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.

Louise Suggs

Louise Suggs

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.

Mickey Wright

Just five years after Louise Suggs completed her Career Grand Slam, Mickey Wright followed in her American counterpart’s footsteps, finishing off her Grand Slam at the 1962 Women’s Western Open by beating Mary Lena Faulk in a playoff on May 13 of that year to earn her ninth major victory at just 27 years old. Wright collected 82 total wins on the LPGA Tour throughout her career, the second-most of all time behind Kathy Whitworth, and 13 of those titles were majors, also the second-most in LPGA Tour history, two less than record-holder Patty Berg’s 15. She took home four LPGA Championships, four U.S. Women’s Opens, three Women’s Western Opens and two Titleholders Championships. She won four consecutive majors across the 1961 and 1962 seasons and is the only player in LPGA Tour history to hold all four major championship titles at once. Wright won her last major in 1966 at the Women’s Western Open.

Pat Bradley

It took just over 24 years for a third LPGA Tour member to complete the Career Grand Slam, and this time, it was 35-year-old Massachusetts native Pat Bradley who accomplished the feat. She won the 1986 LPGA Championship at Jack Nicklaus Sports Center in Mason, Ohio by one stroke over Patty Sheehan to become just the third player ever to win four different majors in her career. Of the 31 titles she earned on Tour, six were major championships, and along with her LPGA Championship victory in 1986, Bradley also won the 1980 du Maurier Classic, the 1981 U.S. Women’s Open, the1985 du Maurier Classic, the 1986 Nabisco Dinah Shore and the 1986 du Maurier Classic.

Juli Inkster

Thirteen years passed before Juli Inkster joined the Career Grand Slam club at the 1999 LPGA Championship. She captured her fifth career major victory at DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, Del., winning by four strokes over Swede Liselotte Neumann, and it was the second major title that Inkster won that year, as she had just picked up her first U.S. Women’s Open win a few weeks prior at Old Waverly Golf Club in Mississippi over Sherri Turner. Inkster recorded seven major victories in total throughout her career, and in addition to her two wins in 1999, the California native also won the 1984 Nabisco Dinah Shore, the 1984 du Maurier Classic, the 1989 Nabisco Dinah Shore, the 2000 McDonald’s LPGA Championship and the 2002 U.S. Women’s Open. Inkster earned 31 total LPGA Tour wins, the last of which came in 2006 at the Safeway International.

Karrie Webb

Australian Karrie Webb became the first international player to win a Career Grand Slam when she took home the 2001 McDonald’s LPGA Championship at DuPont Country Club in Delaware. She beat Laura Diaz en route to earning her fifth career major title that season, having previously won the 1999 du Maurier Classic, the 2000 Nabisco Championship, the 2000 U.S. Women’s Open and the 2001 U.S. Women’s Open on the LPGA Tour.

Karrie Webb

Webb then became the first and only player to capture what is known as the Super Career Grand Slam the next year, winning her sixth major title at the 2002 Weetabix Women’s British Open at Turnberry. She defeated Michelle Ellis and Paula Marti by two strokes in Scotland to collect her fifth different major win in a championship that was delineated as such throughout her career. Webb’s seventh and final major victory came at the 2006 Kraft Nabisco Championship, tying her for the sixth-most major wins of all time alongside her fellow Grand Slammers Juli Inkster and Inbee Park, and she racked up a total of 41 victories during her playing days, the last of which she earned at the JTBC Founders Cup in 2014.

Annika Sorenstam

Ten of Swede Annika Sorenstam’s 72 LPGA Tour victories were major championships, and she completed the Career Grand Slam in 2003 at the Weetabix Women’s British Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes, becoming the first and only European to ever do so. Along with that 2003 victory, Sorenstam won the 1995 U.S. Women’s Open, the 1996 U.S. Women’s Open, the 2001 Nabisco Championship, the 2002 Kraft Nabisco Championship, the 2003 McDonald’s LPGA Championship, the 2004 McDonald’s LPGA Championship, the 2005 Kraft Nabisco Championship, the 2005 McDonald’s LPGA Championship and the 2006 U.S. Women’s Open. Sorenstam successfully defended her title at a major championship three times, the most of any player in LPGA Tour history, and is tied with Babe Zaharias with the fourth-most major victories of all time.

Inbee Park

Republic of Korea native Inbee Park is the most recent athlete to have completed the Career Grand Slam, doing so in 2015 with her win at the Ricoh Women’s British Open. She defeated Jin Young Ko by three strokes that year at Turnberry in Scotland to collect her seventh major title, which is the last major championship the former Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings No. 1 has won on the LPGA Tour. Park’s other major victories were recorded at the 2008 U.S. Women’s Open, the 2013 Kraft Nabisco Championship, the 2013 Wegmans LPGA Championship, the 2013 U.S. Women’s Open, the 2014 Wegmans LPGA Championship and the 2015 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. She has racked up a total of 21 LPGA Tour titles throughout her career, most recently winning the Kia Classic back in 2021.

Meet the LPGA Tour’s Seven Career Grand Slammers – And One Super Career Grand Slammer

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