Scottie Scheffler’s debut in 2025 is still uncertain.
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Scottie Scheffler’s 2025 PGA Tour season debut will have to wait.
The world No. 1 announced on Instagram on Monday that he will retire from American Express next week to continue rehabbing a gruesome hand injury he suffered while preparing Christmas dinner.
“After consulting with my medical team, I have made the decision to withdraw from next week’s American Express Tour to give my injury more time to heal,” Scheffler wrote. “I’m still hopeful to start my 2025 season at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-am.”
Scheffler suffered a puncture wound in his right hand while preparing Christmas dinner. The injury forced him to withdraw from the season-opening Sentry, which was won by Hideki Matsuyama over the weekend with a historic result.
Scheffler’s manager, Blake Smith, said last month that Scheffler’s expected recovery time was three to four weeks. This lined up with The American Express to be played January 16-19 in La Quinta, California.
“On Christmas Day while preparing dinner, Scottie suffered a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass,” Smith said in the Dec. 27 statement. “Small shards of glass remained in the palm requiring surgery. He has been told he should be back to 100% in three to four weeks. Unfortunately, he will have to pull out of The Sentry. His next scheduled tour is American Express.”
Scheffler is coming off a season in which he won seven times on the PGA Tour and nine times worldwide, including a Masters victory and an Olympic gold medal.
The 28-year-old also joined Tiger Woods as the only player to win the PGA Tour Player of the Year award in three consecutive seasons and finished second to Woods in the PGA Tour’s Ultimate Players Impact Program.
Scheffler now hopes to make his season debut at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Jan. 30-Feb. 2. Scheffler finished tied for sixth in the event last season. It will be the second signature event of the 2025 schedule.
