RORY McIlroy has weighed-in on Scottie Scheffler’s Christmas dinner hand injury.
The American world number one has missed the first four PGA Tour events of the 2025 campaign.
But the two-time major winner is set to return at this week’s ‘Signature’ AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
The nine-time 2024 winner revealed that he punctured his right hand with glass while making ravioli during the festive season before undergoing surgery to remove glass fragments from his palm.
Scheffler said he was pressing the pasta when a wine glass shattered prior to cutting his hand.
McIlroy’s first start of the American tour coincides with the return of Scheffler.
But after hearing about the injury, McIlroy had a question on Tuesday in his pre-tournament press conference at the iconic California venue.
Last year, Scheffler bagged north of $29 million in PGA Tour prize money.
And McIlroy wondered what Scheffler was doing cooking for himself before saying the Olympic gold winner has enough cash to have his own chef.
Speaking from Monterey Peninsula, he said: “I think he made enough money to hire a chef, It’s like – ‘why are you cooking yourself?”
“I was hoping it was going to be more of a fun story than that. We were together in Vegas on the 17th of December and played that match with Brooks and Bryson.
“Firstly – just concern – and hope he was OK. It sounds like he is. It’s good that he’s teeing it up this week.
“Yeah, get a chef.”
Meanwhile, Jordan Spieth is returning after wrist surgery.
The three-time major winner opted to take time out after missing last year’s FedEx Cup Playoffs to get the long-standing issue operated on.
All this week’s action is live on Sky Sports golf from Thursday afternoon.
