{"id":517328,"date":"2026-03-04T03:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517328\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T03:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:57:09","slug":"eight-liv-golf-players-stranded-in-the-middle-east-amid-us-iran-war-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517328\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight LIV Golf players stranded in the Middle East amid US\u2013Iran war \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo: Jan Kruger]<\/p>\n<p>Eight LIV Golf players are currently stranded in the Middle East and may not reach this week\u2019s event in Hong Kong, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a title=\"View Article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/to-the-victor-go-the-spoils-what-its-like-to-juggle-playing-liv-golf-and-the-dp-world-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What it\u2019s like to juggle playing LIV Golf and the DP World Tour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A host of the Saudi-backed circuit\u2019s membership was practising in Dubai ahead of LIV\u2019s Asian tour stop, yet have been unable to leave due to airport closures following strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran last weekend. Dubai \u2013 along with sites in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman \u2013 have been bombed in retaliatory strikes by Iran. The social media account Flushing It first reported that Lee Westwood, Laurie Canter, Thomas Detry, Sam Horsfield, Anirban Lahiri, Tom McKibbin, Adrian Meronk and Caleb Surratt are the players in question.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">8 players on the LIV Golf League are still in the Middle East and yet to make it to Hong Kong for the 3rd event of the season after flights were cancelled and airports closed due to the ongoing war.<\/p>\n<p>Those players are:<\/p>\n<p>Lee Westwood<br \/>Laurie Canter<br \/>Sam Horsfield<br \/>Adrian Meronk\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nVlC7oyLwp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nVlC7oyLwp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Flushing It (@flushingitgolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flushingitgolf\/status\/2028840531346747645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was terrifying,\u201d Surratt told Golf Channel\u2019s Brentley Romaine on Tuesday via text about being in the region when the bombing occurred. \u201cBut since then, it\u2019s been OK. It was bad Sunday and Monday here with missile interceptions, but all day today was fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surratt, a former Walker Cup player, was attempting to find a way to Oman in hopes of catching a flight to Hong Kong from there. Flushing It also reported the other players have flights booked, although it is unknown if they will make it to Hong Kong in time for Thursday\u2019s opening round.<\/p>\n<p>Westwood, Canter and Horsfield all play on the same LIV team (Majesticks GC), while McKibbin and Surratt are a part of Jon Rahm\u2019s Legion XIII club.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of \u200cState on Monday called on Americans to immediately depart more than a dozen countries in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, amid the growing conflict.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: Jan Kruger] Eight LIV Golf players are currently stranded in the Middle East and may not reach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,24850,755,138747,14239,257968,44,85,256432],"class_list":{"0":"post-517328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-caleb-surratt","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-golf-digest","14":"tag-liv-golf","15":"tag-liv-golf-hong-kong","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-us-iran-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}