NEW: Trump Family Rocked After Sudden Hospitalization

A member of President Donald Trump’s family is undergoing an unconventional treatment after a painful setback threatened to derail a highly anticipated athletic debut — and initially raised fears that another surgery could be ahead.

The athlete is Trump’s 19-year-old granddaughter, Kai Trump, who reinjured her surgically repaired wrist while making her college golf debut for the University of Miami at South Carolina’s Golfweek Fall Challenge.

The frightening moment came when Kai struck the ground near a cart path and immediately felt a shock shoot through her arm.

“Let’s just say there must have been some cart path underneath that ground because it was very hard,” Kai explained.

She managed to keep playing, but several holes later, things took a more alarming turn.

“Then on the tenth hole, I hit my driver, and I felt like I tore it again,” she said.

That sensation was particularly concerning because Kai had already undergone surgery on the same wrist earlier this year.

The procedure addressed damage to her triangular fibrocartilage complex as well as stabilizing tissues surrounding the extensor carpi ulnaris tendon.

Kai had been working toward returning pain-free in time to begin her freshman season with the Miami Hurricanes.

Suddenly, during her college debut, she feared she had damaged the repaired area all over again.

Medical testing after the tournament, however, delivered some encouraging news.

Kai said she had not completely torn the repaired area.

Instead, she described the new damage as a “little sliver” involving cartilage and ligaments inside her wrist.

Most importantly, she said doctors determined that another surgical procedure was not necessary.

Kai instead turned to stem cell injections administered by pain-management specialist Dr. Jeffrey Weigers.

In a video documenting her recovery, Kai identified the treatment she received as Dezawa MuseCells as she works toward getting back onto the golf course.

The treatment comes during what has already been a challenging transition into collegiate competition.

Despite the wrist pain, Kai completed all three rounds of the Golfweek Fall Challenge at Caledonia Golf and Fish Club.

She finished tied for 102nd in the 120-player field.

But the final leaderboard did not reflect the physical setback she was dealing with after aggravating a wrist that had already required surgery.

Kai committed to the University of Miami in 2024 after establishing herself as a competitive junior golfer.

Miami coach Janice Olivencia previously described her as a developing player who would bring considerable energy and excitement to the Hurricanes program.

Her arrival at Miami generated substantial attention because of her family, large social-media following and aspirations in competitive golf.

Kai is the eldest child of Donald Trump Jr. and Vanessa Trump and President Trump’s eldest grandchild.

She stepped onto the national political stage during the 2024 Republican National Convention, where she delivered a speech about her grandfather.

But golf has increasingly become a major part of her public profile.

Kai won club championships at Trump International Palm Beach and developed a competitive handicap before beginning her college career.

She also made her LPGA Tour debut last November, becoming the youngest player in that tournament’s field.

Her move into college athletics has brought challenges away from the course as well.

Kai documented leaving her home in Jupiter, Florida, and acknowledged the emotional difficulty of saying goodbye to her family and friends as she began college.

“I’m not a very emotional person at all, so this is like really weird for me to cry,” she said.

Despite those emotions, Kai expressed excitement about beginning the next stage of her life as a student-athlete.

Now the wrist injury has added another obstacle just as that chapter begins.

Kai has publicly documented the setback, including both the frightening moment when she believed she had torn the wrist again and the subsequent medical findings indicating she could avoid another operation.

That could prove significant for her freshman season.

The Hurricanes are scheduled to compete in the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational beginning Oct. 16 in North Carolina.

That gives Kai several weeks to undergo treatment, monitor the injury and determine whether her wrist can withstand a return to competitive golf.

Whether she can participate will ultimately depend on her recovery and whether she can swing without triggering additional pain.

For now, avoiding another surgery represents an encouraging development after a debut that suddenly threatened to turn into a much longer setback.

Kai’s famous last name ensures that her performances will receive more attention than those of most freshman golfers.

But after surgery, months of rehabilitation and now another painful injury to the same wrist, her immediate challenge is one familiar to athletes at every level: getting healthy enough to compete again.