Aaron Cockerill stole the early moments of first spherical motion from the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
The Canadian had turned in a 33, however was at risk of letting a powerful begin slip when he made a double-bogey on the tenth and dropped one other shot on the twelfth.
However an ace on the 159-yard subsequent noticed him return to 3 underneath for the day as his nine-iron from the tee landed barely proper of the pin earlier than feeding right down to the cup.
Cockerill’s ace meant he had a scorecard containing each quantity from one to 6 in his first 13 holes.
Coming into the week mendacity forty seventh on the Race to Dubai Rankings in, with the highest 50 progressing to subsequent week’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship, the 32-year-old completed with 5 consecutive pars to finish a gap 69 within the opening occasion of the DP World Tour postseason.
Cockerill is the thirty first completely different participant to have made a hole-in-one on the DP World Tour on the 2024 Race to Dubai.
