LPGA star Minjee Lee will be looking to make history next week at the AIG Women’s Open. The Australian is one of two players with a chance to complete the career Grand Slam with a win at Royal Porthcawl, according to LPGA rules.
However, Lee disagrees.
Speaking on the topic before playing this week in the Women’s Scottish Open at Dundonald Links, Lee expressed her disagreement with the Tour regarding completing the ultimate achievement in professional golf.
“I think for me, like all five is the goal,” she said, according to the transcripts of her pre-tournament press conference. “So I think it’s just different for us because we have five (majors) and we don’t have four. … I just think for me, five is the goal.”
Lee won the third leg of the Career Grand Slam a few weeks ago when she captured the Women’s PGA Championship. She previously won the 2022 US Women’s Open and the 2021 Amundi Evian Championship.
In Gee Chun is the other player in the AIG Women’s Open field with three previous wins at three different majors. However, the Korean hasn’t won on the LPGA Tour since 2022 and hasn’t finished in the top 10 in 12 tournaments played this season.
In addition to Lee and Chun, two other active players are one step away from completing the career Grand Slam: Lydia Ko (needs the Women’s PGA Championship or the US Women’s Open) and Anna Nordqvist (needs the Chevron Championship or the US Women’s Open).
The Women’s Career Grand Slam Controversy
Although the LPGA Tour has recognized five major championships since 2013, its rules establish that any player who wins four different major championships in her career is considered to have completed the Career Grand Slam.
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The issue has been controversial, but it has deep historical roots. Unlike its male counterpart, women’s golf has not always had four major championships, but has fluctuated between two and five.
For this reason, attempts have been made to harmonize all historical stages by creating the Career Grand Slam and the Super Career Grand Slam. The first term applies to players who have won four different major titles, and the second to those who have won five.
Only seven players have completed the Career Grand Slam according to these terms: Pat Bradley, Juli Inkster, Annika Sörenstam, Louise Suggs, Karrie Webb, Mickey Wright and Inbee Park.
Webb is the only Super Career Grand Slammer, according to the LPGA, having won five majors during her career, although one of them (due Maurier Classic) later lost its status as a major championship and became the current CPKC Women’s Open.
There is one notable exception missing from this list. Babe Zaharias won all three tournaments recognized as major championships in her playing days multiple times and never had the opportunity to compete in a fourth tournament with that status.
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