Scottie Scheffler’s PGA Tour brethren could hardly stop him in 2024, but the start of his 2025 campaign is going to be delayed by an off-the-course accident that involved preparing Christmas dinner.

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The PGA Tour announced on Friday that Scheffler, the 2024 PGA Tour Player of the Year who won seven events in the season, has had to withdraw from next week’s season-opening The Sentry in Maui. According to a statement by Scheffler’s manager, Blake Smith, the World No. 1 suffered a puncture wound to his right hand, and small pieces of glass in his palm needed to be removed with surgery.

Smith relayed that Scheffler, 28, has been told it will take three to four weeks for the hand to heal, with Scheffler’s next start scheduled for The American Express in the California desert that will be played Jan. 16-19.

The injury is a tough break for Scheffler, who by missing the event at Kapalua is out of a chance to compete in the season’s first signature event, with the field of 2024 winners and the top 50 finishers in the FedEx Cup standings vying for a total purse of $20 million and first prize of $3.6 million. Scheffler has made only three starts in The Sentry, with top-7 finishes in the past two years.

Scheffler would have entered Kapalua with wins in his last two starts—the season-ending Tour Championship and unofficial Hero World Challenge in early December.

The full field of The Sentry was finalized on Friday evening. With Scheffler out, the top-ranked player is World No. 2 Xander Schauffele, winner of the PGA Championship and Open Championship last year. No. 3 Rory McIlroy will again skip The Sentry, with his only start in the event having come in 2019.

This article was originally published on golfdigest.com