Perhaps the biggest scenario that comes out of the Augusta National Golf Club this week is the inclusion of Angel Cabrera, the winner of the 2009 masters who plays despite multiple convictions for threats and harassment against two of his ex-friends.
Cabrera spent almost two years in prison in Brazil and Argentina before being released in parole in August 2023. He was then authorized to play the events of the PGA Tour champions later that year.
The journalists asked Cabrera if he “deserved” to play in the masters of this year given his time spent in prison for his crimes.
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Angel Cabrera heads around the 14th TEE during a training round for the Masters tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club. (Images Peter Casey-Imagn)
“I won the masters,” said Cabrera, via the New York Post. “Why not?”
Regardless of the age or rank on the world scene, the winners of the masters receive life exemptions to play in the tournament every year, and Cabrera is taking advantage of it.
Angel Cabrera won the first golf event since his release from prison
He also attended the annual champions dinner Tuesday evening after his round.
“Life gave me another opportunity,” he added. “I have to take advantage of it and do the right things in this second opportunity. Obviously, I regret things that happened, and you learn from them.”
Cabrera won her first golf tournament since her release from prison, winning the victory at the James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational, which is a PGA Tour Champions event. He pulled out of 11 under the peer to climb a victory over Kj Choi and Reatief Tosoosk.
Angel Cabrera is shown during a training session for the Masters tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club. (Images Peter Casey-Imagn)
“Everything I have experienced in recent years, being here, having a chance to win, is very moving,” he said after his victory.
Although there is a lot of call Augusta National Golf Club for having allowed Cabrera to play, some are delighted to see him, as the winner of the Masters of 2013, Adam Scott.
“It’s a happy thing for me. We have a fairly long story,” said Scott about Cabrera on Sunday before the Masters Week. “I met him for the first time on the European tour before we are both on the PGA Tour. We played the chains of the presidents, we were partners.”
Angel Cabrera fired the 14th tee during a training round for the Masters tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club. (Images Peter Casey-Imagn)
Cabrera will semet her first round at Masters for her first round at 10:59 am with Laurie Canter and Adam Schenk.
