{"id":3472,"date":"2024-01-18T16:46:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T16:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/haotong-li-hints-at-revival-after-leading-the-way-in-opening-round\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T16:46:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T16:46:28","slug":"haotong-li-hints-at-revival-after-leading-the-way-in-opening-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/haotong-li-hints-at-revival-after-leading-the-way-in-opening-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Haotong Li hints at revival after leading the way in opening round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-1 jQghZF body-paragraph\">A familiar name reemerged on the top of the leaderboard after the first session at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic, and hinted at a career revival in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-1 jQghZF body-paragraph\">There must have been times in the recent past when Haotong Li feared he could be about to vanish from golf\u2019s reckoning for good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-1 jQghZF body-paragraph\">The Chinese player became the first Asian winner of the Classic when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/sport\/golf\/best-shots-of-my-life-help-li-haotong-clinch-dubai-desert-classic-title-1.699581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beat Rory McIlroy down the stretch back in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-1 jQghZF body-paragraph\">The points he accrued in claiming the Dallah Trophy back then vaulted Li to a career best placing of 32 in the world rankings. He was 22 at the time, and appeared on the brink of joining&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/sport\/2024\/01\/18\/dubai-desert-classic-li-haotong-hints-at-revival-after-taking-lead-in-opening-round\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A familiar name reemerged on the top of the leaderboard after the first session at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic, and hinted at a career revival in the process. There must have been times in the recent past when Haotong Li feared he could be about to vanish from golf\u2019s reckoning for good. The Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dubai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubaiattracts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}