Winning all of golf's major tournaments in the same calendar year is known as the Grand Slam.
A Career Grand Slam is completed when a
golfer wins all of the major events during his or her career, while the
Tiger Slam is achieved when
Tiger Woods wins
five consecutive major victories, though not in the same year.
The Master's Tournament held the week of April 2nd, is an event hosted by and contested at
Augusta National Golf Club.
The
PGA Championship (also known as the
'United States PGA Championship' or 'USPGA'), hosted by the
PGA of America and played at several locales across the
United States, is held One week before Memorial Day weekend, the week concluding on the
3rd Sunday in May. It used to be held in mid-August, three weeks before
Labor Day weekend, but that changed in
2019.
The US Open is a golf tournament hosted by the United States Golf Association (USGA)
and held at several locales throughout the United States during the week of
June 3rd.
The Open Championship (sometimes known as 'the British Open' outside of the United Kingdom) is a golf tournament hosted by The R&A and contested on a rota basis on a links course at one of several designated locations in the
United Kingdom.
Bobby Jones is the only person to have ever completed a
Grand Slam. No one has ever completed a Grand Slam in the contemporary era.
Bobby Jones became the first person to win the five major golf tournaments in 1930: the Open Championship, the U.S. Open, the U.S. Amateur, and the British Amateur, the British Open.