Kickoff of the 2025 season for Scottie Scheffler will need to wait. After withdrawing from the 2025 Sentry due to a Christmas Day injury, the world's No. 1 golfer expected to return at The American Express next.

DALLAS — Scottie Scheffler withdrew from The American Express on Monday, saying his right hand has not fully recovered from minor surgery to repair a glass puncture over Christmas. Scheffler, the world's No. 1 player, injured his hand preparing Christmas dinner, forcing him to miss the start of the PGA Tour season at The Sentry in Hawaii.

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler has officially withdrawn from the second PGA Tour event of the 2025 season amid his recent injury.

Scottie Scheffler's encore to his 2024 season will have to wait, at least for a few weeks. The PGA Tour announced Friday that the world No. 1 has withdrawn from the 2025 Sentry, the league's season opener in Kapalua,

The American Express is played Jan. 16-19 in La Quinta, Calif. Scheffler won eight times on the PGA Tour last year, claimed the gold medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics and won the PGA Tour Player of the Year award a third consecutive year. He finished T6 at the 2024 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Scheffler was preparing dinner on Christmas when he sustained a “puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass,” his agent revealed late last month. That in

Scheffler’s agent Blake Smith said Scheffler’s next scheduled tournament will be The American Express from Jan. 16-19.

Still recovering from minor hand surgery after a Christmas cooking accident, Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 ranked player in men’s professional golf, has announced on social media that he will not play in The American Express PGA Tour event in La Quinta next week.

PGA Tour season debut has been pushed back as he continues to rehab his hand injury. The post Scottie Scheffler withdraws from American Express as hand-injury rehab continues appeared first on Golf.