Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth to make the PGA Tour season debut at Pebble Beach

The PGA Tour is finally getting a star-studded field to appear next week at Pebble Beach.

World no. 1 Scottie Scheffler makes his AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am debut and returns after cutting himself with broken glass while making ravioli over the holidays. He needed the glass surgically removed, which led to his withdrawal from the Sentry and American Express tournaments this month. Scheffler, who won nine times around the world in 2024 including the Masters, will try to win PGA Tour Player of the Year for the fourth year in a row.

But it’s a one-week debut all around. Four-time major winner Rory McIlroy will also make his first PGA Tour start of the year at Pebble. World no. 3 player typically waits a few weeks to participate in the West Coast Swing after playing DP World Tour events during the winter. McIlroy won the DP World Tour Championship in November for his sixth run to the Dubai title and finished T4 last week at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic.

Three-time major winner Jordan Spieth will make his first appearance since undergoing wrist surgery after his 2024 season ended in August. The wrist injury didn’t show up until 2023, but Spieth decided to play through it. It turned into the worst season of his professional career with just three top-20s in 22 starts. He finished outside the FedEx Cup Top 50, meaning he needs sponsor exemptions to play in early signature events. AT&T, which counts Spieth as a longtime partner, gave him one for Pebble Beach.

However, Xander Schauffele is not in the field, withdrawing from the third straight event with what Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis reported as a rib injury. Schauffele had played through the issue when he finished T30 at the sentinel to open the year, but ultimately decided to rest from there.

A question mark that plays is Viktor Hovland. Playing guard with a broken toe, the Norwegian told reporters he wanted to see how he felt before committing to Pebble. He went to Dubai to play the DP World Tour event last time and missed the cut. He will look to return to form in the second signature event of the season.

Pebble Beach has eight of the OWGR Top 10 golfers in the field and 17 of the top 20, making it the first true top event of the season.

This week’s event, the Farmers Insurance Open, has a particularly poor field relative to its history on the PGA Tour, in part due to some top names not ready to begin their season and others opting to withdraw after it became clear that the tour would be coming back to Torrey Pines in two weeks for the Genesis Invitational. Hideki Matsuyama and Ludvig Åberg are the only two top 10 players in the tournament, which ends on Saturday.

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(Top photo of Rory McIlroy, Left, and Scottie Scheffler: Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)