Former criminal Ryan Peake qualifies for British Open with “life -changing” victory

Queenstown-Da's former member of the Australian motorcycle gang, the golfer Ryan Peak, who served a lengthy prison for assault, achieved a “life-changing” maiden victory on March 2 to qualify for the British Open 2025.

Peak held his nerve to win the New Zealand Open and brought him a berth in the major in Portrush, Northern Ireland in July, until approval as a convicted criminal.

The 31-year-old from Perth celebrated animated and was showered with champagne by friends on the 18th Green of the Millbrook Resort Course near Queenstown after a history of salvation was rarely seen in sophisticated golf.

Peak held back the tears when he admitted to concentrate on Gulf, he had his life upside down-he will now have an exception to the Asian tour that the event with the Australasian Tour with sanctification.

“Yes, I am currently quite lost for words and change,” said the strongly tattooed Peak.

“It's a damn good story, a damn good moment. Just believe. I always knew that I could make it, it was only a matter of the time I wanted to do.

“I'm doing that now. I want to be here and just play golf. The story is what it is, but I am only here and play golf. “

Peak almost did not contest the tournament after he initially delayed immigration officers in New Zealand because he was convicted of a severe attack as an 21-year-old in 2014.

He was sentenced to five years in prison, admitting that he admitted that he had given him a number of bad decisions that had joined him to a forbidden motorcycle gang, the rebels.

Towards the end of his prison stay, he was contacted by the West Australian golf trainer Ritchie Smith, who asked Peak to resume a promising career as a junior.

The conviction means that Peak has to be triggered to travel to tournaments outside of Australia, and he only arrived on February 27 on February 25th.

“Only when I was here I had somehow won because it was like another monkey from the back and got another stamp for this passport for me,” he said.

After a solid opening round of 67 on February 27, the left-hander was flawless afterwards when it rose through the field in the last three rounds of 64, 64 and 66 and ended with 23

A birdie on the 17th Par-five lifted Peak from a four-way difference against 22 under a clutch, seven foot putt for the parameter victory, a blow that the compatriot Jack Thompson, the South African Ian Snyman and the Japan Kazuki Higa free.

The Big Hitter had started the last round in second place alone, four shots behind the South Korean Koh Gun-Taek, who stormed nine over the back, to shoot 72, and was fifth in 21 underneath alone.

Peakie, a rookie on the Australasian tour, takes a winner of 201,600 US dollars ($ 272,000) to win the event.

He said it was just as valuable to deserve the respect of his colleagues and estimated friendly words from the players he had just beaten.

“They showed me so much love and respect, and I am very grateful for it.

“If I had proposed this at the beginning of the week, they would probably have laughed at me.” AFP

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