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Allenby and homeless woman reunited

Robert Allenby after the attack in Hawaii. Photo: Channel Nine.

Robert Allenby after the attack in Hawaii. Photo: Channel Nine.

Assaulted Australian golfer Robert Allenby was reunited with a homeless woman on Tuesday who found him bloodied on a Honolulu street, after speculation about their conflicting details of the events.

Allenby thanked the woman, Charade Keane, for her assistance during the incident and handed her $1000.

On Monday Allenby insisted that the cuts and bruises on his face were proof that he was kidnapped, robbed and assaulted outside a Waikiki bar.

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In text messages to the Golf Channel on Monday, Allenby suggested Keane, who described finding him bloodied on a Honolulu street corner, was “getting paid” for her claims.

Allenby sent the texts after the woman offered conflicting details to the media about his strange ordeal on Friday night.

Keane initially told the Nine Network she found Allenby, 43, only one block from the wine bar, bloodied, confused and arguing with two men.

She said that Allenby asked her to use his one remaining credit card to withdraw $US500 to pay the men to get his wallet back.

When the men became aggressive, she said a former soldier arrived at the scene and intervened, helping Allenby back to his hotel.

On Tuesday night Allenby and Keane told Channel Seven that the she dragged him to safety and they had to leave the location immediately or else “the men would kill him”.

“I had two-and-a-half hours of my life that I don’t remember anything about,” Allenby said.

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The Aussie golfer said: “I didn’t think I’d survive this one.”

Keane says she believes Allenby’s story saying: “I was there and I know he was hurt.”

“I found him found him across the road in front of wine bar where he was assaulted. That’s his blood there, this is where it all happened,” Keane said at the alleged incident scene.

Earlier this week Allenby said he was beaten and robbed after being kidnapped from a wine bar on Friday night near Waikiki, after missing the cut at the PGA Tour’s Sony Open.

He posted a photo on his private Facebook account showing him bloodied with a large scrape on his forehead and another on the bridge of his nose.

Allenby said over the weekend that he was separated from his friends at the bar and couldn’t remember what had happened to him between that time and when he was dumped from a car in a park 10 kilometres away without his phone or wallet.

He said he was helped by a homeless woman and a man who put him into a taxi back to his hotel.

Honolulu police are investigating the incident.

On Sunday, Allenby issued a statement saying he was grateful he didn’t suffer “anything major” medically.

He wasn’t sure if he would be ready to play this week in the US PGA Tour’s event near Palm Springs, California, and on Monday the Golf Channel quoted him as saying he was “not feeling great”.

“Can’t open my eye,” he told the network in a text. “Haven’t been able to sleep.”

with AAP

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