Scottie Scheffler to miss season-opening Sentry tournament after suffering hand injury
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Scheffler punctured his palm with broken glass in a Christmas Day accident, and is expected to miss several weeks as a result.
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NEW YORK – World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will miss The Sentry event in January after an accidental puncture wound to his right hand that he suffered at Christmas, the PGA Tour said on Dec 27.
The American is expected to miss several weeks due to the injury, as the 2025 season opens at the Plantation Course at Kapalua in Maui, Hawaii.
“On Christmas Day, while preparing dinner, Scottie sustained a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass,” his manager, Blake Smith, said in a statement provided by the PGA Tour.
“Small glass fragments remained in the palm, which required surgery. He has been told that he should be back to 100 per cent in three to four weeks. Unfortunately, he will have to withdraw from The Sentry. His next scheduled tournament is The American Express.”
The American Express starts on Jan 16 in La Quinta, California after the Jan 2-5 Sentry event.
It marks a disappointing start to the new year after a blockbuster 2024 for Scheffler, who maintained his world No. 1 ranking for the whole season and was voted PGA Tour Player of the Year for a third consecutive time.
The 28-year-old won his second US Masters Green Jacket, Paris Olympic gold, the PGA Tour’s season-ending Tour Championship and FedExCup play-offs and The Players Championship.
In total, he won seven tournaments on the tour this season – the first player to reach that tally since Tiger Woods in 2007. He ended the campaign with victory at the unofficial Hero World Challenge Invitational, which gave him nine wins in all competitions in 2024, including his Olympic gold.
In other news, former US Open champion Lucas Glover qualified for the 2025 Masters by finishing 2024 as world No. 50.
He was one of 10 new additions to the Masters field confirmed on Dec 23, following the final instalment of the Official World Golf Ranking of 2024.
The 45-year-old had slipped outside the top 50 recently before returning to No. 50 on Dec 23. Glover won the 2009 US Open but has never finished better than T20 at Augusta.
Joining Glover in qualifying on the same day were Tom Kim (No. 21), Nick Dunlap (No. 32), Max Greyserman (No. 35), Jason Day (No. 37), Rasmus Hojgaard (No. 39), Corey Conners (No. 41), Denny McCarthy (No. 44), Justin Rose (No. 46) and Min Woo Lee (No. 49).
The Masters is up to 85 players as at Dec 23. The field featured 89 players in 2024. REUTERS, AFP
