{"id":9074,"date":"2025-01-07T04:47:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T04:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/scottie-scheffler-american-world-number-one-misses-another-pga-tour-event-with-christmas-dinner-injury\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T04:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T04:47:49","slug":"scottie-scheffler-american-world-number-one-misses-another-pga-tour-event-with-christmas-dinner-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/scottie-scheffler-american-world-number-one-misses-another-pga-tour-event-with-christmas-dinner-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler: American world number one misses another PGA Tour event with Christmas dinner injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Scottie Scheffler has withdrawn from a PGA Tour event in California next week to continue his rehabilitation from the hand injury he sustained preparing Christmas dinner.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The world number one said in a story on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/scottie.scheffler\/?hl=en\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Instagram<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> account he will skip The American Express tournament in La Quinta from 16 to 18 January to &#8220;give my injury more time to heal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scheffler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cly2x1zdwywo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">required surgery<\/a> on the palm of his right hand over the festive period after he suffered a puncture wound from broken glass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old American has already missed the opening tournament of the campaign at The Sentry last week and will also sit out this week&#8217;s Sony Open in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has now targeted the AT&amp;T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which starts on 30 January, for his comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scheffler won nine titles last year including the Masters and the gold medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cr4rg2lvlygo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottie Scheffler has withdrawn from a PGA Tour event in California next week to continue his rehabilitation from the hand injury he sustained preparing Christmas dinner. The world number one said in a story on his Instagram, external account he will skip The American Express tournament in La Quinta from 16 to 18 January to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9076,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions\/9076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}