The Open 2025: The ex-bike gang member who participates in Royal Portrush

For Peak – he started playing golf at the age of 10 – it was like a “hobby that they also live and breathe”.

Establishing this lifestyle ultimately ended up in prison to tackle someone who made “threats to us” in his words.

“We just dealt with it, and to be honest, it wasn't that it should happen,” recalled Peak.

“We had generally only gone there for a conversation and he would probably get a few blows on the way, and it stayed with it.

“It was accidental that the threats with which he threatened us were true. He was armed and it escalated from there.”

After the future Open Champion Cameron Smith played in the same Australian junior golf teams and adjusted to “horrific conditions” in a maximum security correction system, there was a dramatic fall.

But inside he started the process of rehabilitation.

“I wanted to achieve better things in my life, as far as I would never benefit from being a bikie, and I didn't benefit from being a bikie,” said Peak.

“I enjoyed the lifestyle while I lived it, but it wouldn't put me in the lead in life, and I would just keep falling back and probably leading to more prison.

“But I had great support networks that always helped me. And this time I took the advice they gave me and followed the path they tried to pave for me.”

“You” are Ritchie Smith, the experienced Australian trainer who contacted Peak during his prison.

Smith, whose students Min Woo Lee and Elvis Smylie also compete in Northern Ireland this week, believed that there was a way back to the Golf for Peap.

“I obviously didn't believe it at the beginning, but as he said it, he did it,” said the strongly tattooed left -hander.

“And as I said, he trains big winners. He trains the best in the world. He will not devote his time to something that he does not believe in himself, so it believed that it would happen.

“I tried it. I probably didn't think it would get where it is now and we obviously try to get ahead, but it was definitely a springboard and it came from there.”