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The 26-year-old's victory in Munich earned him his third
European Tour title and first since he edged out Rory McIlroy by
a stroke at the Dubai Desert Classic in January 2018.
"No one knows how much I have gone through over the last couple
of years," Li said. "Ten months ago I nearly decided to not play
golf. I thought I couldn't play golf again.
"If someone told me 10 months ago I would win again, I wouldn't
believe that. Through a lot of tough times, I realised how good
that feeling is to play good again."
Li extended his overnight three-shot lead over Belgium's Thomas
Pieters to five with three birdies in the first five holes on
Sunday, but a run of four bogeys over the next 10 holes allowed
Pieters to draw level.
Li almost found the water on the first play-off hole but sank a
monster birdie putt before Pieters rolled his effort just wide.
"Thomas played great all day. My putter wasn't as hot as
yesterday. Golf, this is golf," Li said. "Sometimes things go
your way, sometimes not. I'm just so happy to finish on 18 like
that.
"Somehow I thought that I would make that putt. I don't know how
I made that stroke, how the ball went in the hole, because at
the end of the day the greens were very bumpy. You just never
know."
(Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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