Haotong Li open on the Magical Kenya on Thursday.
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Iona Stephen gave you a heads-up. Walking with Haotong Li and his Caddy, she had heard their struggle and knew what would go down.
“You want to hold your hats, guys,” she said, “because this can be fun.”
The scene had To be during the first round of Thursday of the Magical Kenya Open, an event on the DP World Open. What didn’t have, should entertainment be your thing?
Do you want a mishit tee ball? You have a mishit tee ball. On the 454-Yard, Par-4 12th in Muthaiga Golf Club in Nairobi, Kenya, Li went left. His ball settled under the branches of a short tree. There were more trees for that. For them, a bunker was guarding the left side of the green. Beyond that was a pin on the link on the left part of the green. The key, however, to our story was what was on the right – open fairway.
Would you get a daring player, shall we say? You have received a daring player. Li, according to Stephen on the Golf canal Broadcast was chewing to go up and over the vegetation. But of course he didn’t wear his own bag.
So would you get some player-caddie interaction? You have received some player-caddie interaction. Li’s Caddy, Stephen said, wanted the safe game. He wanted him to go well, go on, maybe make a four, but avoid the large number.
“Haotong walked to his ball,” Stephen said on the broadcast, “and just went ahead. There was a lot of negotiations with the Caddy, who tried to argue to go the right side, to give himself a chance, but but He is going to try it and take it over these trees.
So who won?
Maybe you.
On the shot, after a short stepback because of a gust of wind, Li took three looks up to his opening, the last one to last a little longer. He really went to do this, he thought apparently. He was. He shot. During his successor, his club was back for him.
In the meantime, his ball navigated through the trees before he finished on the right side of the hole, about 30 feet of the hole. As he looked from a few steps to the right, Li started to laugh. He was right. Of course it was not as if the Caddy was wrong.
But would you get a reminder of the outcome?
You did that. With a TV camera near him, Li joked against his Caddy:
“Oh, luckily I didn’t listen to you, right?”
The announcer Tony Johnstone on the broadcast in response to the broadcast: “Let yourself be a lesson for the Caddy: Trust your boss. I got that on so quickly. … and with Momentum. Stylish. Let that be a lesson for you. I think it’s great. “
From there, Li second, and he shot a one-over 71. He starts the second round nine strokes behind leaders John Parry and Benjamin Hebert on Friday.
