Eight LIV Golf players stranded in the Middle East amid US–Iran war – Australian Golf Digest

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Eight LIV Golf players are currently stranded in the Middle East and may not reach this week’s event in Hong Kong, according to reports.

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A host of the Saudi-backed circuit’s membership was practising in Dubai ahead of LIV’s 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 – along with sites in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman – 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.

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.

Those players are:

Lee Westwood
Laurie Canter
Sam Horsfield
Adrian Meronk… pic.twitter.com/nVlC7oyLwp

— Flushing It (@flushingitgolf) March 3, 2026

“It was terrifying,” Surratt told Golf Channel’s Brentley Romaine on Tuesday via text about being in the region when the bombing occurred. “But since then, it’s been OK. It was bad Sunday and Monday here with missile interceptions, but all day today was fine.”

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’s opening round.

Westwood, Canter and Horsfield all play on the same LIV team (Majesticks GC), while McKibbin and Surratt are a part of Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII club.

The US Department of ‌State 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.