Scottie Scheffler is finally making his 2025 PGA Tour debut at this week’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am after an incident on Christmas left him with a puncture wound in his right hand that forced him into surgery. But why was he in the kitchen at all? That’s the point Rory McIlroy raised during his pre-tournament press conference on Tuesday.
“I think he made enough money to hire a chef,” McIlroy said a bit tongue-in-cheek. “It’s like, why are you cooking yourself?”
The Northern Irishman was with Scheffler just days before it happened when the two Tour stars took on LIV Golf’s Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau in The Showdown in Las Vegas — which they won, handily.
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“Firstly, just concern and hope he was OK,” he said. “It sounds like he is, it’s good that he’s teeing it up this week.
“Yeah, get a chef.”
A few hours later it was Scheffler’s turn to address the media conglomerate at Pebble Beach, and he had a pretty good answer as to why he’s yet to employ a chef.
“I’ve got a chef, her name’s Meredith. She’s pretty cute.”
McIlroy is on the tee sheet with Ludvig Aberg for the first two rounds and will tee off at 11:48 a.m. ET on Thursday. As for Scheffler, he’ll play alongside Brian Harman and go off at 12:01 p.m. ET.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Rory McIlroy jokes Scottie Scheffler needs a chef after injury
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