One day after saying his game “sucked,” Viktor Hovland shot 65 on Thursday at Pebble Beach Golf Links to sit one stroke off the lead.

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.

Rory McIlroy, the world’s third-ranked player, rattled the flagstick from 119 yards out with a wedge, and the ball dropped into the cup on Thursday. Coverage will continue on Friday and through the weekend.

Shane Lowry had himself a day at Pebble Beach, sinking an ace and going wild afterward as he sits near the top of the leaderboard.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Scottie Scheffler felt frustrated sitting at home for two tournaments he normally plays while recovering from glass puncturing the palm of his right hand while making ravioli.

Scheffler's appearance in this tournament will also be his first since he last played in The Showdown in December 2024, where he and Rory McIlroy teamed up to beat Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau. Overall, there will be a lot of excitement to see Scheffler play this Thursday.

Twenty-seven players in the world top 30 will play for the $3.6 million winner’s check (from a $20 million purse), with the only players missing being world No. 2 Xander Schauffele ( rib injury) and LIV golfers Tyrrell Hatton and Bryson DeChambeau.

Scottie Scheffler bogeyed his first hole of the season Thursday to begin the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Nice of him to give everyone a head start. Sidelined for a month after suffering a freak hand injury at Christmas making ravioli—look it up,

Players listed only in the first category for which they are eligible (a-amateur): Scottie Scheffler ... Byeong Hun An, Russell Henley, Akshay Bhatia, Billy Horschel, Tommy Fleetwood, Sepp ...

First day of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am with Russell Henley as leader and Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler at the top of the leaderboard.