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Scottie Scheffler hurts hand on Christmas, out till mid-January

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Scottie Scheffler’s very first Christmas as a daddy did not go so efficiently.

While preparing supper for his household, Scheffler sustained a leak injury in the palm of his right-hand man, per his representative, Blake Smith. Little pieces of damaged glass hurt his hand, with a few of those pieces staying in location. He as a result needed to have surgical treatment to get rid of those little bits of glass.

“He has actually been informed that he needs to be back to 100% in 3 to 4 weeks,” Smith stated in a declaration supplied by the PGA Tour.

“Unfortunately, he will need to withdraw from The Sentry. His next arranged competition is The American Express.”

The event came 8 days after Scheffler and Rory McIlroy beat Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau in ‘The Showdown,’ a made-for-TV occasion pitting these 2 PGA Tour stars versus their LIV Golf opponents. 9 days before that, Scheffler won the Hero World Challenge in controling style. He even changed his putting grip leading up to that occasion, which produced amazing outcomes, therefore stimulating lots of intrigue and enjoyment for Scheffler’s 2025 season.

Naturally, Scheffler’s 2024 project drew contrasts to a few of the best seasons of perpetuity, significantly Tiger Woods in 2007 and Vijay Singh in 2004. He won 9 occasions in general, consisting of the Hero World Challenge and the Olympics. He likewise won The Masters, The Players, the Tour Championship, and 4 Signature Events.

Now he will have to miss out on the season-opening occasion in Maui, where he connected for 5th a year earlier. Rather, Scheffler is arranged to start his season at The American Express in the Coachella Valley. In 2015’s competition saw Nick Dunlap end up being the very first amateur to win a PGA Tour considering that 1991. Scheffler, on the other hand, connected for 17th, his third-worst outcome of the 2024 season.

Jack Milko is a golf personnel author for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Follow him on X @jack_milko

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