PGA Tour winner runs Boston Marathon while rehabbing shoulder injury

Despite 355 events over his career, Scott Stallings’ most recent PGA Tour showing was over a year ago in the 2024 Texas Children's Houston Open. He ultimately WD’d with a left shoulder injury, and since then has had multiple surgeries to his shoulder and elbow due to a torn labrum.

The three-time PGA Tour winner has finally begun hitting golf balls again, but his recent focus has been on a different athletic achievement: Running the Boston Marathon.

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Stallings was one of 30,000-plus runners to take on the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton, MA, all the way to Boylston Street in Boston, MA, and used his time off from golf to train and raise money for Golf Fights Cancer, a non-profit founded by PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan.

"April is a pretty inconvenient time for a PGA Tour player,” Stallings told WCVB in Boston. “I wanted to try to take advantage of the opportunity coming back from injury to raise awareness for an awesome cause and do something I've always wanted to do.

“I started right around Thanksgiving. I had never really run with any plan, just within golf. It's time, repetition, and attention to detail. Running is the same thing. Attitude and effort are two things you can control every single day. If you take that into whatever you come in contact with, the attitude, and the effort you put forward. There's not a whole lot that can go wrong if that's the way you embrace every and all situation, good, bad and indifferent."

This is Stallings’ first marathon, and he finished the race with a time of 4:10:19, which is around a 9:32/mile pace. More importantly, he’s already raised over $20k to fight cancer.

It’s not like Stallings was starting from scratch, often “running angry” after his worst rounds, but Monahan made sure to give him advice: “‘Just don’t be a headline.” Wise words from someone who’s had his share of headlines.

Now that the Boston Marathon is behind him, Stallings’ attention is back on returning to the PGA Tour for the FedEx Cup Fall. It’s been a long time, but you can’t say that Stallings has been sitting at home on the couch. If you can run the Boston Marathon, walking 18 should be a breeze.

If you want to support Stallings and the Golf Fights Cancer team, donate here!