Scottie Scheffler reveals how hand injury still affects his game

Scottie Scheffler doesn’t look like Scottie Scheffler to start the season.

He is still playing high-level golf. He has three top 11 in five games, including T3 in the Genesis Invitational. But when you enter the 7-win PGA Tour season and have been the No. 1 player in the world for 96 consecutive weeks, expectations are greater inside and outside.

Scheffler was obviously frustrated during the Players Championship game last week at TPC Sawgrass. He hangs out the first two rounds of the game, but his pursuit of three games ends.

In three of the three rounds in four rounds, Schefler lost his brushstroke on the green. This strange shock has been his subject since Schefller returned to AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The two Masters champions suffered a stab wound in their hands while making wontons on Christmas, missing the first month of the season. The hand injury has healed, but he explained in a previous press conference Wednesday that it is still affecting his game.

“It’s like restoring strength to your hands and all of these things,” Scheffler said. “It’s like there’s absolutely no pain in my hands. But taking out the full range of motion from my hands is a different story. Just because you can’t use some kind of muscle for nearly a month, like my hands, I can’t really use it.”

“It’s a while when I can’t do what I usually do. So, when you come back, it takes a little time. …My structure is structured. It will definitely improve, like I said, my swing, I feel like it really started. [at the Players]. ”

Scheffler knows that he has not met his lofty standards so far in 2025. While it’s nearly impossible to match what he did in 2024, as his hands recovered to 100% and rusted off after an unexpected layoff, he feels the trend is turning to the game.

“I think it’s frustrating whenever you’re not satisfied with your expectations,” Scheffler said. “So, with golf games, you’re probably frustrated, about 95% of the time.

“Like I said, it was a long break. It not only affects my hands, which is nearly a hundred percent, but the rest of the way the body works because I can’t get into the gym and do my usual practice and practice the way I usually practice. All of this was a sure adjustment and it was hard to get me to pay a certain price.

Scheffler will spend practice at his home in Dallas this week before playing with Rory McIlroy at the Texas Children’s Houston Open next week, which will be his final adjustment before he and his improved right hand defending his master’s title.