{"id":427879,"date":"2022-04-07T10:48:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T07:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/from-green-jacket-to-prison-masters-champion-angel-cabreras-big-fall\/"},"modified":"2022-04-07T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T07:48:57","slug":"from-green-jacket-to-prison-masters-champion-angel-cabreras-big-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/from-green-jacket-to-prison-masters-champion-angel-cabreras-big-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"#From green jacket to prison, Masters champion Angel Cabrera&#8217;s big fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3600055fd88\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3600055fd88\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/from-green-jacket-to-prison-masters-champion-angel-cabreras-big-fall\/#%E2%80%9CFrom_green_jacket_to_prison_Masters_champion_Angel_Cabreras_big_fall%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;From green jacket to prison, Masters champion Angel Cabrera&#8217;s big fall&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CFrom_green_jacket_to_prison_Masters_champion_Angel_Cabreras_big_fall%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;From green jacket to prison, Masters champion Angel Cabrera&#8217;s big fall&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>AUGUSTA, Ga. \u2014 His picture is still on the wall of champions in the press building at Augusta National, sandwiched between Trevor Immelman and Phil Mickelson. His chair at the champion\u2019s dinner Tuesday night was empty, though, and if there was an invite to play the Masters this year, no one saw it.<\/p>\n<p>As the Masters unfolds this week, Angel Cabrera sits in an Argentine prison. He\u2019s serving two years for domestic abuse, and there\u2019s a chance he could face an even longer sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The glory of 2009 never seemed so far away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of kids grow up without a role model and make some bad decisions, their anger within them takes over,\u201d said Charlie Epps, a Houston golf pro who has a father-son relationship with Cabrera. \u201cBut it doesn\u2019t justify doing the wrong thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera was an unlikely champion to begin with, a street urchin who grew up without parents and never had a formal education. A huge crowd greeted him when he flew home after winning the 2007 U.S. Open and there was a parade in his honor.<\/p>\n<p>Then he became a two-time major champion \u2014 and the first South American to win a green jacket \u2014 by winning a three-way Masters playoff in 2009. His future in golf seemed unlimited.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"696\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Angel-Cabrera.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Angel Cabrera won the 2009 Masters.\" class=\"wp-image-21812613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Angel-Cabrera.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Angel-Cabrera.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Angel-Cabrera.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Angel-Cabrera.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Angel Cabrera won the 2009 Masters.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But what was once a feel-good story has now gone bad, and no one can predict when Cabrera will be free, much less play golf again.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Epps watches Cabrera\u2019s vacant house in Houston and wonders how it all went wrong.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI saw a lot of it in his golf, he was a perfectionist early on and had a temper,\u201d Epps said. \u201cHe never had a sports psychologist or anything like that and he grew up with a chip on his shoulder. Once he got it under control, he became a champion he is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the details of Cabrera\u2019s case remain somewhat murky, he was charged with gender violence with a former partner and could face additional time for allegedly threatening the woman by phone after being charged. Prosecutors are also looking at allegations from two other woman, including the mother of his children, and his lawyer says there\u2019s a chance he could be charged with more crimes.<\/p>\n<p>What is clear is that Cabrera \u2014 who was arrested in Brazil in January 2021 after prosecutors issued an international warrant for not attending his first trial \u2014 was convicted in July 2021 of assaulting, threatening and harassing Cecilia Torres Mana, his partner between 2016 and 2018. He is not scheduled to be released from prison until next January at the earliest, despite his pleas of innocence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no crime,\u201d his lawyer, Carlos Hairabedian told The Associated Press via phone from Argentina on Wednesday, alleging the charges were brought \u201cout of spite and resentment.\u201d Hairabedian claimed that in the reported cases \u201cthe common denominator is that there was no physical violence but an exchange of high-sounding words.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"697\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Angel-Cabrera-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Angel Cabrera\" class=\"wp-image-21812614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Angel-Cabrera-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Angel-Cabrera-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Angel-Cabrera-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Angel-Cabrera-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Angel Cabrera<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cabrera\u2019s rise in the golf world wasn\u2019t exactly meteoric, though it seemed like it at the time. Abandoned by his parents, he became a caddie at the age of 8 to earn enough money to eat and it wasn\u2019t long before he took up the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> himself.<\/p>\n<p>Epps was living in Argentina at the time and Cabrera caddied for some of his friends, leading the two to begin a relationship with Epps serving as an instructor and father figure to the young player. They would reconnect after Cabrera turned pro, with the work leading to his breakthrough win at the 2007 U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe really wanted to get better and he saw everybody had a coach so he asked me to help him,\u201d Epps said. \u201cHe\u2019s a quality golfer, a quality ball striker. He\u2019s really athletic and could have been a soccer player, or even a linebacker if he grew up around football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Open win established him as a major champion, even if the golf world didn\u2019t totally embrace him. Cabrera didn\u2019t speak English and never seemed to gain the kind of acclaim another player might have, even after adding the green jacket with his three-hole playoff win against Kenny Perry and Chad Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>The player known as el Pato (the duck) because of his unusual gait told reporters in Spanish afterward that it was the dream of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>\u2033Incredible \u2026 I still can\u2019t believe it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Epps says he hasn\u2019t spoken to Cabrera since he was imprisoned, though he watches the house the golfer owns in Houston. He still holds out hope of working with the now 52-year-old when he gets out of prison and tries to resume his career on the senior tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want the best for him and I think he\u2019s got a lot of golf ahead of him,\u201d Epps said. \u201cI think he\u2019ll come out of this a better man. At least that\u2019s the hope.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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