Scottie Scheffler claims spending parts of 2025 in recovery after winning Player of the Year

Scottie Scheffler won yet another Jack Nicklaus Award on Monday to join Tiger Woods as the only two golfers to win PGA Tour Player of the Year at least four times in a row. The ace golfer registered tour-leading six victories including the PGA Championship and the British Open, twice as many as anyone else, to take him closer to a career Grand Slam. Following the win, the 29-year-old revealed that he spent most of 2025 in recovery.

Scheffler, who became the first player since Woods in 2000 to lead the PGA Tour with the lowest scoring average in each of the four rounds, suffered a hand injury at Christmas last year. Owing to this, the four-time major winner worked the off-season to get back to 100 per cent. The golfer has now revealed that he spent the early months of the new year ‘building up strength.’

The 19-time PGA Tour winner added that he was ‘just trying to get his body in a position where he could feel healthy’ this season.

Speaking after winning his fourth consecutive PGA Tour Player of the Year title, Scottie Scheffler said, as quoted by Tee Scripts:

“I guess looking back at last year, the hand injury at Christmas, I made some really nice progress in the offseason, and it was -- this year was really just about kind of getting back to almost where I was just because throughout the year, I can’t really do the same things that I would normally do at home in an offseason. So, a lot of that was just continuing to do my recovery stuff. And I say build up strength. It wasn’t really a ton of strength. It’s not like I’m trying to gain a bunch of speed or doing anything. I’m just trying to get my body in a position where I can feel healthy for most of the year and not have to deal with little aches and pains and stuff like that. 2 Strength can be something that can be very helpful in especially major championships and stuff like that hitting out of heavy rough, that kind of stuff.”

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Scottie Scheffler on strenght training after Christmas dinner injury

For the unversed, Scottie Scheffler underwent a surgery over a freak injury he sustained while cooking Christmas dinner last year. According to his manager Blake Smith, the World No.1 sustained a puncture wound to the palm of his right hand from a broken glass. Small glass fragments remained in his palm, which enforced a surgery. The then-28-year-old was forced to withdraw from the PGA Tour season-opener, the Sentry in Hawaii.

Scheffler, who won seven PGA Tour titles in 2024, spent some weeks on the sidelines. On Monday, the golfer revealed that the time he spent resting affected his body strength. He reiterated trying to get his body ‘back to where it was in 2024’ by working out in 2025.

Scottie Scheffler added:

“I wouldn’t say I was necessarily hurting, but I think throughout the year I think everybody deals with little stuff within their body just from playing golf. When I talk about strength, it’s basically getting my body back to where it was in 2024. So that’s something that would be basically unnoticeable to anybody but myself just based upon how I feel.”

Scottie Scheffler stated he worked hard off-season to ‘maximize’ his recovery to ‘get the body in a good place.’

Edited by Vishnu Mohan