BELLSHILL golfer Steven O'Hara has qualified for The Open Championship at Royal Lytham after a dramatic play-off at West Lancashire in which he clinched his place at the fifth extra hole.
O'Hara – a Walker Cup team-mate of Luke Donald and Graeme McDowell in 2001 – said: "It's fantastic, especially to have had my dad Charlie as my caddie. It has made the day really special – it brought back a lot of memories for me."
But there was disappointment for Greenock's Chris Doak, who lost in play-off at Southport and Ainsdale, where fellow-Scot Eliot Saltman went through with Ian Keenan.