Paul O'Hara picks up $20,000 after play-off win in California

Scot lands breakthrough victory in Fallbrook Open at The Golf Club of California

Paul O'Hara shows off his cheque for winning the Fallbrook Open on the Asher Tour. Picture: Asher Tour

Tartan Tour star Paul O’Hara picked up $20,000 after recording a breakthrough win on the Asher Tour in California.

The success in the Fallbrook Open was secured in a play-off at The Golf Club of California after the Motherwell man had shot rounds of 67-70-65 for an 11-under-par total.

That was matched by American Colin Featherstone with scores of 70-68-64 at the venue between Los Angeles and San Diego, but the title went to O’Hara in a sudden-death shoot-out.

O’Hara, who went into the final round a shot behind American John Oda after his opening rounds of 65-67, signed off with a bogey-free salvo that contained birdies at the second, seventh eighth, tenth, 14th and 15th.

Featherstones’s closing effort included an eagle-2 at the 13th, which helped him storm him in 30, but he ended up having to settle for a second-placed cheque worth $6,500.

American Matt Gogel, winner of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on the PGA Tour in 2002, finished joint third on ten under.

O’Hara is making his making his second trip of the year to the US to play on the circuit, which was formerly called the Golden Gate Tour, and finished runner-up in the Santa Barbara Open last month.