For Peake – who started enjoying golf aged 10 – being a “bikie” was like having a “passion that you simply stay and breathe as properly”.

Nevertheless, aligning himself with that way of life in the end landed him in jail for his half in assaulting a rival gang member who, in his phrases, was making “threats in direction of us”.

“We simply went to take care of it, and truthfully, it wasn’t meant to occur like that,” Peake recalled.

“We have been typically simply going there for a chat and he was in all probability going to get a few punches alongside the best way and it was left at that.

“It simply occurred to be that the threats he threatened us with have been true. He was armed and it escalated from there.”

Having performed in the identical Australian junior golf groups as future Open champion Cameron Smith, adjusting to “appalling circumstances” in a most safety correctional facility represented a dramatic downfall.

However whereas inside, he started the method of rehabilitation.

“I wished to realize higher issues in my life so far as I used to be by no means going to revenue from being a bikie, and I did not revenue from being a bikie,” stated Peake.

“I loved the approach to life whereas I used to be residing it, nevertheless it wasn’t going to get me forward in life, and I used to be simply at all times going to fall additional and additional behind and doubtless result in extra jail.

“However I’ve had nice assist networks which have at all times helped me. And this time I took the recommendation that they have been giving me and adopted the trail they have been attempting to pave for me.”

‘They’ embrace Ritchie Smith, the skilled Australian coach who contacted Peake whereas he was in jail.

Smith, whose college students Min Woo Lee and Elvis Smylie are additionally competing in Northern Eire this week, believed there was a approach again to golf for Peake.

“I clearly did not consider it at the beginning, however like he says, he did,” defined the closely tattooed left-hander.

“And, you understand, like I stated earlier than as properly, he coaches main winners. He coaches the world’s finest. He isn’t going to dedicate his time in one thing that he does not consider in himself, so that is what acquired me believing it might occur.

“I gave it a go. I in all probability did not suppose it was going to precisely get to the place it is acquired to now, and we’re attempting to progress additional clearly, nevertheless it was positively a stepping stone, and it got here from there.”