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Aaron Cockerill (born 17 April 1992) is a Canadian
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and
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player. He was runner-up at the 2022
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, as well as the 2023 ISPS Handa Championship in Japan, losing in a playoff to Lucas Herbert.


Amateur career

Cockerill played golf at Stonewall Collegiate High School, where he was a four-time zone champion and served as team captain for three years. He played three years on the Team Manitoba province squad. Cockerill had a successful year in 2010, winning the Manitoba Junior Men's Championship and finished 10th at the
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. He also won the Golf Canada Western Future Links Championship and was the medalist at the Manitoba Match Play Championship. He was the low individual at the Provincial Junior Interclub, helping Teulon capture the rural division. He also finished second at the Rural Junior Championship, and received the Manitoba Amateur Golfer of the Year Award. In 2010, Cockerill enrolled at
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and played with the
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golf team. He led the team in scoring average, and was a business administration major. In 2011, he transferred to
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, where he played with the
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golf team and earned first-team all-
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honors as a senior and graduated in 2014.


Professional career

Cockerill turned professional in 2015, and played on the
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between 2016 and 2018 with limited success. In 2019, he joined the
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, where he recorded back-to-back top-10 finishes at the Hopps Open de Provence, Lalla Aïcha Challenge Tour, and Stone Irish Challenge to finish 49th in the season rankings. Cockerill tied for 5th at
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and joined the
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. In his rookies season he opened with a 64 and 68 at the
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to set the early clubhouse target, and finished the tournament tied for 4th. In 2022, he was runner-up at the
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. Cockerill was again in contention at the ISPS Handa Championship in Spain, where he shot a 62 and set the clubhouse target on a weather-affected day three. He finished the tournament tied for third, two strokes behind winner
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. Cockerill made a hole-in-one on the opening day of the 2022
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, to collect a life insurance policy. He made a second one in the space of a week when making an ace on the 16th hole at Made in HimmerLand. With all the hole-in-one chatter in the recording area he forgot to sign his scorecard, and got disqualified. Cockerill started the 2023 season with a tie for 4th at the
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.


Amateur wins

*2010 Manitoba Junior Men's Championship, Western Future Links Championship


Playoff record

European Tour playoff record (0–1)


See also

* 2019 European Tour Qualifying School graduates


References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cockerill, Aaron Canadian male golfers European Tour golfers East Texas A&M Lions men's golfers Idaho Vandals men's golfers Golfing people from Manitoba 1992 births Living people 21st-century Canadian sportsmen