{"id":520103,"date":"2026-03-13T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520103\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:10:09","slug":"tommy-fleetwoods-family-home-safe-after-being-stranded-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520103\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Fleetwood&#8217;s family home safe after being stranded in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 There is precious little room on TPC Sawgrass for distractions with disaster waiting around every dogleg, but Tommy Fleetwood could have been forgiven if he found himself distracted during <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/round-1-of-players-championship-suspended-because-of-inclement-weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Thursday\u2019s opening round at The Players Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fleetwood\u2019s family were among thousands who were stranded in Dubai by the widening war in the Middle East. Fleetwood\u2019s wife, Clare, and their three children were finally able to fly from Dubai to England on Wednesday but only after one flight was cancelled and another was delayed multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"several-liv-golf-players-in-middle-east-amid-conflict\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Several LIV Golf players in Middle East amid conflict<\/p>\n<p>Brentley Romine joins &#8220;Golf Central&#8221; with news that several LIV Golf players remain in the Middle East amid the U.S.-Israel and Iran conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey got lucky [with their flight],\u201d Fleetwood said following an opening 69 that left him tied for fifth place. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy and it was unsettling, although it\u2019s easy for me to say that while I\u2019m in Ponte Vedra, but it was unsettling for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Fleetwoods split time between their home in Dubai and their families\u2019 homes in Southport, England, but, like many, they struggled to find flights out of the United Arab Emirates as the war between the United States-Israel and Iran has intensified.<\/p>\n<p>Fleetwood said he would never use his family\u2019s travel plight as an excuse for his play, but he admitted it made the round easier knowing they\u2019d arrived in England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were safe, when you know they are fine it makes it easier and Clare was relieved,\u201d Fleetwood said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 There is precious little room on TPC Sawgrass for distractions with disaster waiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-520103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520103","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=520103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}