Golf world number one Scottie Scheffler has hand surgery after Christmas dinner accident, out of PGA Tour opener

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Golf world number one Scottie Scheffler has hand surgery after Christmas dinner accident, out of PGA Tour opener
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Scottie Scheffler's Christmas dinner preparations leave him with broken glass shards in his hand, leading to surgery which will force golf's world number one to miss the start of the new season.

Scottie Scheffler was hoping to continue his momentum into the new PGA Tour season, but hand surgery will see him miss three to four weeks. Scottie Scheffler has injured his right hand on a broken glass preparing Christmas dinner, forcing the world's top-ranked player to withdraw from the PGA Tour's season-opening event in Hawaii."Scottie sustained a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass ," Scheffler's manager, Blake Smith, said in a statement.

Last season, Scheffler won the Jack Nicklaus Award as PGA Tour player of the year in a landslide, joining Tiger Woods as the only players to win the award three straight times. Scottie Scheffler keen to move on after all charges against him dropped over arrest outside PGA Championship Scheffler was arrested for allegedly attempting to drive around traffic that was backed up due to a pedestrian fatality investigation outside the Valhalla course.

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