Qualified Players for 2010 PGA Grand Slam of Golf

Qualifying from The Masters in April:

Phil Mickelson was born in San Diego, California on June 16, 1970. He is one of the leading players of his generation, having won four major championships and a total of 38 events on the PGA Tour. He has reached a career high world ranking of 2nd in multiple years. His nickname "Lefty" comes from his left-handed swing, even though he is otherwise right-handed. During his career Phil has won 45 professional events, 38 PGA Tour wins, 1 European Tour win and 6 others.

On April 11, 2010, Mickelson won the 2010 Masters Tournament with a 16-under-par performance, giving him a three stroke win over Lee Westwood in Augusta, Georgia. The win marked the third Masters victory for Mickelson and his fourth major championship overall. Critical to Mickelson's win was a dramatic run in the third round on Saturday in which Mickelson, trailing leader Westwood by five strokes as he prepared his approach shot to the 13th green, proceeded to make eagle, then to hole-out for eagle from 141 yards at the next hole, the par 4 14th, then on the next, the par 5 15th, to miss eagle from 81 yards by mere inches. After tapping in for birdie at 15, Mickelson, at -12, led Westwood, at -11, who had bogeyed hole 12 and failed to capitalize on the par 5 13th, settling for par.

Westwood did recapture the one stroke lead by round's end, but the momentum carried forward for Mickelson into round 4, where he posted a bogey-free 67 to Westwood's 71, and no other pursuer was able to keep pace to the end, though K.J. Choi and Anthony Kim made notable charges. For good measure, Mickelson birdied the final hole and memorably greeted his waiting wife, Amy, with a prolonged hug and kiss.

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Qualifying from the U.S. Open in June:

Graeme McDowell was born in Portrush, Northern Ireland on July 30, 1979. From 1998 to 2002 he attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham. While at University he was ranked Number One Collegiate Golfer in the United States and out of 12 starts won an incredible six events beating the previous best returned by Luke Donald and Tiger Woods. Before turning professional in 2002, he played a prominent role in Great Britain and Ireland’s retention of the Walker Cup in 2001 at Sea Island in Georgia.

McDowell Won his maiden European Tour title on only his fourth start in the 2002 Scandinavian Masters and confirmed that potential by finishing sixth on the Order of Merit in 2004 after capturing his second Tour victory in the Telecom Italia Open.

In 2005 he split his time between the European and PGA Tours. He was not yet a full member of the PGA Tour but his top 50 placing in the Official World Golf Rankings ensured he received invitations to play in many events in the U.S. and McDowell managed two top ten finishes on the PGA Tour including tied second place at the Bay Hill Invitational which earned him enough money to become fully exempt on the PGA Tour in 2006.

In 2006 he failed to finish in the top 150 in the PGA Tour money list and decided to return to the European Tour in 2007.

In March 2008 he played one of the shots of his career,a sublime seven iron from 179 yards to within a foot of the cup on the third extra hole, to win the inaugural Ballantine Championship in Korea in a thrilling sudden-death play-off. This was followed another win at the Barclays Scottish Open. He played in the 2008 Ryder Cup, earning 2.5 points for the European team and finished the season ranked fifth on the Order of Merit.

In June 2010, McDowell won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, becoming the first Irishman to accomplish the feat, and the first European U.S. Open winner since Tony Jacklin in 1970. He was also the first player from the United Kingdom to win a major championship since Paul Lawrie won The Open Championship in 1999, and the first Northern Irishman to win a major since Fred Daly won the 1947 Open Championship. McDowell was only the second European to win the U.S. Open since 1925. He rose to number 13 in the world rankings, a career high, and became the eighth European in the top 15.

View Graeme McDowell's profile, plus his past scores and statistics.

Qualifying from the British Open in July:

Louis Oosthuizen was born in Mossel Bay, South Africa on October 19, 1982. He has won five professional tournaments on the Sunshine Tour, the 2004 Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour event at Arabella, the 2007 Dimension Data Pro-Am and Platinum Classic and the Telkom PGA Championship twice, in 2007 and 2008. He played on the European Challenge Tour in 2003 and has been a member of the European Tour since 2004. In 2009 he finished 31st on the Race to Dubai. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings.

In March 2010, he won his first European Tour event at the Open de Andalucia de Golf. He also won the 2010 Masters Par 3 Contest.

In his first two rounds at the 2010 Open Championship, Oosthuizen shot 65 and 67 for a total of 132 to tie the record for the lowest 36-hole score in an Open Championship at St Andrews. His final score was 16 strokes under par, beating Lee Westwood by seven strokes, finishing his four rounds in 272 strokes – the second lowest in St Andrews history. He had missed the cut in seven of his previous eight major championships.

Learn more about Louis Oosthuizen's thrilling Open victory.

Qualifying from the PGA Championship in August:

Martin Kaymer was born in Düsseldorf, Germany on December 28, 1984. He turned professional in 2005 and is a member of the European Tour. In 2008 Kaymer had two major wins, the first at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship with the second in his homeland, at the BMW International Open. In 2009 he won the French Open by beating Lee Westwood in the first hole of a playoff.

In January 2010, Kaymer won the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship again, this time by one shot over Ian Poulter. After missing the cut at the Masters, Kaymer performed very well in the 2010 majors. He finished in a tie for eighth at the U.S. Open and then tied for seventh at The Open Championship after starting the final round in third. On August 15, 2010, Kaymer won the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits for his first major championship. Finishing regulation play in a two-way tie at 11 under par, he defeated Bubba Watson in a three-hole playoff. The win took him to a career high of fifth in the Official World Golf Rankings.

View Martin Kaymer's profile, plus his past scores and statistics.