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Five players to have completed golf's career major Grand Slam

UNIVERSITY PLACE, WA - JUNE 16:  (L-R) Jordan Spieth of the United States and Tiger Woods of the United States walk across a green during a practice round

Jordan Spieth, 24, is bidding to become the youngest winner of golf’s career Grand Slam by winning the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow.

Spieth lifted the Claret Jug for the first time at Royal Birkdale in July, which secured him his third major title following victories in 2014 at the Masters and the US Open.

Jordan Spieth will become the youngest player to complete the career grand slam

The members of the Grand Slam winning club are a 'who's who of golf' and Spieth will add his name to distinguished company with victory at Quail Hollow.

We take a look at the five players to have won all four majors since the Masters era began in 1934, with the quintet accounting for an incredible 57 major victories in total.

Tiger Woods

Woods remains the youngest player to have ever won all four of the major tournaments. Along with Nicklaus he is also the only player to have won each of the four majors on at least three different occasions.

The 14-time major winner also remains the only player to have won all four majors in succession. Woods completed the first of two career grand slams aged 24 by winning the 2000 Open at St Andrews which formed part of the 'Tiger Slam' and culminated at the 2001 Masters.

Tiger Woods defeated compatriot Rocco Mediate in the sudden death playoff at Torrey Pines

He appeared destined to eclipse Nicklaus' 18 major wins but the last of his major titles came at Torrey Pines in 2008 when he battled past Rocco Mediate after an 18-hole Monday playoff.

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Jack Nicklaus

Nicklaus, who leads the way with 18 majors, won his first major title in 1962 at the US Open at Oakmont via an 18-hole playoff victory over Arnold Palmer.

He completed the first of three career grand slams at the age of 26 with victory in 1966 at The Open at Muirfield after winning the third Green Jacket of his career earlier in the year.

Jun 1993:  Jack Nicklaus hits a shot out of the bunker during the 1993 U.S. Senior Open at the Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver, Colorado. Mandatory Cre

Nicklaus won his last title in the 1986 at the Masters at the age of 46 and he was also runner-up in a major on 19 occasions during his glittering career.

Spieth joined Nicklaus as the only player to win three legs of the career Grand Slam before turning 24.

Ben Hogan

Hogan was 40 when he completed his slam by winning the only Open he ever played, the 1953 edition at Carnoustie, during his hugely successful career.

Ben Hogan won his fourth US Open at Oakmont in 1953, and remains the only golfer to win the Masters, US Open and Open Championship in the same year

That same year he also won the Masters and US Open, where he produced a ruthless performance to achieve a wire-to-wire victory but was unable to achieve the calendar Grand Slam at the PGA that year due to a clash of dates with The Open. He is the only player to win the Masters, US and Open titles in the same year.

He had previously won the Masters and US Open and had to wait six-starts before securing the slam after claiming the the third leg at the 1951 Masters.

Gary Player

Player, a nine-time major championship winner, completed the slam aged 29 in the 1965 US Open at Bellerive, the only time he won the event.

The South African is the only non-American on the list and claimed the third leg of the career slam in 1962 at the PGA Championship only a year after winning his first major in 1961. It was a further 10 major starts before he secured the fourth leg of the major championships.

Player's final major win was at Augusta in 1978, his third Green Jacket, when he held off three players - including Tom Watson - by one stroke. Watson is one of thirteen players with three legs of the career slam to their name.

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Gary Player is one of 5 players to complete the career grand slam of majors and he has no doubt that Jordan Spieth will do it too.

Gene Sarazen

Sarazen, a seven-time major winner, first won a major at the 1922 US Open as a 20-year-old.

He completed the slam aged 33 by winning the Masters in 1935, the second year of the tournament, having missed the inaugural edition the year before due to a "prior commitment" to play an exhibition match in South America.

Sarazen's albatross at the 15th in the final round on his first appearance at Augusta remains one of the most famous shots in golf history and propelled him to becoming the first member of the modern-era career Grand Slam winners.

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