral by annexing the US Open, John Cockayne
Open Championship, US Amateur and The Business of Golf
British Amateur Championships. It is Estate Living Golf Editor
worth remembering that in those days the

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