Xander Schauffele's Dad confident his son will be next to complete career grand slam

Fresh off landing his second major title in two months, Xander Schauffele is now being tipped by his father Stefan to become the next player to complete the career grand slam. 

Schauffele, 30, won his first major title with a one-shot victory over Bryson DeChambeau at the US PGA in May.

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The newly-promoted World No.2 then etched his name on the famous Claret Jug with a two-shot victory over Justin Rose and Billy Horschel at The 152nd Open over the weekend. 

With half of the career grand slam already achieved, Schauffele's father Stefan Schauffele thinks his son will quickly go on to pick up The Masters and US Open sooner rather than later.

Scroll below for Stefan's comments, a Twitter poll and our own verdict on the subject...

Only five golfers - Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods - have won all four of golf's modern majors at any time during their careers, an achievement that is referred to as a career grand slam.

Scottie Scheffler may have two major titles to his name like Schauffele, but the runaway World No.1 is only at 25% of his way to the career grand slam with both of his wins coming at The Masters in the last three years. 

Bryson DeChambeau is another player at 25% on his way to the career grand slam with two US Open titles to his name. 

Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka are at 50% of the way to career grand slam like Schauffele.

Rahm has The Masters and US Open tucked away, while Koepka has won the US PGA three times and the US Open twice. 

Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth are the closest players in line to next achieve the career grand slam with both players at 75%. 

McIlroy just needs to win The Masters, while Spieth needs the US PGA. 

Now pushed back to World No.3 following Schauffele's latest major win, McIlroy will now be entering an 11th season since his last major title at the 2014 US PGA. 

Phil Mickelson also just needs the US Open to complete the career grand slam, but now at the age of 54, there is a strong chance Lefty will soon be calling it quits on the major stage. 

This year marked the first time since 1982 that Americans clean sweeped the majors - Scheffler (The Masters), Schauffele (US PGA, The Open), DeChambeau (US Open).

On the subject of whether Schauffele could become the sixth player to complete the career grand slam, his father Stefan is now hugely confident his son will get the job done before the likes of McIlroy and Scheffler. 

Stefan told The Telegraph: "It’s up to you guys to take a look at the statistics and see who has the greatest potential of being the next career grand-slammer because I think he’s the one who has the game. Yes, I’m being subjective but I think, objectively, you will arrive at the same conclusion."

Schauffele's caddie Austin Kaiser is equally bullish that his boss will soon complete the career grand slam.

"After Xander won the [US] PGA, I looked at him and said, ‘Let’s go for the grand slam’," Austin told The Telegraph.

"Let’s do it. Why not? He’s right there. He’s played well in Augusta. He’s played well in the US Open. I definitely could see him achieving that. No problem."

Xander, Stefan and Austin certainly look to have been enjoying The Open celebrations: 

We asked our X / Twitter followers who they thought would be the next player to complete the career grand slam out of Schauffele, Scheffler, McIlroy and Rahm.

Scheffler came out on top. 

Here are the results: 

GolfMagic Editor Verdict

I think Xander Schauffele's father is correct and his son will become the next player to achieve the career grand slam. 

For me, Xander just has the most complete game of anyone in world golf right now. 

Yes, Scheffler is a runaway World No.1 and rightly so with six victories on the PGA Tour this season including a second Masters title in the last three years. 

However, I do still question his putting, whereas I have no worries where Schauffele is concerned on the greens. 

Scheffler is marginally the better ball striker from tee to green, but his putting once again let him down in a major. 

He holed nothing just about all weekend. 

Schauffele to me just looks so at ease with the putter, and always has done. 

I also think he's a very long and accurate driver of the ball, he has terrific consistency with his long and short irons, and he also possesses a fantastic short game too - something we saw a lot over the weekend at Royal Troon. 

Schauffele has certainly had his critics in recent times, with many believing he choked on Sundays.

But he's quickly shut those people up and now proving he's a player for the major stage having racked up two of the last three majors.

The floodgates are going to open for Schauffele now he's turning into a serial winner, and I expect him to push Scheffler very close to the FedEx Cup title next month. 

It's just a shame we have to wait eight months for the next major at The Masters in April '25. 

I fully expect Schauffele, Scheffler, Rahm and McIlroy to all complete the career grand slam before the end of their careers.

But I think Schauffele gets it done first. 

As for the Player of the Year vote. 

Now that's a tough one.

I think I would narrowly side with your poll vote, which you can check it out below.

The winner of the FedEx Cup next month will likely get it though.