DP World Tour : KLM Open Leaderboard Tee Times
For those of you wondering why Canadian Aaron Cockerill has been missing from this week's KLM Open and last week in Austria, news arrived yesterday from his home in Winnipeg that his 2026 season is over, after a long standing injury to his left shoulder has required surgery.
"I've been playing with a torn labrum in my left shoulder for roughly 2 years and it had gotten to the point something had to be done about it. I had a successful operation on it at the Pan Am Clinic in Winnipeg and will be away from golf for a while.
This is the first significant injury of my career, but I am excited to spend some more time at home with the girls while I rehab my shoulder.
I look forward to coming back healthier and stronger next year"
He leaves the Tour owgr #513 and R2DR #151 turned pro 2015, 0 wins, Category 18 exemption.
This injury may in part explain his struggles over the last 12 months.
SEASON STORY
After his 2025 DP World Tour season when he lost his card finishing just outside the top 120, he was spectacular at Final Q school finishing T2 with his best week of the year to regain his card, however with Category 18 status as opposed to Category 10 for those who finished 2004 in the top 100.
He immediately started this season in Australia in in late November with MC at their PGA Championship, then a credible T23 at the Aussie Open T23 -5.
He was a 3rd round cut T78 at the Alfred Dunhill RSA, but MC in Mauritius and Qatar before T18th in Kenya, then T62 in China.
At the Hero Open in India in monsoon conditions her retired after an opening 81, then T45 at the Volvo, back in China, before another MC in Turkey.
In Spain at the Catalunya Championship he was in contention with 67 69 but his 75 76 weekend had him T64, before what was to be his last event, MC in Belgium Soudal Open.
He will play 2027 under a medical exemption, with his playing status maintained due to injury.
EDIT >>.... 26/06/04 4pm EST
Back at this week's KLM Open, Calum Hill from Scotland and American Jordan Gumberg have the early clubhouse lead -3 68 before play was been suspended due to high winds and the threat of lightning passing through.
Play was finally suspended for the day due to high winds, will resume at 7.30 local tomorrow
Julien Guerrier carded a brilliant, battling -5 65 to open up a one-shot lead after a wild and windy opening day at the KLM Open.
The Frenchman battled wind and rain in the morning at The International and was -6 when play was stopped for the first time due to storms in the area.
Upon the resumption he made a brilliant up-and-down to save par on his final hole and set the target at -6 a target that would not come near to being caught as the wind got even stronger for the afternoon starters.
And it was wind that then brought an early conclusion to the day’s play, with all the early starters in the clubhouse and all the afternoon’s players having completed between two and ten holes.
England’s Joe Dean was a shot behind Guerrier at -5 with Swede Sebastian Söderberg then at -4
Scot Calum Hill was then three back 68 -3 alongside American Jordan Gumberg and Englishman Paul Waring, with the large group at -2 containing the best of the afternoon starters, who had battled treacherous conditions.
Guerrier won his maiden DP World Tour title at the 2024 Estrella Damm started the new campaign with two top threes in his first four starts as he missed just one of ten cuts.
“I played obviously really good,” he said. “The fairway was really important because from the rough you cannot control the ball and the greens are very slopey here, so it is tough from the beginning. I think in these conditions sometimes you need to be lucky.
“The toughest thing is to believe when you have 120 metres, for me I would have a seven iron, and normally I am 165, so 45 metres difference is huge and you try to believe and obviously you cannot control everything.”
Dean’s 66 was his ninth consecutive under-par round on Tour as he seeks a maiden win at an event where he finished second last season.
Söderberg had exactly the same scoring runs as Dean over the first eight holes before the wheels came off with four bogeys in a row from the ninth. He recovered admirably, however, birdieing the 16th and closing out his round with an eagle.
Gumberg, a winner in 2026 at the Hainan Classic, carded five birdies and two bogeys -3 to sit a shot ahead of home hero Joost Luiten, Frenchman Clement Charmasson, Finn Oliver Lndell, Portuguese Daniel Rodrigues, South African Richard Sterne, England’s Callum Tarren and Austrian Bernd Wiesberger all -2 69.
europeantour.com
Bryan Angus (edit)
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