Pro golfer Jhonattan Vegas weighs in after Trump orders ‘large scale strike’ in Venezuela

President Donald Trump ordered a "large standard strike" against Venezuela to seizure its person and transport him to the United States, wherever his medication plans to enactment him connected trial.

The U.S. Army’s Delta Force, an elite peculiar operations unit, led the cognition to seizure Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a U.S. authoritative briefed connected the substance told Fox News. The cognition has drawn reactions from those successful the governmental arena arsenic good arsenic sports figures with adjacent ties to Venezuela.

Jhonattan Vegas, a Venezuelan golfer who competes connected the PGA Tour, appeared to respond to the events.

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Jhonattan Vegas of Venezuela looks connected from the 18th greenish astatine the 2025 PGA Championship 2025 Wentworth Golf Club Sept. 11, 2025, successful Virginia Water, England. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

"Long unrecorded Venezuela, DAMN IT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL," Vegas wrote connected X successful a station translated from Spanish.

Vegas, 41, is ranked No. 85 successful the world. He had a historical tally astatine the 2025 PGA Championship, becoming the archetypal Venezuelan to instrumentality the pb astatine 1 of the 4 large tournaments. 

Vegas finished 8-under par aft the archetypal 36 holes, placing him atop the leaderboard astatine Quail Hollow Club successful Charlotte, North Carolina, successful May. He yet finished the large successful a necktie for 5th place.

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Vegas archetypal took an involvement successful play erstwhile helium was conscionable 2 years old.

"As a kid, I would deed thing that I could find. Rocks, broomstick, everything," helium told reporters aft the opening circular of past year's PGA Championship. "I would drawback thing that I could plaything and I would bash it. Feel similar I was a bully jock arsenic a young kid, truthful that’s benignant of however things started.

Jhonattan Vegas lines up a putt connected the 16th spread during the archetypal circular of the BMW Championship Aug. 14, 2025, successful Owings Mills, Md. (Rafael Suanes/Imagn Images)

"We grew up adjacent a nine-hole play people owned by the lipid companies, and we had entree to a people and, positive the emotion of my dada for the game, enactment it together, and we started playing."

Once helium reached his teens, Vegas near Venezuela and relocated to the U.S. He learned English and aboriginal took his play talents to the Texas Longhorns.

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Vegas further cemented his sanction successful past erstwhile helium won the Bob Hope Classic successful 2011, making him the archetypal Venezuelan to triumph a PGA Tour-sanctioned event. He besides represented his autochthonal state doubly astatine the Olympics.

On Saturday, Trump described Maduro arsenic being "highly guarded" successful a statesmanlike palace that was "a heavy fortified subject fortress successful the bosom of Caracas." Maduro had astir made it to a harmless country wrong it, Trump told reporters, though "he was incapable to adjacent it."

President Donald Trump speaks astatine his Mar-a-Lago nine Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, successful Palm Beach, Fla.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

In an interrogation earlier Saturday greeting connected "Fox & Friends Weekend," Trump said that American forces were equipped with "massive blowtorches," which they would person utilized to chopped done alloy walls had Maduro locked himself successful the room.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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