Masters Champ Returns for First Time Since Prison Stint – Here’s What He Said

2009 Masters Champion Angel Cabrera has not played in the Masters in six years, and after a 30-month stint in prison in Brazil and Argentina, he is set to return to Augusta for the first time.

Here’s what he had to say regarding his first time back at Augusta National:

“It’s the place every single golfer wants to be.”

🚨👀⛳️ #NEW: Angel Cabrera has committed to the 2025 Masters tournament with the past champion set to make his first start at Augusta since serving more than 30 months in prison. (Via @golfweek) pic.twitter.com/5SiWS3aIeW

— NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) March 3, 2025

To get to the place “every single golfer wants to be,” he had to be somewhere nobody wants to ever go. In 2016, Cabrera was accused of domestic assault by his ex-wife. He was then accused by two ex-girlfriends of domestic violence, verbal abuse, and physical abuse.

He was arrested in Brazil in January 2021, found guilty months later, and spent 18 months in one of the worst prisons in Argentina.

He was sentenced to two years and four months in prison — two different terms to be served concurrently — in November 2022. He was granted an early release after serving some time at a minimum security prison in Monte Cristo.

Cabrera has regrets about everything:

“…I regret everything that I have done wrongly in my past. I am also frustrated that I dumped very, very important years of my life. I made mistakes…I am repentant and embarrassed. I made serious mistakes. I refused to listen to anyone and did what I wanted, how I wanted and when I wanted. That was wrong. I ask Micaela for forgiveness. I ask Celia for forgiveness. They had the bad luck of crossing paths with me when I was at my worst. I wasn’t the devil, but I did bad things.”

His first appearance at The Masters since all of this happened will likely be emotional, but it might be a bit of normalcy that Cabrera needs to get back to where he was. 

After is 2009 win, he almost doubled up on Green Jackets in 2013, before losing in a memorable playoff with Adam Scott.

Quotes via Daily Mail, Cover Image via Fox News