Pro Golfer Robert Allenby's Alleged Abduction in Hawaii Was Like 'Movies'

Robert Allenby said he was "knocked out cold."

ByABC News
January 19, 2015, 10:45 AM

— -- Pro golfer Robert Allenby said he couldn’t believe someone would knock him out, abduct him and dump him in a park surrounded by the homeless over the weekend.

“You think about movies and you think that's not going happen in real life but, yeah, honestly it does, it happens,” Allenby told ABC News Sunday, describing the incident he said happened Friday night at a Honolulu wine bar.

Allenby, 43, is Australian but he lives in Florida. He was in Hawaii over the weekend for the Sony Open golf tournament, but failed to make the cut.

After a Friday night of drinking with friends at Amuse Wine Bar, Allenby said, he got separated from his friend and went to the bathroom.

“When I came out, some people said that my buddy had, he's already left, he's downstairs waiting,” he said. “I went downstairs, went down the elevator, went out to the, you come out into a car park and that's where it sort of unfolded.”

The married father of two said he was "knocked out cold. And then I believe that from what I've been told that I was thrown in the trunk of a car and then dumped about 6 to 7 miles from where I was."

He says he doesn’t remember leaving the bar. A few hours later, Allenby says, he woke up a park – he’s not sure which one – where a homeless woman told him that she saw three men remove him from the trunk of a car and dump him.

"A couple of homeless guys were kicking at me, maybe they were trying to wake me up - I don't know," he said. "Maybe they thought I was dead. I'm not really sure, but the grazes and all that is from where I'd been thrown onto the ground."

Allenby said he had no cash, credit cards or phone.

He says a Good Samaritan, who may have been in the military, gave him enough money for a cab ride back to his hotel, the Kahala Hotel and Resort. Once there, he snapped a photo of his face showing scrapes on his forehead and nose and then called police.

“I know his first name, yes,” he said, speaking of the Good Samaritan. “I'm not willing to give that name out. But I will contact him and I will try to get in contact with the homeless lady eventually too, for sure."

Asked why he didn't call the police from the park with the Good Samaritan's phone, he replied: "You know what, these people that were chasing me were only 100 yards away. I've just gone through an absolute traumatic ordeal and all I could think of was just getting to safety."

Honolulu Police are investigating the incident as a second-degree robbery. They’re hoping surveillance video will provide them with additional information.

Allenby’s caddy, Mick Middlemo, said Allenby disappeared just as their group was preparing to leave the bar.

“I have no doubt that something was put in one of his drinks,” Middlemo said.

In a previous interview with ABC News, Middlemo related the sequence of events from the previous night.

"At 10:30 I left to go to another bar, and he was going to be 10 minutes behind me with another one of his friends," Middlemo said Saturday. "[The friend] went to get another beer and then when he came out, Robert was gone.”

Allenby says he has since seen surveillance video that shows him walking away from the bar with a group of strangers.

According to the Golf Channel, Allenby didn’t go the hospital, but was treated for his injuries when he returned to his hotel.

Middlemo said Allenby was “a bit sore.”

Allenby says he feels "fortunate" to have survived and hopes "something will come about" from the police investigation.

"We know that someone's used my credit card downtown. They're obviously not very smart so you know hopefully we'll get to the bottom of it," he said.

Because he is well-known, Allenby says he always taken precautions when he goes out.

"You know it's something like this. You never know if something could go wrong. But if you were to see the place that I was in, you would think that there's no way that this could happen there,” he said. “And this was a very classy establishment.”

ABC News' Emily Shapiro contributed to this story.