In the end, O’Hara, who was invited to the event by a contact he made during the Tartan Tour’s Carnegie Invitational at Skibo Castle, picked up a cheque for $17,550 but his golfing experiences were priceless.
“Paul has been playing off mats over the winter and hasn’t had a scorecard in his hands for over four months so to go out there, be plunged into a PGA Tour event and make a 54-hole cut is hugely impressive,” said his coach and former Scottish PGA champion David Orr.
“It’s not easy to get the scoring boots on again so it was a great effort. To play with Jordan Spieth on the final day would’ve capped off a great experience for him.
“It hopefully sets him up nicely for the year and he’ll now be really motivated to kick on. He’s done the Tartan Tour proud and the whole of The PGA. He’s been the stand out player in Scotland for a while now and hopefully his efforts give the other guys a shot in the arm.
"It’s very aspirational, seeing someone like that playing in a big tour event and even more so coming from a winter in Scotland. He had a lot of learning to do in a short period of time so I’m really chuffed for him.”
