Scottie Scheffler Provides Health Update Ahead of Tour Championship After Revealing Illness

Scottie Scheffler is getting back to full strength ahead of the 2026 Tour Championship this weekend at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

After battling hand, foot and mouth disease during last week's BMW Championship and finishing tied for 12th, Scheffler sounds confident that he's on the mend.

"Good. I'd say I'm at like 95 percent," Scheffler said Wednesday, per ESPN's Mark Schlabach . "The only thing [is] maybe just still a couple of sores in my throat. But other than that, I feel really good."

According to the Mayo Clinic , hand, foot and mouth disease is a common viral illness that typically affects infant children, though it can be passed to people of any age. Symptoms can include a low-grade fever, sore throat, a rash on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet and painful lesions on the tongue, gums and inside the cheeks.

Before his disappointing finish at the BMW Championship, Scheffler kicked off the FedEx Cup Playoffs by winning the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis by eight strokes. He revealed that he experienced pain while gripping his clubs at the beginning of the week before heading to St. Louis for the BMW Championship, where he finished 10 strokes behind winner Wyndham Clark.

Before he chases his second career win at the Tour Championship, Scheffler spoke about how family life can affect his play, as he and his wife, Meredith, have traveled with their two young sons, two-year-old Bennett and newborn Remy, to several tournaments.

"I think it's always a balancing act," Scheffler said. "I'm at a point in my life where, yeah, it's really hard having two young kids and taking care of them. I think anyone with young kids can relate; you're just tired literally all the time."

Despite the hardships of parenthood and his recent illness, Scheffler made it clear that he wouldn't change a thing.

"I think you want to enjoy the season because eventually my kids aren't going to be able to be out here," Scheffler said. "[Brian] Harman is somebody I talk a lot about this with. He's like, 'Man, I'm jealous of you guys who get to travel every week with your kids.' You take the good with the bad. Part of it is hard, but part of it is you've got to also enjoy it because it doesn't last."