Li lands four eagles; Bhullar moves up 30 places to T-27th

China's Li Haotong created history with four eagles in a single round while Sergio Garcia was disqualified for "serious misconduct" on day three of the Saudi International golf tournament here Saturday.

Amidst all the action, India's Gaganjeet Bhullar finally saw putts dropping and shot four-under 66 to get to four-under and Tied-27th, up 31 places from the cutline at T-58th.

Li, starting the day three shots behind, closed eagle-eagle to join overnight leader Dustin Johnson at 16-under. He now plays in final group for the second successive week. Last week, he was penalised two shots as his caddie was deemed to have lined up behind him on the 18th and he tumbled from third to T-12th.

As the 2017 Masters champion Garcia exited before time, the 2018 Masters champion Patrick Reed made three trips to the water and scored a 10 on 18th but still carded 72.

The Tour put out a statement, saying, "Sergio Garcia has been disqualified from the third round of the Saudi International powered under rule 1.2a. Rule 1.2a allows for disqualification if a player has committed serious misconduct."
Garcia said, "I respect the decisions of my disqualification. In frustration I damaged a couple of greens, for which I apologise, and I have informed my fellow players that it will never happen again."
"I think it's very, very lucky today. Those eagles, especially last couple shots, was really solid, but except that, honestly, my play, wasn't that good. But I did made a lot of par putts."