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

The PGA Tour will finally get a star-studded field to display next week at Pebble Beach.

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler will make his season debut at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, returning after cutting himself with broken glass while making ravioli over the holidays. He needed the glass surgically removed, and it led to him withdrawing from The Sentry and American Express tournaments this month. Scheffler, who won nine times worldwide in 2024 including the Masters, will attempt to win PGA Tour Player of the Year for the fourth consecutive year.

But it’s a week of debuts all around. Four-time major winner Rory McIlroy will also make his first PGA Tour start of the year at Pebble. The No. 3 player in the world typically waits a few weeks to join the West Coast swing after playing DP World Tour events over the winter. McIlroy won the DP World Tour Championship in November for his sixth Race to 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 first surfaced in 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’ll need 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-consecutive event with what Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis reported as a rib injury. Schauffele had been playing through the issue when he finished T30 at The Sentry to open the year but ultimately decided to rest from there.

One question mark who is playing is Viktor Hovland. The Norwegian played The Sentry with a broken toe and told reporters he’d see how he felt before committing to Pebble. He went to Dubai to play the DP World Tour event last and missed the cut. He’ll try to return to form in the second signature event of the season.

Pebble Beach will have eight of the OWGR top 10 golfers in the field and 17 of the top 20, making it the first real 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, due in part to some top names not being ready to begin their season and others choosing to withdraw after it became clear the tour would come 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 concludes Saturday.