
CALUM CROWE: It's Sons of Anarchy meets Happy Gilmore as former bike-gang bad boy Ryan Peake tees it up at Royal Portrush
After his dream of being a professional golfer had fallen by the wayside, Peake became a member of a biker gang before serving a five-year sentence behind bars for assault back home in Australia.

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