Players who have won the career Grand Slam of all four professional majors, the order they won them and how many tries it took before getting the final leg:
U.S. Open: 1922
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Tiger Woods, of the United States, cradles the Claret Jug after winning the British Open Golf championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, Sunday, July 23, 2000. (AP Photo/Adam Butler, File)
FILE - In this July 9, 1966, file photo, Jack Nicklaus, of the United States, holds the Claret Jug trophy and gold medal after winning the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield, Scotland. (AP Photo/File)
FILE - Gary Player is shown holding the huge silver cup which he won along with $26,000 and the new title of U.S. Open golf champion, June 21, 1965, at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Mo. (AP Photo/File)
FILE - In this July 10, 1953, file photo, Ben Hogan holds his trophy after winning the British Open Golf Championship at Carnoustie, Scotland. (AP Photo/Dennis Lee Royle, File)
FILE - In this April 8, 1935, file photo, golfer Gene Sarazen, center, receives a check for $1,500 from sportswriter Grantland Rice, left, for winning the Augusta National Invitation Tournament in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/File)
FILE - Jack Nicklaus as he makes a birdie putt on the 16th hole, April 13, 1975 at Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo, file)
PGA Championship: 1922
British Open: 1932
Masters: 1935 (first attempt)
PGA Championship: 1946
U.S. Open: 1948
Masters: 1951
British Open: 1953 (first attempt)
British Open: 1959
Masters: 1961
PGA Championship: 1962
U.S. Open: 1965 (third attempt)
Previous attempts at completing the Grand Slam:
1963: Tie for 8th in 1963 at Brookline
1964: Tie for 23rd at Congressional
U.S. Open: 1962
Masters: 1963
PGA Championship: 1963
British Open: 1966 (third attempt)
Previous attempts at completing the Grand Slam:
1964: Runner-up at St. Andrews
1965: Tie for 12th at Royal Birkdale
Masters: 1997
PGA Championship: 1999
U.S. Open: 2000
British Open: 2000 (first attempt)
PLAYERS WITH THREE LEGS OF THE GRAND SLAM:
Masters: 2004
PGA Championship: 2005
British Open: 2013
U.S. Open: 10 attempts:
2014: Tie for 28th at Pinehurst No. 2
2015: Tie for 64th at Chambers Bay
2016: Missed the cut at Oakmont
2017: Did not play at Erin Hills
2018: Tie for 48th at Shinnecock Hills
2019:Tie for 52nd at Pebble Beach
2020: Missed the cut at Winged Foot
2021: Tie for 62nd at Torrey Pines
2022: Missed the cut at The Country Club
2023: Missed the cut at Los Angeles Country Club
2024: Missed the cut at Pinehurst No. 2
U.S. Open: 2011
PGA Championship: 2012
British Open: 2014
Masters: Ten attempts:
2015: 4th
2016: Tie for 10th
2017: Tie for 7th
2018: Tie for 5th
2019: Tie for 21st
2020: Tie for 33rd
2021: Missed the cut
2022: Runner-up
2023: Missed the cut
2024: Tie for 22nd
Masters: 2015
U.S. Open: 2015
British Open: 2017
PGA Championship: Eight attempts:
2017: Tied for 28th at Quail Hollow
2018: Tied for 12th at Bellerive
2019: Tied for 3rd at Bethpage Black
2020: Tied for 71st at Harding Park
2021: Tied for 30th at Kiawah Island
2022: Tied for 34th at Southern Hills
2023: Tied for 29th at Oak Hill
2024: Tied for 43rd at Valhalla
INACTIVE PLAYERS WITH THREE LEGS OF THE GRAND SLAM:
U.S. Open: 1914
PGA Championship: 1921
British Open: 1922
Masters: Four attempts (Hagen was 41 when the Masters began in 1934)
PGA Championship: 1916
U.S. Open: 1921
British Open: 1925
Masters: Never played.
U.S. Open: 1927
PGA Championship: 1930
British Open: 1931
Masters: Seven attempts (best finish was tie for 8th in 1937)
Masters: 1937
US Open: 1939
PGA Championship: 1940
British Open: One attempt (The Open was not held in the six years leading to his retirement from full-time golf)
PGA Championship: 1942
British Open: 1946
Masters: 1949
U.S. Open: 22 attempts (best finish was runner-up in 1953)
Masters: 1958
U.S. Open: 1960
British Open: 1961
PGA Championship: 34 attempts (best finish was runner-up in 1964, 1968 and 1970)
U.S. Open: 1968
British Open: 1971
PGA Championship: 1974
Masters: 16 attempts (best finish was tie for 10th in 1975 and 1985)
PGA Championship: 1969
Masters: 1976
U.S. Open: 1986
British Open: Nine attempts (best finish was tie for 12th in 1992)
British Open: 1975
Masters: 1977
U.S. Open: 1982
PGA Championship: 24 attempts (best finish was 5th in 1993).
x-Played before Arnold Palmer raised the notion of a modern Grand Slam in 1960.
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Tiger Woods, of the United States, cradles the Claret Jug after winning the British Open Golf championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, Sunday, July 23, 2000. (AP Photo/Adam Butler, File)
FILE - In this July 9, 1966, file photo, Jack Nicklaus, of the United States, holds the Claret Jug trophy and gold medal after winning the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield, Scotland. (AP Photo/File)
FILE - Gary Player is shown holding the huge silver cup which he won along with $26,000 and the new title of U.S. Open golf champion, June 21, 1965, at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Mo. (AP Photo/File)
FILE - In this July 10, 1953, file photo, Ben Hogan holds his trophy after winning the British Open Golf Championship at Carnoustie, Scotland. (AP Photo/Dennis Lee Royle, File)
FILE - In this April 8, 1935, file photo, golfer Gene Sarazen, center, receives a check for $1,500 from sportswriter Grantland Rice, left, for winning the Augusta National Invitation Tournament in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/File)
FILE - Jack Nicklaus as he makes a birdie putt on the 16th hole, April 13, 1975 at Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo, file)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t show up in Turkey on Thursday for proposed direct peace talks with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was waiting for him in the capital of Ankara after challenging the Kremlin leader to face-to-face discussions on ending their 3-year-old war.
With Putin absent, the Russian delegation was in Istanbul and it wasn’t clear whether the sides would meet for their first such talks since March 2022, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor the previous month.
Zelenskyy said the Russian delegation appeared to be merely “decorative.” Speaking at the airport in Ankara, he said the next steps for talks would be decided after his upcoming meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who welcomed Zelenskyy with an honor guard at the presidential palace in Ankara.
Putin’s absence punctured hopes of a breakthrough in peace efforts that were given a push in recent months by the Trump administration and Western European leaders. It also raised the prospect of intensified international sanctions on Russia that have been threatened by the West.
“Now, after three years of immense suffering, there is finally a window of opportunity,” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said at a NATO meeting taking place separately in Turkey. “The talks ... hopefully may open a new chapter.”
The war has killed tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides and more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the U.N., and continues along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line. Russian forces are preparing a fresh military offensive, Ukrainian government and Western military analysts say.
The diplomatic maneuvering began over the weekend when European leaders met Zelenskyy in Kyiv and urged the Kremlin to agree to a full, unconditional 30-day ceasefire as a first step toward peace. Putin later responded by proposing direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul. Then came Zelenskyy's challenge to Putin to hold face-to-face talks.
After days of silence, the Kremlin finally responded Thursday, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying Putin has no plans to travel to Istanbul in the next few days.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he was not surprised that Putin was a no-show. Trump had pressed for Putin and Zelenskyy to meet but brushed off Putin’s apparent decision not to attend.
“I didn’t think it was possible for Putin to go if I’m not there,” Trump told reporters as he took part in a business roundtable with executives in Doha, Qatar, on the third day of his visit to the Middle East.
Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to Putin, is leading the Russian team that will also include three other senior officials, the Kremlin said. Putin also appointed four lower-level officials as “experts” for the talks in Istanbul.
Also absent from the talks were Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Putin’s foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, both of whom represented Russia at the talks with the U.S. in Saudi Arabia in March.
The top-level Ukrainian delegation included Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, and the head of the Ukrainian presidential office Andriy Yermak, a Ukrainian official said. Zelenskyy will sit at the negotiating table only with Putin, said presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak.
Details about whether, when and where the Ukrainian delegation might meet their Russian counterparts were unclear. Russia said the talks have been postponed until the afternoon “at the initiative of the Turkish side”
Tass said the talks were to take place in a presidential office on the Bosporus, in Istanbul.
Putin met Wednesday evening with senior government officials and members of the delegation in preparation for the talks, Peskov said. Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, General Staff chief Valery Gerasimov, and National Security Council secretary Sergei Shoigu also attended.
The Kremlin billed Thursday’s talks as a “restart” of peace negotiations that were held in Istanbul in 2022 but quickly fell apart. Moscow accused Ukraine and the West of wanting to continue fighting, while Kyiv said Russia’s demands amounted to an ultimatum rather than something both sides could agree on.
Russia's delegation then was also headed by Medinsky.
Putin's proposal came after more than three months of diplomacy kickstarted by Trump, who promised during his campaign to end the devastating war swiftly — though it's been hard to pull off. The Trump administration in recent weeks indicated that it might walk away from the peace effort if there was no tangible progress soon.
Sybiha, the Ukrainian foreign minister, met with U.S. State Secretary Marco Rubio and Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday night in the Turkish city of Antalya, which is hosting NATO foreign ministers to discuss new defense investment goals as the U.S. shifts its focus to security challenges away from Europe.
Sybiha reaffirmed Ukraine’s support for Trump’s mediation efforts and thanked the U.S. for its continued involvement, urging Moscow to “reciprocate Ukraine’s constructive steps” toward peace. "So far, it has not,” Sybiha said.
On Thursday morning, Sybiha also met with other European foreign ministers, including his French counterpart Jean-Noël Barrot, who in a post on X reiterated the call for a ceasefire and the threat of “massive sanctions” if Russia doesn't comply.
“We’re in a very difficult spot right now, and we hope that we can find the steps forward that provide for the end of this war in a negotiated way and the prevention of any war in the future," Rubio said Thursday.
Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, also in Antalya for the NATO talks, accused Moscow of not being willing to to engage in a serious peace process.
“We have one chair empty, which is the chair of Vladimir Putin. So now I guess the entire world has realized that there’s only one party not willing to engage in serious peace negotiations, and that certainly is Russia," Valtonen said.
Barrot echoed her sentiment: “In front of Ukrainians there is an empty chair, one that should have been occupied by Vladimir Putin,” he said. “Vladimir Putin is dragging his feet and in all evidence does not want to enter into these peace discussions.”
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Associated Press writers Lorne Cook in Brussels; Illia Novikov and Samya Kullab in Kyiv, Ukraine; Dasha Litvinova in Tallinn, Estonia; and Matthew Lee in Antalya, Turkey, contributed.
Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gestures to journalists as he leaves upon his arrival at Esenboga airport in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talks to journalists as he arrives at Esenboga airport in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian official plane, background, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on board lands at Esenboga airport in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on forthcoming Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on forthcoming Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
