Scottie Scheffler is pulling back the curtain on a bizarre Christmas Day injury that prolonged his start to the 2025 season.
During his availability Monday as part of the Arnold Palmer Invitational media day, the two-time major champion shared he was making homemade ravioli with his family when the cooking adventure went sideways with broken glass, resulting in surgery on his right hand.
Although he’s “still making decisions on [the] schedule going forward,” Scheffler is “feeling good” post-op.
“Everything went well with the surgery, body feels pretty good, still making decisions on schedule going forward but we should know in the next few days, to a week, whether I’ll be playing next week but overall recovery is going well, everything is on schedule so we’ll see, but feeling good,” Scheffler said, according to Golfweek.
Days after Scheffler, 28, and Rory McIlroy topped LIV Golf’s Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau in a Las Vegas Showdown, it was revealed the world’s No. 1 golfer “sustained a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass” during Christmas dinner preparations.
Scheffler missed The Sentry in Hawaii, which took place the first weekend of January, and The American Express tournament that began on Jan. 16.
He’s aiming to return soon following extended time off, just as the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am tees off next week.
“I took a couple weeks off after the surgery to make sure everything is healing properly and made sure we’re in a good spot with my hand, so it was definitely a little bit longer and it was pretty unusual for me not to be able to do much in the gym … I was still able to get in there and do some movement stuff with one hand, not going to go work out just the left side of my body,” Scheffler said, per Golfweek.
In addition to getting some “good time to relax” at home, where he resides with wife Meredith and their 8-month-old son Bennett, the reigning Masters champion looked to the past in preparation for the year ahead.
“I went back while I was sitting around kind of elevating my hand post-surgery, I was just sitting there, watched some old shots, watched some old tournaments, and I reflected a little bit. Not much, but I just really wanted to jog my memory and since I wasn’t able to play golf, I tried to almost train a little bit at home to remind my brain what I was feeling over certain shots, what my hands felt like on the club, stuff like that, so I wasn’t totally checking out from golf,” Scheffler said, according to the PGA Tour’s website.
Scheffler is looking to replicate a sensational 2024 season that included seven PGA Tour victories and his second Masters win in three years.
