Witness: golfer passed out, hurt self after strip bar trip
Moments before Australian pro golfer Robert Allenby injured himself by passing out and hitting his head on a lava rock early Saturday, he told a homeless man that he was depressed and had been drugged at a strip club where he went to get some "action."
That account came Wednesday from Chris Khamis, a 47-year-old homeless man who says he was present when Allenby hurt himself.
Police have opened a second-degree robbery and fraudulent use of credit card investigations in the case.
"There was no crime (when I was present). It was his stupidity," Khamis said in an interview. "(Allenby) passed out and hit his head. I was there. Nobody pushed him out of a car."
Khamis didn’t actually see Allenby hurt himself because he had turned around, looking for someone on the street with a phone to call a taxi. At the time, Allenby was not injured.
"I had turned around for just a second," Khamis said. "Nobody was around us."
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But when Khamis looked back at Allenby, the golfer was on the ground, bleeding.
"There he was, I was like, ‘Oh, my God!’"
Khamis said he gave Allenby a stack of napkins from his bag and tried to get Allenby to focus, but Allenby kept repeating that he was a millionaire and waved around his American Express Platinum Card.
Khamis told Allenby he wasn’t sure a taxi would take a credit card and offered to give his last $7 to pay for Allenby’s taxi fare back to his hotel.
"He was very down, very, very down, about losing," Khamis said of Allenby before he was injured. Allenby had missed the cut to the Sony Open on Friday, the afternoon before the incident.
Khamis’ version of events contradicts what Allenby has told other media — a story that he was drugged, kidnapped, thrown into a car trunk and dumped some 6 miles away in a park.