Assumption University

John O'Hara enters his seventh season as the Assumption head men's golf coach in fall of 2023.

Between the years of 2021-2023, O'Hara has led the Men's Golf team to back-to-back NE10 titles. In the 2023 season the Hounds competed in the NCAA Atlantic/East Super Regional tournament, finishing 16th out of 20. 

O'Hara led the Hounds to a second place finish in the 2021 (spring) Northeast-10 Conference Championship. The men's golf team also qualified for the 2021 NCCA Regional Tournament for the fourth straight season. In 2019 O'Hara led the team to the program's first ever NE10 Championship Title.

In 2018 he led the team to its second NCAA Regionals appearance, where the team tied for 9th in a field of 20 teams and had one golfer sixth for sixth overall in the region. His team was ranked as high as fourth in the East Region throughout the year and at the 2018 NE10 Championships Assumption placed third overall, its highest finish in ten years. During the season, O'Hara had two different golfers shoot a 69, tying the program record for the lowest single-round score.

In his first season, O’Hara led the Hounds to a first place finish at the University of the Sciences Invitational and then a second place finish in the New England Intercollegiate Golf Association (NEIGA) Championship. Junior James Elliot was selected to participate in the East Regional of the NCAA Division II Men's Golf Championship and he took 93^rd overall.

COACHING CAREER

• Head Golf Professional at Cyprian Keys Golf Club in Boylston, Massachusetts (2003-12)
• Assistant Golf Pro at Cyprian Keys (1999-2003)

PLAYING CAREER

• Won the New England PGA (NEPGA) Pro-Assistant Championship with Rich Karbowski
• O'Hara was a member of the Division I golf program at Central Connecticut State University
  • Helped lead the Blue Devils to a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances in 1986 & 1987
• Prior to college, O'Hara was the Massachusetts State High School Champion in 1985, as well as USGA New England Junior Champion and Massachusetts Junior Champion in 1984

PERSONAL LIFE

• O'Hara has one daughter and owns Mulch Depot as well as CJA Snow Removal and Landscaping in Worcester 
• John's wife Libby O'Hara works at Assumption as an Assistant Professor in the Business Studies Department