Scottie Scheffler was forced to withdraw from the first PGA tournament of the year after shards of glass got stuck in his hand while preparing Christmas dinner.
Scheffler was scheduled to compete in the Tour’s 2025 season opener, The Sentry, Jan. 2-5 in Hawaii.
However, following the freak accident on Christmas Day, which forced him to undergo surgery because “small shards of glass” were left in his right hand, the current world No. 1 must now spend up to a month recovering.
‘On Christmas Day, while preparing dinner, Scottie suffered a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from broken glass. “Small shards of glass were left in the palm of his hand, requiring surgery,” his manager Blake Smith said in a statement Friday.
‘They have told him he should be back to 100% in three or four weeks. Unfortunately, he will have to retire from The Sentry. Their next scheduled tournament is the American Express.
Scheffler, who was not scheduled to play in Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods’ new tech golf league on Jan. 8, is also likely to miss the Sony Open in Hawaii on Jan. 9-12.
Scottie Scheffler was forced to undergo surgery after suffering a strange Christmas accident
Scheffler was caught with a piece of glass in his hand while preparing Christmas dinner for his family.
He is expected to return in time for the American Express in La Quinta, California, January 16-19.
Scheffler’s freak injury is the final chapter in what has been a surprising 2024 for the golf star.
A month after winning his second Masters in April, he was infamously arrested while en route to Valhalla for the PGA Championship, before being charged with several charges after allegedly speeding away in his car and dragging a police officer. to the ground in the process. .
However, just under two weeks later all charges against the two-time Major winner were dropped.
Just days before the surprising events in Valhalla, Scheffler and his wife Meredith welcomed their first child, Bennett.
Meredith had been pregnant during The Masters the previous month, and Scottie promised to leave Augusta if she went into labor.
Scheffler also triumphed at the Paris Olympics, before winning the FedEx Cup and becoming the first golfer since Tiger Woods to win the Jack Niclaus Award in three consecutive seasons.
To close out the year from a golf standpoint, earlier this month Scheffler and partner Rory McIlroy banked $10 million in cryptocurrency after beating Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in an unofficial “showdown” between the cream of LIV Golf and the PGA Tour.