Scottie Scheffler has revealed he was making Christmas ravioli when he cut his hand and needed surgery to remove glass from his palm.
The world No 1 has missed the opening three events of the 2025 PGA Tour season after he punctured his right palm on Christmas Day, with fragments of glass becoming stuck inside his hand.
Scheffler was helping to prepare homemade ravioli but soon required an operation. He took two full weeks off to recover.
The 28-year-old learned that he is ‘useless’ changing son Bennett’s diapers one-handed and joked: ‘Sometimes you don’t realize how uncoordinated you are until you have to brush your teeth left-handed.’
But Scheffler, who dominated his rivals in 2024, hinted that he could return to action next week, at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am next in California.
‘I’m feeling good, everything went well with the surgery,’ Scheffler said on Monday.
‘My body feels pretty good. I’m still making decisions on schedule going forward. I should know (in the) next few days to a week whether I’ll be playing next week. Everything’s on schedule.’
Scottie Scheffler has revealed he was making Christmas ravioli when he cut his hand
The world No 1 has missed the opening few events of the 2025 season after suffering the injury
He added: ‘I just want to make sure I’m getting back to normal, progressing the right way in recovery… I’m definitely anxious and excited to get back. But I’m also not going to rush back just to rush back.’
It is very rare for Scheffler to completely stop playing. Even when he takes a break from practice during fall, the world No 1 said he still tees it up with friends back home in Texas.
‘It was pretty unusual for me not to be able to do much in the gym,’ Scheffler said. ‘I was just sitting there, watched some old shots, watched some old tournaments, and I reflected a little bit.
He explained: ‘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.’
