World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler took a 53-day unplanned absence from professional golf when he had a kitchen mishap that caused surgery to remove glass fragments from his right hand. On Thursday morning in his return, Scheffler looked a little rusty, making a bogey on the par 4, 10 th hole, when he couldn’t get up and down from a greenside bunker.

Scheffler went from the hill right of the 10th fairway at Spyglass to a front bunker, blasted out some 20 feet and missed his par putt. That was his only bogey, though he was 1 over until lacing the fairway metal to 30 feet for two-putt birdie on the par-5 14th, just as McIlroy on the hole next to him plucked his ball from the cup.

Scottie Scheffler will make his 2025 PGA Tour debut at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am next week, after missing the first four events with a hand injury.