{"id":582123,"date":"2026-04-13T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/582123\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:47:09","slug":"haotong-li-costs-himself-insane-amount-of-money-during-masters-sunday-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/582123\/","title":{"rendered":"Haotong Li Costs Himself Insane Amount Of Money During Masters Sunday Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

A costly, costly adventure around Amen Corner.<\/p>\n

PublishedApril 13, 2026 1:17 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedApril 13, 2026 1:17 PM EDT<\/p>\n

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Despite finishing in a tie for 38th place, Haotong Li managed to put together one of the most memorable weeks in modern Masters<\/a> history. Rory McIlroy<\/a> winning his second consecutive green jacket is the lead storyline out of the 2026 edition of the tournament, but Li’s efforts should get a special place in the history books as well.<\/p>\n

Li, a four-time winner on the DP World Tour, qualified for the 2026 Masters by finishing T-4 in the 2025 Open Championship and was making what was his third start at Augusta National in his career. Things got off to a magical start for the 30-year-old, but then a toilet got involved, some wayward shots were hit, and the man from China cost himself a huge chunk of change during Sunday’s final round.<\/p>\n

READ: Masters Parting Thoughts: Rory’s Memory, A Bad Broadcast, And The Passage Of Time<\/a><\/p>\n

Following rounds of 71-69 to put himself in a tie for seventh heading into the weekend, Li explained that he had spent Thursday night and Friday morning on the toilet<\/a> due to what we can only assume was a battle with food poisoning. He even admitted he thought he’d pull out of the tournament on Friday, but he stuck it out and shot 3-under in the second round.<\/p>\n

He hit copy-paste on Saturday with another round of 3-under and found himself paired with World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler on Sunday, just four shots behind the leaders. Li played his opening 11 holes of the final round at even par, and seemed well on his way to a Top 12 finish to earn an automatic invite into the 2027 Masters as well as a sizable payday.<\/p>\n

But then he had to play the 12th and 13th holes, and that did not go well. He found the water with his teeshot on the Par 3 12th before walking off the green with a triple bogey. Although his name was still in the Top 20 on the leaderboard at that point, things were officially bad, but quickly got far, far worse.<\/p>\n

Li went for the Par 5 13th green in two, pulled his fairway wood left, and his golf ball appeared to hit a rock in the creek that runs along the hole, pushing his ball deep into the pine trees and azaleas. It looked as if he was transported from Augusta National to a random forest in East Georgia.<\/p>\n

Somehow, he was able to find his golf ball in the shrubbery. He attempted to hit it, failed, took a penalty, and eventually hit an approach shot long of the green before proceeding to putt his ball into the creek. Yes, putt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was an adventure that ultimately ended with him taking a 10 on the hole.<\/p>\n

READ: No More Questions, Only Overwhelming Comfort In Rory McIlroy\u2019s New Augusta Era<\/a><\/p>\n

Li managed to play his final five holes at even par before signing for a final round 80. He went from standing on the 12th tee at 7-under for the tournament to closing his week out at 1-over.<\/p>\n

If Li had managed to play the final seven holes of his final round at even par, he would have finished in a tie for 11th and earned more than $500,000. Instead, he finished just inside the Top 40, will have to find a way to qualify for next year’s Masters, and took home just over $105,000.<\/p>\n

Li may have become a bit of a cult hero of the Masters with his efforts and memorable adventure around Amen Corner, but man, was it ever costly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A costly, costly adventure around Amen Corner. PublishedApril 13, 2026 1:17 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedApril 13, 2026 1:17 PM EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-582123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}