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Ángel Cabrera, winner of the 2007 US Open and the 2009 Masters, has been released from prison today after serving 30 months of his sentence. The Argentine golfer chained several simultaneous sentences for domestic violence and other minor charges.It all started in 2016 after an attack on his ex-wife Silva Rivadero.
In 2021, the ‘Pato’, the second Argentine and Latin American golfer to win a ‘major’ since Roberto de Vicenzo, was sentenced to two years in prison for gender violence against his ex-partner, Cecilia Torres.
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In November 2022, the man from Córdoba was found guilty of assaulting Micaela Escudero, who was also his partner, for which he had to add 28 more months to his initial sentence.
After that trial, he declared: “Many say that prison is bad, but it is not like that; prison did me good.”Finally, he has only served 30 months in prison, distributed in three different penal institutions. He started in Brazil, where he was arrested, and it has been considered that he was already prepared to obtain parole.
He goes out under a restraining order from his ex-partners.Ángel Cabrera (Villa Allende, Córdoba, September 12, 1969) is an Argentine professional golfer who played mainly on the PGA Tour (United States). On the circuit he is also known as “El Pato” Cabrera.
So far, he has won two of the four majors, the US Open, in 2007, and the Augusta Masters, in 2009. He is the second Latin American to win a major tournament after De Vicenzo.In July 2021, he was sentenced to two years in prison for gender-based violence, after being found guilty of beating her then-partner and threatening to kill her.Ángel Cabrera began working as a caddy at the Córdoba Golf Club in Villa Allende, the original club of another successful Argentine golfer, Eduardo Romero, who would be his mentor.
He became a professional golfer at the age of 20, and on his fourth trip to Europe he managed to qualify for the 1996 European Tour.He played his first major tournament in 1997 at the British Open, where he would achieve a creditable fourth place in 1999.
After coming close on more than one occasion, his first Tour victory would come at the 2001 Republic Open. same year he finished 7th at the US Open and 10th at the Masters. In 2002 he would win his second Tour title, and his first on European soil, by winning the Benson & Hedges Open. He also finished 9th in the Masters.
