Australian golfer Ryan Peake has formally turned his life round.
The 31-year-old certified for the Open Championship on Sunday with a win within the New Zealand Open, 5 years after he spent half a decade in jail.
Peake was a member of the Rebels motorbike gang and was convicted of assault on the age of 21. He had been a teammate of 2022 Champion Golfer of the 12 months Cameron Smith on the time he was convicted.
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Ryan Peake of Australia celebrates after successful the 2025 New Zealand Open at Millbrook Resort on March 2, 2025, in Queenstown, New Zealand. (Hannah Peters/Getty Pictures)
After leaving jail, he returned to golf and commenced to rebuild his profession with the assistance of main coach Richie Smith and with the help of his household.
He obtained his Australasian tour card this season, and this was his first skilled win.
“I all the time knew I might do it nevertheless it was only a matter of after I was going to do it,” Peake stated. “Together with my household and my crew everybody believed and most of all I believed as nicely.”
Former Open Championship winner Ian Baker-Finch congratulates Ryan Peake of Australia after successful the 2025 New Zealand Open, qualifying him for the following Open Championship at Millbrook Resort on March 2, 2025, in Queenstown, New Zealand. (Hannah Peters/Getty Pictures)
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Peake trailed in a single day chief Guntaek Koh of South Korea by 4 strokes heading into Sunday’s remaining spherical at Queenstown’s Milbrook Resort. He took the lead for the primary time on the 67th gap and went 55 holes with no bogey.
“I’ve simply modified my life,” Peake stated. “That is what I do. I simply need to be right here and play golf. The story is what it’s. However I’m simply out right here taking part in golf.”
Majors have seen their fair proportion of untamed tales, maybe most not too long ago Michael Block’s efficiency on the 2023 PGA Championship.
Ryan Peake of Australia celebrates with the New Zealand Open trophy after successful the 2025 New Zealand Open. (Hannah Peters/Getty Pictures)
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A membership professional, Block all of the sudden discovered himself in rivalry over the weekend, and in his remaining spherical paired with Rory McIlroy, he hit a hole-in-one.
Different convicts to show their lives round athletically embrace 2010 American League MVP Josh Hamilton and former MLB reliever Matt Bush.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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