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The Career Grand Slam is one of the most notable feats an athlete can achieve during their career as an LPGA Tour member, particularly as only seven women have ever done it in the 75-year history of the organization.
The LPGA considers a player who wins four different major championships that were deemed as such during their career as completing the Career Grand Slam, with a player who wins five different major tournaments in their career earning the Super Career Grand Slam. Similarly, a player who wins four straight majors in a single season is considered to have earned a Grand Slam, and a player who wins all five majors in one year would complete the Super Grand Slam.
A handful of currently active athletes are within one major championships of joining the Career Grand Slam club, most notably Lydia Ko, who needs a victory at either the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship or the U.S. Women’s Open to finish her Slam; In Gee Chun, who must win either The Chevron Championship or the AIG Women’s Open to be the second Korean Career Grand Slammer; and Anna Nordqvist, who would have to win The Chevron Championship or the U.S. Women’s Open to become the second European to capture a Career Grand Slam.
Meet the seven women who have won the Career Grand Slam and one woman who has earned the Super Career Grand Slam.
LPGA Founder Louise Suggs was the first LPGA Tour member to capture a Career Grand Slam, doing so on June 9, 1957, at 33 years old by winning the LPGA Championship at Churchill Valley Country Club in Pittsburgh, Pa. after defeating Wiffi Smith by three shots. Suggs won her first major title at the Titleholders Championship in 1946 before the LPGA was founded and took home her last career major at the 1959 Titleholders Championship at Augusta Country Club. In total, Suggs won 11 majors, four of which were Titleholders Championships, four of which were Women’s Western Opens, two of which were U.S. Women’s Opens and one of which was that LPGA Championship in 1957.