Former Masters winner cards impressive round in first tournament since release from jail

A former winner of the Masters and US Open has returned to Golf after spending 30 months behind bars for domestic violence crimes against three of his former partners including his ex-wife

Two-time major winner Angel Cabrera has returned to competitive golf after being released from jail.

The Argentine golfer was sentenced to four years in prison for a number of offenses, including domestic violence after his ex-wife and two ex-girlfriends allegedly assaulted, threatened, and mistreated him. He spent thirty months in prison in both Brazil and Argentina. Despite receiving an early release in August, 54-year-old Cabrera—who won the 2009 Masters and the 2007 US Open—had not participated in a competitive round of golf until this past weekend.

He made his comeback at the Abierto del Litoral, also known as the Coastal Open, shooting an opening-round 71 at Rosario Golf Club in his homeland. In his first 72-hole tournament since the 2020 Bridgestone Senior Players Championship, Cabrera shot three birdies and three bogeys in his first round.

By Thursday evening, he ended day two on five-under par, having shot four birdies and an eagle on the final eight holes to comfortably make the cut. According to Golf Digest, the two-time major champion must ask for permission to leave his homeland. Earlier this year, he said: “I just want to go home, be with my family and start a new phase of my life.”

Cabrera, who first turned master in quite a while, 41 competition wins – remembering three for the PGA visit. His profession profit absolute near £18 million across almost 300 vocation occasions. On Thursday at the Rosario competition, Cabrera birdied the eleventh, thirteenth, and fifteenth openings to rapidly get him to 3-under after a sluggish beginning in his most memorable competition back. The double cross significant champ then birdied the standard 4 seventeenth and finished his adjust with a hawk at the standard 5 eighteenth heading into Friday.

Cabrera, who won this occasion in 1995 preceding he joined the PGA Visit, is no more unusual to the Waterfront Open. The golf competition has been an apparatus in Rosario, Sante Fe, Argentina, beginning around 1932, with him routinely showing up. It’s still hanging out there whether Cabrera will be back on the Bosses Visit in the US in 2024. It is likewise hazy whether Cabrera will be permitted to play in future hitting the fairway majors.