Scottie Scheffler reveals how hand damage still affects his game

Scottie Scheffler does not looked like Scottie Scheffler To start the season.

He is still playing high -level golf. He has three Top-11 conclusions on five starts, including a T3 in the Invitational Genesis. But when you will go out A season with seven wins PGA Tour And they have been the number 1 player in the world for 96 consecutive weeks, expectations are higher, inside and outside.

villain was significantly frustrated During last week’s player championship In the TPC saw. He was hanged in the first two rounds of the tournament, but his search for one three peat ended on Saturday.

Scheffler lost shocks to the field in the greens during three of four rounds. It has not been a characteristic slope for Scheffler since it returned to AT&T Pebble Beach pro-am. The double winner of the masters lost the first month of the season after suffering a puncture wound in his hand while Ravioli did at Christmas. Hand injury has been healed, but he explained Wednesday during a pre-master press conference that she is still affecting his game.

“Like the return of force to hand and all those things,” Scheffler said. “Like I have absolutely no pain in the hand. But getting the full range of total movement from my hand is a little by another story. Just because you are unable to use a certain muscle for nearly a month, like my hand, I was unable to really use.

“It was a very good part of the time when I was unable to do the things I normally did. So when you come back, it takes some time. … I’m very structured the way I do things here at home. So be unable to do those things, it’s definitely an adjustment. It could make me do a little, that I could have been made to do some Back?

Scheffler knows that he has not met his high standards so far in 2025. While it will be almost impossible to match what he did in 2024, he feels as if Tide is returning for his game as his hand turns to 100 percent and rust comes after a sudden rest.

“I think every time you don’t play with your expectations is disappointing,” Scheffler said. “So with the golf game, you will be disappointed maybe about 95 percent of the time. And this year, my ball hit has not been as good as it was in recent years. I felt like this was what kept me back in the last two weeks, simply not hitting the ball as hard as I did in previous years.

“As I said, it was an extended break. And not only does it affect my hand, which is approaching a hundred percent, but it affects the rest of the body because I was unable to get into the gym and do the things I normally do and practice the way I practice normally.

Scheffler will spend this week at home in Dallas by practicing before removing it along with Rory Mcilroy in Houston Open of children of the next week, which will be his latest tuning before he and his right -wing improvement defend the title of his masters.