MajorsBrian KeoghQuail Hollow ClubScottie Scheffler, The Open, Royal PortrushComment

Scheffler Eyes Career Grand Slam Push at Royal Portrush

MajorsBrian KeoghQuail Hollow ClubScottie Scheffler, The Open, Royal PortrushComment
Scheffler Eyes Career Grand Slam Push at Royal Portrush
Scottie Scheffler poses with the Wanamaker trophy after winning the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club on Sunday, May 18, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Darren Carroll/PGA of America)

Scottie Scheffler poses with the Wanamaker trophy after winning the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club on Sunday, May 18, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Darren Carroll/PGA of America)

The last time that the Open Championship was played at Royal Portrush in 2019, Scottie Scheffler was a 22-year-old rookie just making his way into professional golf.

He had not long celebrated his first-ever pro win – that came at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Evans Scholars Invitational in May 2019. And yet, here we are six years later, with Scheffler on the cusp of completing the career grand slam before he’s even reached the age of 30.

So can the Texan tame Royal Portrush and take the next step towards the ultimate golfing milestone?

Pennsylvania Poised

Scheffler, having already won the Masters and the PGA Championship, will first get a chance to prevail in the US Open for the first time.

Those placing a golf bet on the action at Oakmont Country Club will be offered odds as short as +300 on a Scheffler victory – such is his dominance of world golf right now.

The US Open odds 2025 also offer up Rory McIlroy (+700), the reigning Masters champion, and the big-hitting Bryson DeChambeau (+750) as market protagonists, but it’s Scheffler who is currently golf’s man for all occasions.

The 28-year-old has won three of his last four outings on the PGA TOUR, including a major – that 2025 PGA Championship triumph – and a money-spinning Signature Event at the Memorial Tournament.

Scheffler has twice finished inside the top-five of a US Open, although there’s a sense that the tougher the conditions are, the lower his win probability becomes – the last tournament played at Oakmont saw just four players finish under par.

And then it’s on to the Dunluce Course at Royal Portrush in July. Shane Lowry reached -15 when winning here in 2019 – albeit, he was the only player to finish on double-digits under par, but it’s clear that this venue is one of the easiest Open Championship layouts to conquer in benign conditions.

If the high winds stay away and the course doesn’t play super-fast and dry, Scheffler may just be eyeing his first feel of the Claret Jug, judging by his recent form.

Grand Slam Golf

Golf’s career grand slam requires an individual to win all four of the sport’s majors: The Masters, PGA Championship, US Open, and Open Championship.

Only six men have ever completed the feat in more than a century of trying, with Ireland’s own Rory McIlroy the latest to join the club when he prevailed at Augusta National earlier this year.

Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods are the other members of this exclusive group, which goes some way to identifying the greatest players ever to pick up a club.

It seems highly doubtful that anybody will ever top Tiger’s career grand slam – he’d won all four majors before turning 25, while Nicklaus completed his own version in the space of just five years between 1962 and 1966.

If Scheffler wins the US Open and Open Championship in 2025, he will have completed the grand slam in a span of three years and three months… confirming his status as one of the best ever while still being in the peak years of his career.