A wild week for Haotong Li got even wilder on Sunday.
The 30-year-old Chinese star went from spending all Thursday night on the toilet to playing himself near the top of the lead on Saturday before topping a ball into the pond in front of 15. But that was nothing compared to what he did in the final round.
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Li’s chances of winning a maiden major were pretty long as he headed to the back nine, but he was very much alive for a high finish and a huge payday. Then disaster struck. And then it struck again.
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It started on No. 12, of course. Li took an aggressive line off the tee and found Rae’s Creek. Then he found it again after dropping and wound up making a triple bogey. Things got worse on No. 13.
Li found the fairway, but then went long with his second shot into the bushes behind the green. It then took him three shots just to escape the plants and he wound up making a quintuple-bogey 10.
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Li’s eight-over stretch through those two holes dropped him from seven under to one over for the tournament. And created some of the wildest screenshots we’ve ever seen at the iconic 13th.
Li was playing with Scottie Scheffler, who was very much in contention while watching—and waiting—for all of this to unfold. It will be interesting to learn what the World No. 1 made of the situation.
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