A big part of him was thankful the injury wasn't worse.
Scheffler has gone into detail about how he injured his hand making Christmas dinner, and how he practised hard early last week in cold weather in Dallas to feel confident he wasn't returning to the PGA Tour too soon.
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He makes his season debut at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the second $20 million signature event with an 80-man field, including amateur partners for the opening two rounds at Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill.
Scheffler played Cypress Point on Monday and Pebble Beach on Tuesday, without a bandage and swinging as freely as ever.
As for the fateful dinner?
Scheffler said he and his family wanted to make ravioli from scratch, so they rolled the dough but were in a rental house and didn't have the right tools to cut the pasta. He found a wine glass, and that's when the trouble began.
"I had my hand on top and it broke," he said.Â
"I've heard nothing but horror stories since this happened about wine glasses, so be careful. It broke and the stem kind of got me in the hand.Â
"I can't live in a bubble, like I've got to live my life, and accidents happen.
"It could have been a lot worse.Â
"I actually talked to somebody who did the exact same thing and the stem went straight through their hand. It's one of those deals where immediately after it happened I was mad at myself because I was like, 'Gosh, that's so stupid!'Â
"But you just don't think about it when you're in the moment."
It was one of the few mistakes Scheffler made all year.
Rory McIlroy was awed by his rival's amazing year that featured seven PGA Tour titles, his second green jacket and Olympic gold.
"I've never — this is anyone, this is Tiger, this is in the history of golf — I don't think I've ever seen a golfer play as many bogey-free rounds as Scottie," McIlroy said.Â
"He just doesn't make mistakes. He plays the right shot at the right time over and over and over again."
And what about his injury? "I think he made enough money to hire a chef. It's like, 'Why are cooking yourself?'" smiled McIlroy.
"I've got a chef. Her name's Meredith," Scheffler responded with a laugh, referring to his wife. "She's pretty cute."
Scheffler had a tiny, clear bandage over the spot where he had surgery to remove the shards of glass — upper palm, right below the middle finger, and that's as demonstrative as he got.
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