one woman two men I thought approached him at bar

Rex Hoggard can't hate getting to hang out in Honolulu for an extra week or two reporting on this train wreck.

Assuming Allenby made all this up, for what reason do you think he did it?

1. Cover himself with his wife and kids?

My feeling on this motive is that he didn't need an elaborate story. Simply say you got blasted out of your mind on alcohol and weird **** happened. Spouses typically don't get mad at men when they get blowed up drunk, instead they're mad because they had fun. At least mine and my friends' wives are that way. Bottom line: Forgivable.

2. Fear of losing your TMAG or Srixon deal?

This sounds more plausible. Wives may forgive you for being drunk out of your mind but your employer is not forgiving. And if you're under performing and the sponsor is looking for a way out, you just gave it to him. When you're missing cuts or drawing 60th place checks when you do make the cut, sponsor money is a bigger deal. So if you can convince others that you got drugged and kidnapped at a relatively innocent wine bar and it's "not exactly your fault", it's nowhere near as penal.

3. Fear of tour fines / discipline / losing sponsor exemptions? See #2 above.

4. Other?

Why report or say ANYTHING? He missed the cut. Why not just stay hidden (Go Michael Jackson at the airport if you need to), keep your mouth shut, and get the hell out of dodge? Have your publicist send word that you were not feeling well and had to leave. ANYTHING but a far fetched kidnapping story. Even if that sh** were true, not many people are going to believe you unless there is video of it going down.

I agree, don't say anything period. But when a good portion of your face has asphalt rash that will last 1-2 weeks after scabbing over, that probably isn't an option.

I think he got so ****ed up and had such a crazy night that he actually believes it. And it does seem that he had some stuff stolen, so it lends itself to reporting a crime. Now in hindsight, I'll bet he wishes he hadn't and could just tell people he took a header down some steps.

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I agree, don't say anything period. But when a good portion of your face has asphalt rash that will last 1-2 weeks after scabbing over, that probably isn't an option.

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Maybe not for the wife, tell her you got twisted on Johnny Walker and xanax and stumbled into some lava rock. She'll be pissed but it won't be the end of the world. Aside from her, tell NO ONE. It's not like he's Jordan Spieth or Rory...if he goes into hiding and skips a tourney or two while the scabs heal it's not going to even cause a ripple in the golfing world. Unless there is something I am missing, seems like the smartest move.

Does he even have a wife? Did a quick google and there was a divorce about 4 years ago.

Don't know about the wife, but I think he has a 13 year old daughter who he was supposed to call on her birthday (the day or day after the alleged incident went down).

It would be easy to skip a tournament or two and let the wounds heal if you hadn't already scheduled to play in one. And if you could delay flying out of Hawaii until the middle of the week when all the other tour pros were gone. Otherwise, good chance you're gonna be seen at the airport by someone in the golf business with a huge scab across your face, then questions arise why you WD'd. And don't forget the Champions Tour is in HI this week. You might have no choice but to stay in your hotel for two weeks, and that in itself would lead to questions.

I think Danny has a point and at least SOME of his story actually happened. For all we know all of it may have happened. This may be one of those instances where truth is stranger than fiction.

Sounds like Allenby doubled down on his original story today. M'kay.

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Allenby is next seen about a mile away from the wine bar at Club Femme Nu (pictured at left), an adult entertainment club wedged between a
tattoo parlor and a Korean restaurant. Multiple sources who were working
at the club on Jan. 16 confirmed to GolfChannel.com that Allenby was
there around midnight with "a group of friends" and ran up a $3,400 bar
tab.

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Who didn't see that coming?

Man charged with theft and use of Allenby's credit card

The question I have is how does some one rack up a $20,000 spending spree?

A few years ago I thought I had lost my wallet. I killed all my cards within 15 minutes after I arrived at that conclusion. Admittedly, not being drunk out of my mind at a teat shack allowed me to pull the trigger sooner....but still.

Tweakers gonna tweak

so a touring pga professional walks into a strip club...

now they're saying he never went to that strip club. Don't tell me this whole thing comes back around to his claims being true.

Who really gives a flying f anymore? 2nd rate pro golfer, some random wrong place wrong time story that could happen to any of us fellas that likes to have a good time*

*good time means different things for different people

CRAZY DAY FOR ALLENBY AT RBC CANADIAN OPEN

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On Thursday, at the RBC Canadian Open at Glen Abbey, his year got even stranger. After incurring a penalty stroke off the tee on the par-5 13th, his fourth hole of the day, Allenby had just over 150 yards in for his fourth shot. His caddie Mick Middlemo, new on the bag this year, called for an eight-iron, while Allenby wanted to hit seven. Middlemo insisted and Allenby's shot caught a gust of wind and ended up in the creek that fronts the green. He took a triple-bogey eight on the hole en route to a front-nine 43. The fireworks, however, started right then and there.

I said to him, 'You know this happens every week. This has happened for like the last three or four or five months. We keep making bad mistakes and you're not helping me in these circumstances,'" Allenby said after his round of 81. "And he just lost the plot at me. He just told me I could go eff myself. And I said, 'Look, you need to slow down. I mean just calm down.' And then he just got right in my face as if he wanted to just beat me up. I said, 'Stop being a such and such and calm down and get back into the game.' And he just got even closer and closer and I just said, 'That's it, you're sacked." I said, 'I will never have you caddie ever again.' And we never spoke for the rest of the (first nine) and when we got to 18 we walked off and he said some smartass remark to me and I said, 'You don't deserve to be caddying out there.' And he just got right in my face and threatened me so I said, 'Go.' So he left."

Without a loop, Allenby lugged his bag from the 18th green to the first tee and called over a rules official to explain the situation.

In the gallery with some buddies, school principal Tom Fraser, in from Kingston, Ont., for the first two rounds, saw what was going on and offered to help.

"'Hey if you need someone to carry, I'll carry," said Fraser.
Allenby said sure.

So Fraser ducked under the ropes, picked up the player's bag "A little bit heaver than mine. I figured out the double-strap with two holes to go," Fraser said and got his first taste of inside-the-ropes action.

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I don't what's better. The fight with the caddy or the patron caddying the back 9.

Awesome all the way around!

Here is the patron finishing up

That's...kind of awesome.

Caddie's side of the story

This article has the caddies version too. Is there anyone alive who believes Allenby over the caddie??

Allenby is off his rocker...dude is unstable. Seriously, who would believe his side at this point?

I don't think I've ever heard one man call another man a c---.

Kinda funny....always been a small dream of mine that I'd be at a tour event and some pro would ask me to carry the bag midway through his thursday/Friday round. Of course in my dream, we go on to win the tournament and I become his permanent caddie. It would be my luck that I'd end up carrying the bag for this "see you next tuesday".

Yeah, this is one of those situations where the saying, "if you run into an a-hole in the morning, you ran into an a-hole. If you run into a-holes all day, you're the a-hole" seems to fit.

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The only thing better would have been the replacement caddie finding 15 clubs in his bag and telling him.

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http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/13426842/man-gets-5-years-using-robert-allenby-credit-cards-id


not sure this has been posted. appears he got 5 years prison

Arrested this weekend at a casino after missing the cut at the John Deere.

drink too much. pass out. get wallet stolen.
drink too much. get out of control. get arrested.

I think we're seeing a pattern.

That said, he apparently learned from his elaborate story about his last episode and has chosen to do a 180 and go with a completely different strategy on this one.

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Robert Allenby says "there's no story" to his arrest outside of a casino in Rock Island, Ill., early Saturday morning. "I don't know anything that's going on, so you can say whatever you want," Allenby told USA TODAY Sports. "There's nothing to be said or done about. Nothing happened," he said. When asked about the charges, Allenby said, "I have no idea, mate. No idea.''

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I hope he keeps his card for a while. He delivers entertainment every year.

Johnny Football of golf.