Golf is often a game of breaks, and Haotong Li was on the end of the rarest of unlucky ones during Sunday’s final round at the DP World Tour’s Volvo China Open.
Li, who won the Qatar Masters in February, started Sunday’s final round tied with Eugenio Chacarra atop the leaderboard. The 29-year-old’s final round at Enhance Anting GC almost got off to a perfect start, but a rarely seen bounce sent it in a different direction.
After pummeling his drive down the center of the fairway at No. 1, Li took dead aim at the flagstick. Li’s shot was all over the stick, but it was too good to be true. The ball landed inside the cup and ricocheted back out and over the green, leaving both Li and the announcers stunned.
