{"id":437018,"date":"2025-10-02T02:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/?p=437018"},"modified":"2025-10-02T02:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:03:48","slug":"scottie-scheffler-up-next-for-career-grand-slam-says-gary-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/scottie-scheffler-up-next-for-career-grand-slam-says-gary-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler Up Next For Career Grand Slam Says Gary Player"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, Rory McIlroy achieved something only a few golfers have accomplished.\u00a0 He completed his career grand slam<\/a> with his victory at the Masters Tournament.\u00a0 It was his first major victory in eleven years and was a major milestone for him.\u00a0 The next question was, of course, who is next for a grand slam?\u00a0 Gary Player weighed in and believes it could very well be Scottie Scheffler.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gary Player On Scheffler<\/span><\/h2>\n

Everyone has their favorite players in their favorite sport.\u00a0 For Gary Player, he has three: Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, and Scottie Scheffler.\u00a0 For a period of time, Player even said Jordan Spieth was the greatest in the world before switching to Scheffler.\u00a0 With NBC anchor John Clark, the subject of the majors came up<\/a>. Clark then asked Player who he thinks will be the next professional to win a career Grand Slam.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo question, Scottie Scheffler,\u201d Player answered.\u00a0 \u201cI mean, Scottie Scheffler is the best player in the world today. One thing that fascinated me, I\u2019ve been talking to some coaches around the country to see what we could do about my Grandson, to get him on a team, and I was speaking to the man in Dallas the other day and he said, \u2018Scottie Scheffler was at our college, we knew what a good player he was but he was the best athlete\u2019. So that is a very significant thing.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler is an obvious candidate for this; he has never been closer to making a grand slam than he is now.\u00a0 He is firmly in the No. 1 position in the OWGR, with Rory McIlroy following behind at No. 2.\u00a0 Now, what is stopping Scheffler from getting that grand slam?<\/a>\u00a0 The answer is just one tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n

S<\/span>cheffler\u2019s Major Wins<\/span><\/h2>\n

As of 2025, Scottie Scheffler has four major wins across three tournaments.\u00a0 He won the Masters in 2022 and 2024, the PGA Championship this year, and the Open, also this year.\u00a0 The only major missing from Scheffler\u2019s lineup is the US Open.\u00a0 He came close in 2022, and of course, this year\u2019s US Open was hard on everyone.<\/a>\u00a0 Scheffler does have the skill to accomplish this; it is just a matter of when and where.\u00a0 Rory McIlroy had a head start with his major wins, getting three of them while Scheffler was still in the amateur leagues.\u00a0 It was just a matter of when for McIlroy before the Masters.<\/p>\n

Is 2026 The Year?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Thinking back on the 2025 US Open, it was tough on everyone.\u00a0 Most players struggled with the Oakmont so much that one took his anger out in the locker room.\u00a0 For 2026, the US Open will be at Shinnecock Hills, so it is a possibility for Scheffler to bring home the trophy.\u00a0 For the world’s No. 1, a major golf achievement is within reach.\u00a0 He already has four major victories under his belt, and all he needs is one more unique victory.\u00a0 The 2025 season may be over, but there are still plenty of loose ends to be tied up in 2026.\u00a0 For Gary Player at least, his question is, when will Scheffler win the US Open?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Main Photo Credit:\u00a0 \u00a9 Paul Childs-Reuters via Imagn Im<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, Rory McIlroy achieved something only a few golfers have accomplished.\u00a0 He completed his career grand slam with his victory at the Masters Tournament.\u00a0 It was his first major victory in eleven years and was a major milestone for him.\u00a0 The next question was, of course, who is next for a grand slam?\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5429,"featured_media":437019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,246,46],"tags":[358,154,71],"class_list":["post-437018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-golf-news","category-sports-history","tag-gary-player","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-us-open"],"modified_by":"Taylor Craig","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437020,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437018\/revisions\/437020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}