The Argentine golfer Angel Cabrera has been away for some time, but he returns to Augusta National this week with a spring in his step, as a winning golfer looking for a warm embrace.
Despite the lifetime invitation that accompanied his Masters triumph in 2009, Cabrera hasn’t teed it up here since 2019. Instead, he’s been serving time at the notorious Carcel de Bouwer prison in Argentina, an establishment nicknamed “The Prison from Hell.”
Two former girlfriends accused him of domestic abuse, according to the Associated Press. When he skipped a mandated court appearance in Argentina to play a PGA Tour Champions event in Ohio in 2020, it triggered a red notice from Interpol, and he was subsequently arrested in Brazil. Cabrera spent four and a half months at the infamous Placido de Sa Carvalho prison in Rio de Janeiro before he was extradited to stand trial in Argentina.
Fred Ridley, the chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club, has described Cabrera as “one of our great champions,” and Ben Crenshaw, the unofficial host of the traditional Champions Dinner which has a seat at the table for Cabrera, said he was excited to have him and would welcome him personally, according to Golfweek.
The fallout from Cabrera’s crimes lingers. Even after he’d been jailed for abusing his former girlfriend Cecilia Torres Mana in 2021, she said that she and her family were still afraid of the two-time Major champion.
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