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Tiger - on the way to golfing history? (Allsport)

4/1 SLAM IN SIGHT

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Tiger Woods is into as short as 4/1 to complete the Grand Slam after adding this year's US Open to his Masters title.

It is next stop Muirfield for Tiger as he tries to achieve golf's first-ever Grand Slam of all four majors in one year.

A three-stroke victory in the US Open in New York put him halfway to every player's ultimate dream.

And William Hill offer just 4/1 that he completes the feat.

Woods, who was a pre-season 50/1 for the Grand Slam, is now Hill's 11/8 favourite to make it three-out-of-three at Muirfield.

Ladbrokes - 150/1 at the start of the year - still aren't quite so sure, quoting 6/1 about him winning all four and 2/1 against him taking the British Open.

Betabet offer a top-priced 8/1.

But Tiger's dominance and the small matter of football's World Cup is hitting betting turnover on golf.

"Tiger was friendless in the market before the tournament began on Thursday, but by the time he had completed half his round he was odds on," explained Ladbrokes spokesman Matt Finnigan.

"The combination of the World Cup and his dominance during the tournament, produced very little turnover during rounds three and four," he added.

Jack Nicklaus was the last man to stand in Woods' position 30 years ago, but when he too came to Muirfield for the Open as the Masters and US Open champion the third leg just eluded him. Even with a closing 66 Lee Trevino beat him by one.

Sunday's US Open was Woods' seventh win in the last 11 major championships and his eighth in all.

Just four legends - Nicklaus (18), Walter Hagen (11) and Ben Hogan and Gary Player with nine - are ahead of him now in the all-time list.

At the Masters last year Woods completed the first clean sweep of the majors. But because it was spread across two seasons it became known as the "Tiger Slam" rather than the Grand Slam.

Not in Woods' mind, though. He had all four trophies at the same time and for him that was good enough.

"I've done it (all four) before and hopefully I can do it again," he said.

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