Like other major professional sports leagues, the PGA Tour is deeply entwined with legal sports betting. Leaderboards now have betting odds, and live lines and in-round parlays provided by the tournament's sportsbook sponsor are frequently mentioned by TV commentators.

However, other golfers think that if the Tour wants to keep accepting sports betting, it should be more open about the health of its players.

These worries increased after world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler disclosed after the FedExCup Playoffs Event that he struggled with hand, foot, and mouth disease all week during this past weekend's BMW Championship.

"I got sick Monday night. It hit me pretty good all week; I’m not 100% now. I got hand, foot, mouth. Blisters on the hands, throat, and feet. It was pretty painful to grip the club,” Scheffler told reporters.

“If I were smarter, maybe I would have pulled out, but I was playing so good I felt like if I could knock it out quickly and get through the first couple rounds I would have a chance,” Scheffler continued.

According to Scheffler, he didn't give his playing partners a handshake.

“I’m starting to heal up. My throat is still bugging me, but my hands feel normal. I actually caught myself almost shaking hands with Cam [Young] on 18,” Scheffler said.

Do Medical Records Need to Be Disclosed?

When he tees it up, Scheffler is nearly always the favorite.

DraftKings put Scheffler, who had just won the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first leg of the FedExCup Playoffs, at +305 to win outright ahead of the BMW.

In the 70-man field, such odds have an implied chance of 24.69%. Rory McIlroy had the next-shortest odds, at +1300 (implied probability of 7.14%).

Oddsmakers keep Scheffler's lines short because he commands a lot of action. However, some bettors could have looked elsewhere if they had been aware that Scheffler was suffering with hand, foot, and mouth disease, a highly contagious viral infection that frequently results in fever, sore throats, and excruciating blisters and sores.

“The PGA Tour has to implement some sort of injury report. If they’re going to be in bed with betting, having it be completely unknown that the betting favorite was dealing with an illness isn’t acceptable,” commented Iain MacMillan, senior editor at Sports Illustrated.