Manitoba golfer set for DP World Tour playoffs [Video]

Aaron Cockerill has been carefully working away at his golf game like a master craftsman, just chipping away with a hammer and chisel.

The result is that he’s in the midst of his best-ever season as a professional golfer and will play in the European-based DP World Tour’s playoffs for the first time ever when the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship tees off on Thursday.

Reaching that elite tournament has been the product of incremental improvement year-over-year.

“My whole career has been like that, I’ve slowly improved,” said Cockerill in a phone interview from his home in Dubai. “Whether it was an OK year on the Canadian Tour to a better year on the Canadian Tour, to moving over to the Challenge Tour, to getting on to the DP World Tour, and since then every year, I’ve gotten just steadily better.

“Nothing is really too drastically different, just slowly been chipping …