{"id":432877,"date":"2025-01-23T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T18:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/?p=432877"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:38:39","slug":"scottie-scheffler-hand-costing-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/scottie-scheffler-hand-costing-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler’s Hand is Costing Him Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"

A ravioli incident is keeping world no.1 Scottie Scheffler from significant earnings to start the year.<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler (hand) is Missing out on Millions<\/b><\/h2>\n

Scottie Scheffler had to have hand surgery in late December. Beyond the medical bills,\u00a0what is it costing him?\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Coming off one of the greatest seasons the PGA Tour<\/a> has ever seen, it’s important to take inventory of what he did and how comparable it is to a few of Tiger Woods’ best seasons.<\/p>\n

Scheffler won 9 events in 2024, 7 of which were Official PGA Tour events, 1 of which was the Olympics, and the last being the Hero World Challenge.\u00a0\u00a0Heading into 2025 with higher expectations than anyone in the field, Scottie will have to overcome some early adversity\u2014how will his hand injury affect his potential this season?<\/p>\n

ALSO READ: It’s Just Scottie’s World and We’re Just Living In It<\/a><\/p>\n

What happened to Scottie\u2019s Hand?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Why has Scottie sat out of tournaments this year?<\/p>\n

According to Scheffler, his hand required surgery after breaking glass while making ravioli with his family on Christmas.\u00a0It only makes sense that Scheffler, whose persona is overwhelmingly wholesome, would hurt himself cooking for his family.\u00a0No bar fight, no reckless activity, just good old-fashioned family time.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s Talk the Money Scheffler Will Miss Out On<\/b><\/h2>\n

While the Schefflers’ financials<\/a> are more than secure (flourishing, you could say), let\u2019s take a look at the bag he\u2019s missed out on by forgoing the first four tournaments of the year.<\/p>\n

Before winning the Hero World Challenge, where Scottie earned $1,000,000, he earned an average of\u00a0$3,276,176 per tournament<\/i>\u00a0he started in 2024.\u00a0Yes, this takes into account the massive purse from the Tour Championship, but still\u2026 This means each tournament Scottie sits out, he misses out on\u00a0serious<\/i>\u00a0money.<\/p>\n

With an average final position of 8th place (7.7 to be exact) in 2024, let\u2019s see how much Scottie would have raked up if he averaged similar success:<\/p>\n

The Sentry:<\/b>\u00a0$630,000<\/p>\n

SONY Open:<\/b>\u00a0$283,837<\/p>\n

American Express:<\/b>\u00a0$267,300<\/p>\n

Farmers Insurance:\u00a0<\/b>$290,675<\/p>\n

Estimated Potential Earnings:<\/i><\/b>\u00a0$1,471,812<\/i><\/p>\n

While these numbers are rough due to ties and estimates (and of course, hypothetical performance), that wouldn’t be a bad\u00a0January for most of us.<\/p>\n

Scheffler\u2019s Recovery Timeline<\/b><\/h2>\n

Scheffler seems to be mostly confident in his recovery, saying \u201coverall recovery is going well, everything is on schedule so we\u2019ll see, but feeling good.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

He has still yet to decide if he\u2019s a go for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Scottie has made clear he doesn\u2019t want to\u00a0\u201crush back just to rush back,\u201d\u00a0<\/i>but if he doesn\u2019t rush back, we\u2019ll see his missed potential earnings inch closer to $2,000,000.\u00a0We\u2019ll keep an eye on his status as he nears the deadline to commit to the event (Friday evening, January 24th).<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re cooking ravioli this week, stay safe out there. While it may not cost you $2M, a hand injury could cause you enough trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A ravioli incident is keeping world no.1 Scottie Scheffler from significant earnings to start the year. Scottie Scheffler (hand) is Missing out on Millions Scottie Scheffler had to have hand surgery in late December. Beyond the medical bills,\u00a0what is it costing him?\u00a0 Coming off one of the greatest seasons the PGA Tour has ever seen, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4860,"featured_media":432878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-432877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-pga","tag-scottie-scheffler"],"modified_by":"yobodev","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}