Next year, don’t expect to see ravioli on the menu at the Scheffler household on Christmas Day.
Scottie Scheffler, the world’s top-ranked golfer, revealed the reason why he required surgery after an accident over the holidays and it’s probably something you never would’ve bet on: Homemade pasta.
Scheffler punctured his hand on broken glass while preparing the dish and required surgery to remove pieces of glass from his palm.
The two-time major winner opened up about the injury and his recovery on Monday during his media availability at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Scheffler said that he’s “still making decisions on (the) schedule going forward,” but is “feeling good” post-operation.
“Everything went well with the surgery, body feels pretty good, still making decisions on schedule going forward, but we should know in the next few days to a week whether I’ll be playing next week,” Scheffler said, according to Golfweek. “But overall, recovery is going well, everything is on schedule so we’ll see, but feeling good.”
Just days after the 28-year-old Scheffler and Rory McIlroy topped Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau in a showdown between the top golfers of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, it was revealed Scheffler “sustained a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass” during Christmas dinner preparations.
He’s aiming to return soon following extended time off, just as the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am tees off next week.
“I took a couple weeks off after the surgery to make sure everything is healing properly and made sure we’re in a good spot with my hand, so it was definitely a little bit longer and it was pretty unusual for me not to be able to do much in the gym,” Scheffler said. “I was still able to get in there and do some movement stuff with one hand, not going to go work out just the left side of my body.”
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In addition to getting some “good time to relax” at home with his wife Meredith and eight-month-old son Bennett, the reigning Masters champ geared up for the coming season by watching some of his greatest hits.
“I went back while I was sitting around kind of elevating my hand post-surgery, I was just sitting there, watched some old shots, watched some old tournaments and I reflected a little bit,” Scheffler said, according to the PGA Tour’s website. “Not much, but 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.”
He also said the injury got him out of some diaper duty with Bennett as he struggled to do the most basic activities with just one good hand.
“Sometimes you don’t realize how unco-ordinated you are until you try brushing your teeth left-handed, stuff like that,” he said.