Christmas dinner injury forces golf’s World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler to miss PGA Tour season opener
Updated: 6:39 AM CST Dec 30, 2024
Scotty well played and many, many congratulations. You’ve just had an absolutely extraordinary year with an awful lot of winning. How are you feeling about what you’ve achieved here this weekend? Yeah, feeling, feeling good. Like you said, it’s been, it’s been *** fun year. I was able to get some wins and, um, really just grateful, you know, grateful for this week and, um, kind of just finishing off the season the right way and, um, being able to get *** win in the last tournament, somehow you make this game look incredibly easy and anybody that’s played, it knows that it’s not. So, what’s your secret? I don’t know. I feel like it’s pretty difficult at times. So if I figure out the secret, I’ll let you know. But, uh, right now just, uh, kind of enjoying the challenge of the game and, uh, just trying to do my best. One of the things I’ve heard about you this week is that when you’re angry, you almost play better and you can’t say that about *** lot of other golfers. How are you able to do that? Because you had some tough moments today and you followed it up with an incredible bounce back. Yeah, I think that’s something that, um, I think has really been *** huge part of why this year has been so successful is those little moments in the round where you get frustrated. I’ve, I’ve really, um, done *** good job of turning those into positives. Um, you know, you look at *** day like today, bogey seven and eight, you know, ***, with *** silly mistake, you know, with the shank and Bogey and drive *** hole and, uh, all of *** sudden, you know, the tournament’s *** lot closer now and then I bounced back really nicely there with, uh, three birdies on 9, 1011 to kind of extend the lead again. So, um, really just overall, just proud of the year, proud of the fight that we put up most of the year. And, um, you ready to go trophies this season are incredible. Seven wins on the PGA tour. That’s not to mention the gold medal in Paris at the Olympics. That is *** season of Tiger Woods proportions. And now people are comparing your game and your dominance to his and what he did. How do you feel about that? I mean, anytime you can get mentioned in the same breath as Tiger, that’s pretty special. But at the end of the day, there’s, there’s not gonna be anybody like Tiger. Uh I don’t think ever in our game in our sport. Um, you know, I’m just I’m just myself, I’m just *** kid from Texas. I love loves playing golf and I’m just trying to get the most out of myself. And, you know, this year has been really fun and, um, just gonna continue to put in the work and, uh, see where that leads us to say that this has been an eventful year I think would be an understatement. *** lot of ups some downs one day when young Bennett is old enough, he might look you in the eye and say dad, tell me about the year I was born. What are you gonna say? No idea. I’m probably gonna laugh who’s out of, you know, just not really knowing what to say. But um yeah, I think uh you know, I took some notes this year, some stuff that we want to remember. Um, you know, his first few months being alive. And um yeah, I’m, I’m excited to be final question after you won the masters. You told me that you weren’t going to let up because you knew that Bennett was on his way and you didn’t let up at all. In fact, maybe you even got better. How would you say that his arrival has changed you? I mean, it definitely has changed our home life significantly. You know, we uh spend *** lot more time uh or sorry, I guess there’s not much time to really spend doing anything else other than taking care of him and um, spending some time at home. But it’s been, it’s been *** lot of fun. It’s been *** joy to watch him grow up and it’s really incredible. Just the little things and how much joy it just brings me and MEREDITH just seeing him smile when we get home and when he wakes up in the morning, he can recognize us now and smile and it’s, uh, it’s been *** lot of fun.
Christmas dinner injury forces golf’s World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler to miss PGA Tour season opener
Updated: 6:39 AM CST Dec 30, 2024
While Christmas Day is the most wonderful time of the year for many, Scottie Scheffler will remember his 2024 festivities for different reasons.To cap off a roller coaster year for the men’s golf World No. 1, Scheffler suffered an injury while preparing his Christmas dinner and will now miss the start of the PGA Tour’s 2025 season.Video above: Scottie Scheffler caps off record season with FedEx Cup title“On Christmas Day while preparing dinner, Scottie sustained a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass,” Scheffler’s manager Blake Smith said via the PGA Tour on Friday. “Small glass fragments remained in the palm which required surgery.”Smith added that Scheffler has been told he “should be back to 100% in three to four weeks”.But following surgery, the 28-year-old will miss The Sentry tournament, the PGA Tour season-opener in Hawaii.This news is just the latest in a hectic calendar year for Scheffler – on and off the golf course.On the links, Scheffler has been on a streak that most golfers can only dream of. In April, he won the Masters before going on to win gold at this year’s Olympic Games in Paris. In total, Scheffler won seven events on the PGA Tour in 2024, including the TOUR Championship.Scheffler also won the Hero World Challenge and helped lead Team USA to its tenth straight win at the Presidents Cup.It was an equally memorable year off the course for the Olympic Gold medalist. Scheffler and his wife Meredith welcomed their first child on May 8 this year, just over a week before Scheffler played in the PGA Championship.It was during that tournament that Scheffler was arrested, charged with felony assault and released from jail before shooting a stellar 5-under par on day two of the event. All charges against the golfer were later dismissed.Scheffler will be hard-pressed to ever have a more eventful year than he had in 2024, and his 2025 season will now be getting off to a much quieter start after his injury.Scheffler expects to return to competition in mid-January at The American Express tournament at La Quinta, California, according to Smith.
To cap off a roller coaster year for the men’s golf World No. 1, Scheffler suffered an injury while preparing his Christmas dinner and will now miss the start of the PGA Tour’s 2025 season.
Video above: Scottie Scheffler caps off record season with FedEx Cup title
“On Christmas Day while preparing dinner, Scottie sustained a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass,” Scheffler’s manager Blake Smith said via the PGA Tour on Friday. “Small glass fragments remained in the palm which required surgery.”
Smith added that Scheffler has been told he “should be back to 100% in three to four weeks”.
But following surgery, the 28-year-old will miss The Sentry tournament, the PGA Tour season-opener in Hawaii.
This news is just the latest in a hectic calendar year for Scheffler – on and off the golf course.
On the links, Scheffler has been on a streak that most golfers can only dream of. In April, he won the Masters before going on to win gold at this year’s Olympic Games in Paris. In total, Scheffler won seven events on the PGA Tour in 2024, including the TOUR Championship.
Scheffler also won the Hero World Challenge and helped lead Team USA to its tenth straight win at the Presidents Cup.
It was an equally memorable year off the course for the Olympic Gold medalist. Scheffler and his wife Meredith welcomed their first child on May 8 this year, just over a week before Scheffler played in the PGA Championship.
It was during that tournament that Scheffler was arrested, charged with felony assault and released from jail before shooting a stellar 5-under par on day two of the event. All charges against the golfer were later dismissed.
Scheffler will be hard-pressed to ever have a more eventful year than he had in 2024, and his 2025 season will now be getting off to a much quieter start after his injury.
Scheffler expects to return to competition in mid-January at The American Express tournament at La Quinta, California, according to Smith.
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