World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler stated he is not certain whether or not he’ll play in subsequent week’s Pebble Seaside Professional-Am, the second signature occasion of the PGA Tour season, as he continues to get better from surgical procedure to take away glass fragments from his proper hand after a cooking accident.
Scheffler, chatting with reporters Monday by way of video at a media day for the Arnold Palmer Invitational, stated he was damage whereas making do-it-yourself ravioli for dinner on Christmas Day.
“Every thing went nicely with the surgical procedure,” Scheffler stated. “Physique feels fairly good, nonetheless making selections on schedule going ahead.”
Scheffler’s supervisor, Blake Smith, stated in an announcement final month that the two-time Masters champion suffered a puncture wound to the hand and can be sidelined for about three to 4 weeks.
Scheffler skipped the season-opening match, the Sentry in Kapalua, Hawaii, which was received by Hideki Matsuyama. Scheffler was additionally scheduled to compete in final week’s American Specific in La Quinta, California, the place Sepp Straka received by two strokes.
After pulling out of the American Specific, Scheffler was aiming to return for the Pebble Seaside Professional-Am, through which he tied for sixth final yr at 13 below throughout the 54 holes in a weather-shortened match, 4 strokes behind winner Wyndham Clark.
Scheffler has till Friday to enter the Pebble Seaside discipline.
“Simply need to be sure that I am getting again to regular, progressing the best approach in restoration,” Scheffler stated. “I am positively anxious to get again, excited to get again, however I am additionally not going to hurry again simply to hurry again. … However the whole lot’s on schedule, so we’ll see.”
Scheffler, the reigning PGA Tour Participant of the Yr and FedEx Cup champion, would not say Monday when he returned to hitting golf balls.
Scheffler watched quite a lot of video of his play in outdated tournaments over the previous few weeks to “jog my reminiscence, and since I wasn’t capable of play golf, I attempted to virtually prepare just a little bit at dwelling to remind my mind what I used to be feeling over sure pictures, what my fingers felt like on the membership, stuff like that.”
“It was fairly uncommon for me not to have the ability to do a lot within the gymnasium,” Scheffler stated. “I used to be nonetheless capable of get in there and do some motion stuff and among the stuff I often do with my legs, however so far as higher physique goes, I am not going to go and simply work out the left facet of my physique and are available into the season strolling like this [leaning to the right side].”
Scheffler final competed on the PGA Tour within the 2024 finale on the Tour Championship in Atlanta, the place he completed first for his seventh victory of the season. He additionally captured the Hero World Problem, an unofficial occasion within the Bahamas, in early December.
