Viktor Hovland has become the latest PGA Tour star to suffer a bizarre injury over Christmas.
And it’s left Collin Morikawa wanting to cover himself in bubble wrap ahead of the 2025 season opener.
News broke on Friday night that world no.1 Scottie Scheffler would miss The Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii after a Christmas dinner accident.
Scheffler underwent minor surgery on his right hand after cutting himself on broken glass while preparing the festive feast on December 25.
Moments after the American’s manager released a statement, Hovland revealed his own freak injury suffered over the holiday period.
The Norwegian posted an X-ray which appeared to show a broken pinky toe, alongside the caption: “Bed frame 1-0 Me.”
Reacting to the latest golfing casualty, two-time major winner Morikawa commented: “I’m wrapping myself in some bubble wrap on the way to Hawaii.”
Unlike Scheffler, Hovland remains in the field for The Sentry, which begins on January 2 and marks the beginning of the golf season.
Scheffler is expecting to be fit for The American Express on January 16.
The Sentry features every player who won on the PGA Tour in 2024, along with those who finished in the top 50 of the FedEx Cup standings.
Hovland, who won the FedEx Cup in 2023, suffered a dramatic fall from grace this year.
The 27-year-old was winless on the PGA Tour, with one runner-up finish and two top-tens, slipping from third in the world rankings to eighth.
Hovland made the unusual decision to sack his swing coach and rip up his swing at the end of 2023 despite his roaring success.
The Ryder Cup star has since reunited with Joe Mayo after months of dismal results – and admitted earlier this year he made a mistake.
Hovland told The Times: “It sounds stupid to say, but I just felt like I had a little too much control of it.
“It was too dependent, for example, on my short game being really good or timing. I felt I had a more repeatable pattern a couple of years prior.
“I’m a very curious guy. For my own sake, I wanted to know what’s on the other side.”
He added: “The worst feeling is when you’re in a bad place and you don’t know how to get out of it.
“I was trying a bunch of stuff that just wasn’t working and it’s just miserable when you work so hard and don’t see the results.
“Then it’s the thoughts of, ‘Why do I even try?’ You sort of enter a bad frame of mind where it’s just like, ‘What’s the point of playing?’
“I can enter a tournament and scrape by but that’s not why I play the game. I want to play at the level I know I can.
“If I am just here to try and make the cut, I’d rather be doing something else.”