Here are the 7 LPGA players recognized as career grand slam winners
Beth Ann Nichols- Seven women have achieved the LPGA career grand slam, winning four different majors.
- Karrie Webb is the only LPGA player to win the "super career grand slam" by winning five different majors.
- The LPGA's definition of a grand slam differs from the traditional meaning, causing some controversy.
There's been a lot of grand slam talk since Rory McIlroy's heart-pounding Masters victory. While McIlroy became the sixth man to achieve the feat, the LPGA recognizes seven players as career grand slam winners.
Louise Suggs (1957) was the first to player in LPGA history to achieve the career grand slam and Inbee Park (2015) was the most recent. Mickey Wright (962), Pat Bradley (1986), Juli Inkster (1999), Karrie Webb (2001) and Annika Sorenstam (2003) round out the impressive group.
Webb is the only player to have won the super career grand slam. That happened in 2002 when she won the Weetabix Women’s British Open. She’d previously won the McDonald’s LPGA Championship, U.S. Women’s Open, Nabisco Championship and du Maurier Classic.
Webb was 26 years old when she completed the career grand slam and 27 when she achieved the super career grand slam.
After the LPGA added a fifth major, tour officials deemed that players who have won four different majors available in their careers will have accomplished the career grand slam.
Those who have won five different majors will have won the super career grand slam.
The dictionary definition of a grand slam is a clean sweep, making the LPGA's notion that only four is required somewhat of a controversial take.
While Park is on the list, she won the Evian before it became a major, giving her four different majors.
The LPGA website has a page devoted to the subject, and its statement includes the following:
"The term grand slam was translated to golf 20 years before the LPGA was founded and the LPGA has not always had four majors. We began our major history with three. In some years we competed for two, in some years three, in some years four and now five.
"The LPGA did not add a fifth major championship to change history, alter discussion or make the accomplishment of a 'grand slam' more difficult. We added a fifth major to create an incremental opportunity for the women’s game."
Lydia Ko, the LPGA Hall of Fame's newest member, is one of four active players to have won three different majors: 2015 Evian, 2016 ANA Inspiration (now Chevron) and 2024 AIG Women’s British Open. She's still chasing the U.S. Women's Open and KPMG Women's PGA.
Ko, who turns 28 on April 24, won’t break Webb’s records as the youngest to accomplish both feats, though the former prodigy already has plenty of those kind of accolades to her credit.
Anna Nordqvist broke through with her first LPGA major victory as a rookie when she claimed the 2009 LPGA Championship (now KPMG Women's PGA). She added the Evian in 2017 and AIG Women's British Open in 2021. She'd need either the Chevron Championship or U.S. Women's Open to complete the LPGA's definition of the career grand slam.
South Korea's In Gee Chun broke through with her first LPGA major title before she even joined the tour, winning the 2015 U.S. Women's Open at Lancaster Country Club. The next year she added the Evian Championship and in 2022, she won the Women's PGA. She needs either the Chevron of the AIG Women's British Open.
Yani Tseng, a five-time major winner, is the fourth active tour player with three different major titles to her credit. She needs the U.S. Women's Open or Evian to make it four different major titles.