CARACAS: Venezuelan golfers hailed compatriot Jhonattan Vegas’ PGA Tour win as a big advance for their sport in the baseball-obsessed nation and proof socialist leader Hugo Chavez’s disparagement of golf was misplaced.
The 26-year-old Vegas, who learned golf thanks to his father’s job as a caddie, won a first PGA title in only his fifth start after a playoff for the Bob Hope Classic on Sunday.
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