{"id":503740,"date":"2026-03-04T19:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/503740\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:15:11","slug":"jon-rahm-sends-jet-for-liv-golfers-in-dubai-to-reach-tournament-in-hong-kong-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/503740\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Rahm sends jet for LIV golfers in Dubai to reach tournament in Hong Kong, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"rahm.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/rahm.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf will be in Hong Kong this week for the third event of their season, but a number of players&#8217; status for this week was uncertain amid travel issues for those that live in the Middle East due to the escalating war in Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Flights out of Dubai, which has become home base for a number of LIV golfers, became exceedingly difficult to come by due to the ongoing conflict and suggestions from the United States and other countries for those living in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/americans-trying-to-evacuate-middle-east-frustrated-with-government-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">14 Middle East nations to evacuate<\/a> after the beginning of Operation Epic Fury from U.S. and Israeli forces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eight players in the field this week in Hong Kong were reportedly scrambling to find a way out of Dubai to make it on time for the start of the event on Thursday. On Tuesday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alan_bastable\/status\/2029049645792428173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Golf.com&#8217;s Alan Bastable<\/a>, seven of those players &#8212; Thomas Detry, Lee Westwood, Anirban Lahiri, Sam Horsfield, Tom McKibbin, Adrian Meronk and Caleb Surratt &#8212; plus one caddie went on quite the journey to get on a private jet commissioned by LIV star Jon Rahm out of neighboring Oman in order to make it to Hong Kong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While LIV had presented an option to fly from Dubai to London and then on to Hong Kong, Rahm sent a plane to Oman that provided a more direct route. However, it did involve the players, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alan_bastable\/status\/2029049653824508152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">per Bastable<\/a>, take ground transport from Dubai to the Oman border late at night, then change to a different shuttle that took them to the airstrip where the jet was waiting and took off just after midnight local.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The players arrived in Hong Kong at 11:22 a.m. local time, just over 24 hours from the start of the first round at Hong Kong Golf Club.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images LIV Golf will be in Hong Kong this week for the third event of their season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,229469,229468,99,227350,229470],"class_list":["post-503740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-jon-rahm-dubai","tag-jon-rahm-liv-golf","tag-sports","tag-us-iran-war","tag-us-israel-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}