Others to win Getting the first two majors of the year were Craig Wood ( 1941 ) , Ben Hogan ( 1951 , 1953 ) , Arnold Palmer ( 1960 ) , and Jack Nicklaus ( 1972 ) .

Jack Nicklaus , age 20 and the reigning U.S .

Subsequent wire-to-wire winners were Jack Nicklaus in 1972 , Raymond Floyd in 1976 , and Jordan Spieth in 2015 .

Woods was the first in thirty years to win Getting the first two legs ( Masters , U.S. Open ) , last done by Jack Nicklaus in 1972 .

Nicklaus ' grand slam bid Hold also ended Process_end at Muirfield , runner-up by one stroke to Lee Trevino in 1972 .

The four passengers on board were PGA golfer Payne Stewart ; his agents , Van Ardan and Robert Fraley ; and Bruce Borland , a golf architect with the Jack Nicklaus golf course design company .

It was the third of his six major titles and his second consecutive ; he won the U.S. Open Openness less than a month earlier in a playoff Competition over Jack Nicklaus .

Trevino 's win Earnings_and_losses , therefore , assured that Americans won all four major championships Competition in 1971 ( Charles Coody won the Masters Tournament and Nicklaus captured Conquering the PGA ) .

At age 41 , he became Becoming the oldest player to win Earnings_and_losses two majors in a year : Jack Nicklaus ( 1980 ) , Ben Hogan ( 1953 ) , and Craig Wood ( 1941 ) were all age forty .

With the victory Earnings_and_losses , Woods became Becoming the youngest ever to win Getting all four major championships , passing Body_movement Jack Nicklaus by two years .

Charles Coody won his only major championship , two strokes ahead of runners-up Johnny Miller and Jack Nicklaus .

Coody , co-leader with Nicklaus entering the round , rebounded from his bogey at 14 with two consecutive birdies and parred the final two holes while Miller , 23 , bogeyed two of the last three holes .

The 1971 PGA Championship was played Participation in Florida in February , and was won by Nicklaus .