Matt Fitzpatrick says helium is not "100% comfortable" with the imaginable of travelling to Dubai for the season-ending DP World Tour Championship successful November erstwhile helium is owed to beryllium defending champion.
Fitzpatrick is acrophobic that the United Arab Emirates could beryllium a people successful the ongoing struggle betwixt Iran, the United States and Israel.
"You've lone got to look astatine the edifice that got deed earlier this year," Fitzpatrick told BBC Sport. "I was having meal the week I won successful that hotel.
"That's evidently precise scary erstwhile you deliberation astir however it was a fewer months distant but however adjacent you were to that peculiar spot and for thing similar that to happen. It's evidently rather scary."
Fitzpatrick would similar to spot the lawsuit switched to a antithetic big country, a determination helium called a "no brainer, successful my opinion" earlier adding: "But I'm not a sponsor, I'm not paying the bills and each that benignant of stuff.
"I'm definite there's much to it than conscionable the meets the eye."
Led by main enforcement Guy Kinnings, DP World Tour officials are assessing information issues for their last 2 play-off events successful Abu Dhabi and past Dubai.
Both tournaments are backed by cardinal sponsors of the European-based circuit and supply a lucrative extremity to the play for the circuit's starring wealth winners.
"I deliberation it's annoying, but astatine the aforesaid time, Guy Kinnings can't power what Iran are doing," Fitzpatrick added.
"It is frustrating due to the fact that arsenic idiosyncratic who likes to program and beryllium prepared, it is hard to benignant of fig retired what's going on. Obviously, things arsenic they basal are a spot weird implicit there.
"I can't accidental I'm similar a 100 percent comfortable, but I conjecture you conscionable person to spot nearer the clip and, you know, I inactive request to suffice arsenic well."
Fitzpatrick's Ryder Cup team-mate Shane Lowry said the circuit faces important choices implicit however to extremity the existent season. "They are immense decisions for everyone," said past week's victor of the Irish Open.
"I'm not going to beryllium present and remark connected the full happening due to the fact that I deliberation it's up to the powers supra to benignant that each out. I deliberation if the tournaments are on, the players are going to go. And if they are not, they volition find an alternative."
A spokesperson for the DP World Tour said: "We are successful changeless dialog with our members and their absorption teams astir the tournaments they play in, but yet players' idiosyncratic docket choices are a substance for them to decide.
"As acold arsenic our play-offs are concerned, it remains our volition to play arsenic scheduled successful the UAE but we proceed to show the concern and instrumentality proposal from our planetary question advisors."








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