Former bike gang member who spent 5 years in prison qualifies for Open Championship after winning tournament

Australian golfer Ryan Peake has officially turned his beingness around.

The 31-year-old qualified for the Open Championship connected Sunday with a triumph successful the New Zealand Open, 5 years aft helium spent fractional a decennary successful prison.

Peake was a subordinate of the Rebels motorcycle pack and was convicted of battle astatine the property of 21. He had been a teammate of 2022 Champion Golfer of the Year Cameron Smith astatine the clip helium was convicted.

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Ryan Peake of Australia celebrates aft winning the 2025 New Zealand Open astatine Millbrook Resort connected March 2, 2025, successful Queenstown, New Zealand. (Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

After leaving jail, helium returned to play and began to rebuild his vocation with the assistance of starring manager Richie Smith and with the enactment of his family.

He received his Australasian circuit paper this season, and this was his archetypal nonrecreational win.

"I ever knew I could bash it but it was conscionable a substance of erstwhile I was going to bash it," Peake said. "Along with my household and my squad everyone believed and astir of each I believed arsenic well."

Former Open Championship victor Ian Baker-Finch congratulates Ryan Peake of Australia aft winning the 2025 New Zealand Open, qualifying him for the adjacent Open Championship astatine Millbrook Resort connected March 2, 2025, successful Queenstown, New Zealand. (Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

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Peake trailed overnight person Guntaek Koh of South Korea by 4 strokes heading into Sunday’s last circular astatine Queenstown’s Milbrook Resort. He took the pb for the archetypal clip connected the 67th spread and went 55 holes without a bogey.

"I’ve conscionable changed my life," Peake said. "This is what I do. I conscionable privation to beryllium present and play golf. The communicative is what it is. But I’m conscionable retired present playing golf."

Majors person seen their just stock of chaotic stories, possibly astir precocious Michael Block's show astatine the 2023 PGA Championship.

Ryan Peake of Australia celebrates with the New Zealand Open trophy aft winning the 2025 New Zealand Open. (Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

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A nine pro, Block abruptly recovered himself successful contention implicit the weekend, and successful his last circular paired with Rory McIlroy, helium deed a hole-in-one.

Other convicts to crook their lives astir athletically see 2010 American League MVP Josh Hamilton and erstwhile MLB reliever Matt Bush.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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