Jhonattan Vegas

Jhonattan Luis Vegas (born 19 August 1984) is a Venezuelan professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and is a two-time Olympian.

Seeing more opportunities to improve his game and also a chance to go to school for free, he moved to the United States in 2002 with a golf instructor with whom he was familiar in Venezuela.

[7] That year he also represented Venezuela in the 2009 Omega Mission Hills World Cup with Alfredo Adrian.

Vegas won his first Nationwide Tour event in 2010 at the Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open.

[4] He finished the season 7th on the money list and earned his 2011 PGA Tour card, the first Venezuelan to do so.

In his next start, he finished in a tie for 3rd at the Farmers Insurance Open, holding a share of the lead on the back nine and moved to a then-career Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) high of 69th.

[11] In July 2012, Vegas was the runner-up finisher at the annual Telus World Skins Game to Paul Casey held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, after having won the 2011 event in Banff, Alberta.

[16] In the 2016–17 season, Vegas successfully defended his title at the 2017 RBC Canadian Open for his third PGA Tour win.

In the 2017–18 season, Vegas had just one top-10 finish, coming in a tie for 7th at the 2018 Sentry Tournament of Champions, but played well enough to get to the second round of the FedEx Cup playoffs.

[19] In 2020, a season shortened by the global COVID-19 pandemic, he had only one top-10 finish again, coming in 9th in the Puerto Rico Open.

He had surgery to remove the bone but complications from the elbow injury had caused inflammation to travel up his arm and into his shoulder.

He underwent another surgery in May 2023 to address the issue, but he was told the injuries would linger and that he needed to learn to live with pain.

[23][24] In 2024, Vegas struggled at the beginning of the year, missing more cuts than he made and not breaking into the top-20 in PGA tour events (he did finish in 14th at the Australian Open).