France, tying for second with fellow Irishman Eamonn Darcy and in May, playing with Jack Newton, he won the Sumrie-Bournemouth Better-Ball. Also in February 1975, while he was in South Africa, O'Leary received a £500 fine and a one-year ban from representing any PGA team, a ban that would have ruled him out of the 1975 Ryder Cup. The ban followed complaints about his conduct in an event in Jamaica in late 1974. O'Leary appealed and the one-year ban was lifted, although the £500 fine stood. Eight members of the Great Britain and Ireland team for the 1975 Ryder Cup were chosen from the money leaders in 1975 European Tour events after the Benson & Hedges Festival on 16 August, with the remaining four members of the 12-man team selected by a committee. His performance in the Open de France, as well as three other top-10 performances, were enough for O'Leary to finish 6th among the automatic qualifiers and gain a place on the team. O'Leary played four matches in the Ryder Cup, losing all four. The next season produced O'Leary's first European Tour win, the Greater Manchester Open. Like his first official win, it was a four-shot victory over South Africa's John Fourie. He finished a career-best 16th on that year's European Tour Order of Merit. Afterwards, O'Leary played solidly but did not move into the upper echelon of European players. He finished in the top 60 on the Order of Merit every season through 1987 but never the top 15. The highlight during this part of his career was undoubtedly at the 1982 Carroll's Irish Open. In difficult conditions at Portmarnock, he defeated English veteran Maurice Bembridge by one shot. This avenged a one-shot defeat to Ken Brown in 1978. He was only the third Irishman to win his national open and he was the last one to win for 25 years, Pádraig Harrington being victorious in 2007. During the 1988 and 1989 seasons, O'Leary did not come close to making the top 100 of the Order of Merit. He retired as a touring professional after the 1989 season. From 1985 O'Leary served as one of the directors of the European Tour, leaving the position in 2019. He had also been on the Ryder Cup committee and had been head professional at Buckinghamshire Golf Club. Death Following a short illness, O'Leary died in Esher, Surrey, United Kingdom on