When Rory McIlroy found that Scottie Scheffler punctured his hand whereas making Christmas dinner, he instantly expressed concern and hoped that nothing too appreciable had occurred.
As soon as McIlroy realized Scheffler would return to the PGA Tour in due time, he needed to ask a easy query.
“I believe he made sufficient cash to rent a chef,” McIlroy mentioned Tuesday.
“It’s like, why are you cooking your self?”
His joke raises a very good level. Scheffler received practically $60 million in 2024, a yr that included 9 wins general, one other victory at Augusta Nationwide, and an epic comeback to safe the Gold Medal in Paris. Scheffler’s season led many to examine it to Tiger Woods and the way he went about his enterprise all through the 2000s.
McIlroy even took it a step additional forward of this week’s AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am, the place Scheffler will make his 2025 season debut.
“I’ve by no means — that is anybody, that is Tiger, that is within the historical past of golf. I don’t assume I’ve ever seen a golfer play as many bogey-free rounds as Scottie. He simply doesn’t make errors. It’s so spectacular,” McIlroy mentioned of Scheffler.
“He performs the best shot on the proper time over and again and again. You clearly want the technical potential to have the ability to try this, however he doesn’t make errors. And once you don’t make errors on the golf course, the sport can develop into fairly simple. So tremendous spectacular. If he continues to try this, he’s going to be the dominant drive that he was final yr and the yr earlier than that.”
Since his first PGA Tour title on the 2022 WM Phoenix Open, Scheffler has received the Masters twice and The Gamers in back-to-back years, turning into the primary participant to ever achieve this at TPC Sawgrass. General, Scheffler has 13 PGA Tour wins to his title, which doesn’t embrace his triumph in Paris nor the 2 Hero World Challenges he has received.
In the meantime, since that first title in February 2022, McIlroy has six PGA Tour wins and 4 extra on the DP World Tour. The Northern Irishman has been fairly good too.
That explains why this week’s Signature Occasion has a lot hype surrounding it. Each Scheffler and McIlroy are making their first PGA Tour begin in 2025, a welcome sight for American golf followers in every single place. {The golfing} world final noticed Scheffler in December, when he and McIlroy took down Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka within the Crypto.com Showdown in Las Vegas. Eight days later, Scheffler injured his hand whereas making ravioli.
“I hoped it was going to be extra of a enjoyable story than that,” McIlroy added.
“We have been collectively in Vegas on the seventeenth of December and performed that match with Brooks and Bryson. Firstly, simply concern and hope he was okay. It seems like he’s, it’s good that he’s teeing it up this week.
“Yeah, get a chef.”
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Taking part in Via. Observe him on X @jack_milko.
