March 2, 2025 • 9 mins
In terms of sports stories, it really doesn't get much better than this.
Ryan Peake has won the 104th New Zealand Open by a stroke, finishing at 23 under par after a thriller down the stretch.
Newstalk ZB's Andrew Alderson was at Millbrook and said:
“In one of the tournament’s most captivating denouements, the Australian sank a three-metre putt under the lens of a buzzing amphitheatre as rain fell for the first time across the four days on the last hole”.
Ryan Peake joins the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Kerry Wood and Mornings podcast from
news Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
He'd b and in terms of sports stories, it really
doesn't get much better than this. Ryan Peak has won
the one hundred and fourth New Zealand Open by a stroke,
finishing at twenty three under par after a thriller down
the stretch. I'm quoting my good friend and colleague Andrew
Orderson here, who was at Millbrook to see this and
one of the tournaments most captivating Dan Neu. More so,
(00:32):
the Australian sank a three meter apart under the lens
of a buzzing amphitheater as rain fell for the first
time across the four days. On the last whole Ryan
Peak joins me, Now, congratulations, what an extraordinary win.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh, thanks so much. It's unreal. And yeah, woke up
this morning and yeah, buzzy, you.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Would probably work up this morning with Mike Coskin buzzing
you his producers at least. Was it a bit of
a night?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It was meant to be but it turned out to
v Yeah, it was an awesome night. Obviously it was
pretty content in just having a cheer one. But I
think was the reception that I received from all the
other players and you know, just getting around me and
just being so excited for me, I felt obligated to
(01:26):
spend a night with them.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, I know how these things go now. Of course
everybody knows the backstory. Ten years ago. You remember of
the Rebels Spiky Gang in Australia. You spent time behind bars,
and of course you needed special dispensation to even play
in the tournament. But when did you first pick up
a golf club?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Off the top of my head, you know, probably when
I was pretty young, but didn't really actually probably probably
when I was about ten or eleven years old, sort
of didn't really get stuck into it too. I was
about maybe twelve years old or something like that when
I realized I had a little bit of a talent there,
So fairly young. Yeah, probably about twelve years old, got
(02:14):
stuck into a dad. Didn't really get serious into it toil.
I was about like fourteen years old, and then it's
sort of just a snowball effect from there.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Did you still keep playing golf when you're a member.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Of the Rebels, not consistently? Maybe like every now and then.
I'd pretty much given it away. I definitely knew at
that point that I wasn't going to be a professional golfer.
I wasn't my career. I obviously had other things that
I was looking into, but you know, I might have
gone out every now and then more just to show
(02:49):
my face, to maybe try and fake my way through
that people thought that I was still doing what I
was doing. But yeah, I pretty much just put down
the clubs for possibly two years, possibly two years before
I actually, you know it will become real public.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
What is it that brought you back to golf? I mean,
I know a lot of swimmers say that once they're
under the water, everything's gone. All the outside noise, all
the outside influences, all the rubbish of day to day
life has gone when you're just focused on the stroke
and swimming. And you know the same is true of
(03:32):
tennis players too. When they're in the moment, they can
forget everything. Is that what it's like for you on
the golf course?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I guess in a way, I think I think golf
is a lot more of a slowest sport. I think
the hardest thing with it is trying to actually let
go of everything that you're thinking. You've got so many
times and twenty shots you've got so much time to
think about other things. But look, I was just sorry,
(04:04):
I can't really answer your question that probably, but I
was pretty much is out there just trying to think
of anything anything other than about what three yeah? What?
What the future is possibly panning out to be?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, and I mean now you have got a future.
It's knit stop Hastings. Isn't it for the New Zealand
PGA Championship?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yes it is. Look, it's obviously as the minutes go by,
I'm learning about basically what the success of yesterday is
bringing and what opportunities they open it up for I
guess the rest of my life. But at the moment,
obviously still in Queenstown, going to head up to Hastings
today to go up to I think it's napier what
(04:49):
to plant the Hastings Gold Club for the New Zealand PGA.
You know, I've obviously got lots of opportunities that have
popped up in the last couple of hours. But look,
as New Zealand as a country, I love this place
and I don't I don't really want to leave it
just yet. I would love to stay out other week
(05:09):
and just enjoy it. It's such an amazing country.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Well, I mean, you don't want to be a one off,
do you. You don't want this to be the great
redemption story and then one and done. You want this,
You want to build on this, don't you?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah? Absolutely? I mean the feelings right now is I mean,
obviously I'm feeling a little bit more excited this morning
as opposed to last night. If anything, I probably felt
a little bit more miserable yesterday because it probably hadn't
all quite sunk in. But you know, I don't feel like, well,
(05:44):
I definitely don't feel like like this is it I've made.
It's it's basically I'm making the small steps back to where,
you know, if my life hadn't gone astray off, where
I should be. And I'm still, you know, probably I'm
a long step behind where I should be out of
I continue with golf. So it's just a small building step.
(06:07):
You know, there's definitely bigger and better to achieve, but
it's nice to be stepping in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Who was the first person you thought of when you
realized that you had won it?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Just my family? You know, I just knew that they
would have been you know what I don't know if
I if I had caused the art attack in the family,
I don't know what had happened. They just would have
There's so much pain and grief and happiness and misery
and every emotion you can think of I've put them through.
(06:45):
But they just would have been an absolute well, they
were just an absolute wreck for me on that last day.
So I just sent them a message in the morning
and just said, listen, I've had a good sleep, I'm
ready to go. I'm feeling fine. I said, just just
make sure you use relax and just enjoyed the day
and it will be good. But they were just the
(07:07):
first people I thought of a are just like I'm
just I'm just so glad that you know this is
I'm just giving him a moment where they can just
be so proud.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, fantastic. It's a great story. And I really really
hope we see your name on the leaderboard in the
future because you're working hard and you're repaying the faith
that so many people hadn't you.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, thanks, So I appreciate it, and I'm sure I
will be And yeah, like like I say, obviously my
story gets put out there a lot, but you know,
there's you know, this is a story that I brought
upon myself as well. I generally think that there's lots
of other stories that people have gone through a little
bit more heartache and misery from not there on doing
(07:54):
from me. So you know, I don't want to be
that guy that takes all this, you know, media attention
as such, from doing something upon myself. There's definitely lots
of other guys that deserve it just as much, probably
not even more.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And you'll be back for the Open. What did you
think of it as a tournament?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Didn't his Yello n iPhone?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Absolutely best place on earth?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Absolutely well winners a grinism. They would say that, wouldn't they.
Ryan Peak, thank you for your time, congratulations and good
luck in.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
The PGA so worries. Thanks so much. I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It was Ryan Peak, who is the one hundred and
fourth winner of the US of the New Zealand Golf Open. Well, hey,
maybe he will be Maybe that was prescient, but yeah,
I don't know about you, but I do love a
redemption story. And for those who are saying five years
inside for a serious assault shouldn't have been given a visa,
he had to go through hoops to get the visa
(08:52):
and yep, he did something really bad, but I'm sorry.
I really love redemption stories. Russell Packer is another one.
Love his story. You know, as long as you've got
oxygen in your lungs, as one of the women working
for the rehab center in the Far North said, as
long as there's oxygen and the lungs, there's hope and
there's life. So I think that's what that tells us.
(09:15):
News Talk said B.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
For more from Kerry Wooden Mornings, listen live to News
Talks aid B from nine am weekdays, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Kerry Wood and Mornings podcast from
news Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
He'd b and in terms of sports stories, it really
doesn't get much better than this. Ryan Peak has won
the one hundred and fourth New Zealand Open by a stroke,
finishing at twenty three under par after a thriller down
the stretch. I'm quoting my good friend and colleague Andrew
Orderson here, who was at Millbrook to see this and
one of the tournaments most captivating Dan Neu. More so,
(00:32):
the Australian sank a three meter apart under the lens
of a buzzing amphitheater as rain fell for the first
time across the four days. On the last whole Ryan
Peak joins me, Now, congratulations, what an extraordinary win.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh, thanks so much. It's unreal. And yeah, woke up
this morning and yeah, buzzy, you.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Would probably work up this morning with Mike Coskin buzzing
you his producers at least. Was it a bit of
a night?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It was meant to be but it turned out to
v Yeah, it was an awesome night. Obviously it was
pretty content in just having a cheer one. But I
think was the reception that I received from all the
other players and you know, just getting around me and
just being so excited for me, I felt obligated to
(01:26):
spend a night with them.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, I know how these things go now. Of course
everybody knows the backstory. Ten years ago. You remember of
the Rebels Spiky Gang in Australia. You spent time behind bars,
and of course you needed special dispensation to even play
in the tournament. But when did you first pick up
a golf club?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Off the top of my head, you know, probably when
I was pretty young, but didn't really actually probably probably
when I was about ten or eleven years old, sort
of didn't really get stuck into it too. I was
about maybe twelve years old or something like that when
I realized I had a little bit of a talent there,
So fairly young. Yeah, probably about twelve years old, got
(02:14):
stuck into a dad. Didn't really get serious into it toil.
I was about like fourteen years old, and then it's
sort of just a snowball effect from there.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Did you still keep playing golf when you're a member.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Of the Rebels, not consistently? Maybe like every now and then.
I'd pretty much given it away. I definitely knew at
that point that I wasn't going to be a professional golfer.
I wasn't my career. I obviously had other things that
I was looking into, but you know, I might have
gone out every now and then more just to show
(02:49):
my face, to maybe try and fake my way through
that people thought that I was still doing what I
was doing. But yeah, I pretty much just put down
the clubs for possibly two years, possibly two years before
I actually, you know it will become real public.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
What is it that brought you back to golf? I mean,
I know a lot of swimmers say that once they're
under the water, everything's gone. All the outside noise, all
the outside influences, all the rubbish of day to day
life has gone when you're just focused on the stroke
and swimming. And you know the same is true of
(03:32):
tennis players too. When they're in the moment, they can
forget everything. Is that what it's like for you on
the golf course?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I guess in a way, I think I think golf
is a lot more of a slowest sport. I think
the hardest thing with it is trying to actually let
go of everything that you're thinking. You've got so many
times and twenty shots you've got so much time to
think about other things. But look, I was just sorry,
(04:04):
I can't really answer your question that probably, but I
was pretty much is out there just trying to think
of anything anything other than about what three yeah? What?
What the future is possibly panning out to be?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, and I mean now you have got a future.
It's knit stop Hastings. Isn't it for the New Zealand
PGA Championship?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yes it is. Look, it's obviously as the minutes go by,
I'm learning about basically what the success of yesterday is
bringing and what opportunities they open it up for I
guess the rest of my life. But at the moment,
obviously still in Queenstown, going to head up to Hastings
today to go up to I think it's napier what
(04:49):
to plant the Hastings Gold Club for the New Zealand PGA.
You know, I've obviously got lots of opportunities that have
popped up in the last couple of hours. But look,
as New Zealand as a country, I love this place
and I don't I don't really want to leave it
just yet. I would love to stay out other week
(05:09):
and just enjoy it. It's such an amazing country.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Well, I mean, you don't want to be a one off,
do you. You don't want this to be the great
redemption story and then one and done. You want this,
You want to build on this, don't you?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah? Absolutely? I mean the feelings right now is I mean,
obviously I'm feeling a little bit more excited this morning
as opposed to last night. If anything, I probably felt
a little bit more miserable yesterday because it probably hadn't
all quite sunk in. But you know, I don't feel like, well,
(05:44):
I definitely don't feel like like this is it I've made.
It's it's basically I'm making the small steps back to where,
you know, if my life hadn't gone astray off, where
I should be. And I'm still, you know, probably I'm
a long step behind where I should be out of
I continue with golf. So it's just a small building step.
(06:07):
You know, there's definitely bigger and better to achieve, but
it's nice to be stepping in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Who was the first person you thought of when you
realized that you had won it?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Just my family? You know, I just knew that they
would have been you know what I don't know if
I if I had caused the art attack in the family,
I don't know what had happened. They just would have
There's so much pain and grief and happiness and misery
and every emotion you can think of I've put them through.
(06:45):
But they just would have been an absolute well, they
were just an absolute wreck for me on that last day.
So I just sent them a message in the morning
and just said, listen, I've had a good sleep, I'm
ready to go. I'm feeling fine. I said, just just
make sure you use relax and just enjoyed the day
and it will be good. But they were just the
(07:07):
first people I thought of a are just like I'm
just I'm just so glad that you know this is
I'm just giving him a moment where they can just
be so proud.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, fantastic. It's a great story. And I really really
hope we see your name on the leaderboard in the
future because you're working hard and you're repaying the faith
that so many people hadn't you.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, thanks, So I appreciate it, and I'm sure I
will be And yeah, like like I say, obviously my
story gets put out there a lot, but you know,
there's you know, this is a story that I brought
upon myself as well. I generally think that there's lots
of other stories that people have gone through a little
bit more heartache and misery from not there on doing
(07:54):
from me. So you know, I don't want to be
that guy that takes all this, you know, media attention
as such, from doing something upon myself. There's definitely lots
of other guys that deserve it just as much, probably
not even more.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And you'll be back for the Open. What did you
think of it as a tournament?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Didn't his Yello n iPhone?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Absolutely best place on earth?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Absolutely well winners a grinism. They would say that, wouldn't they.
Ryan Peak, thank you for your time, congratulations and good
luck in.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
The PGA so worries. Thanks so much. I appreciate it.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
It was Ryan Peak, who is the one hundred and
fourth winner of the US of the New Zealand Golf Open. Well, hey,
maybe he will be Maybe that was prescient, but yeah,
I don't know about you, but I do love a
redemption story. And for those who are saying five years
inside for a serious assault shouldn't have been given a visa,
he had to go through hoops to get the visa
(08:52):
and yep, he did something really bad, but I'm sorry.
I really love redemption stories. Russell Packer is another one.
Love his story. You know, as long as you've got
oxygen in your lungs, as one of the women working
for the rehab center in the Far North said, as
long as there's oxygen and the lungs, there's hope and
there's life. So I think that's what that tells us.
(09:15):
News Talk said B.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
For more from Kerry Wooden Mornings, listen live to News
Talks aid B from nine am weekdays, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio.
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