Scottie Scheffler injures hand while preparing Christmas dinner, undergoes surgery

Scottie Scheffler volition miss the opening 2 weeks of 2025 aft suffering a manus wounded portion preparing Christmas dinner.

The satellite fig 1 is said to person chopped his manus connected breached solid earlier this week, an wounded that has since required insignificant surgery.

Scheffler had been owed to enactment successful The Sentry tourney adjacent week, but has present been forced to retreat from that event.

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What has Scheffler's manager had to say?

In a statement, arsenic quoted by the authoritative PGA Tour website, manager Blake Smith said: "On Christmas Day portion preparing dinner, Scottie sustained a puncture coiled to the thenar of his close manus from a breached glass.

"Small solid fragments remained successful the thenar which required surgery. He has been told that helium should beryllium backmost to 100% successful 3 to 4 weeks.

"Unfortunately, helium volition person to retreat from The Sentry. His adjacent scheduled tourney is The American Express."

That aforementioned tourney is owed to instrumentality spot betwixt January 16 and 19, it yet to beryllium determined whether Scheffler volition retrieve successful time.

Scheffler had been hoping to commencement his twelvemonth successful benignant having collected 8 trophies during 2024, including the Masters and Players Championship.

Although Scheffler volition person a ample magnitude of ranking points to support crossed the adjacent 12 months, helium lone played doubly during the opening 5 weeks of 2023.

As good arsenic finishing seventh astatine The Sentry, helium was 11th astatine The American Express 2 weeks later, fundamentally meaning that his stranglehold of the satellite fig 1 presumption volition not beryllium weakened successful his absence.

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