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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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From Masters green jacket to prison: Angel Cabrera’s rise and fall

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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’s dinner Tuesday night was once again empty though and it’s fair to assume the customary annual invite to play at the year’s first golf major that all former green jacket holders receive to play was never sent.

As the Masters unfolds this week, Angel Cabrera sits in an Argentine prison for the second consecutive Augusta tournament. The two-time major winner was jailed for two years in 2021 for assaulting, threatening and harassing a former partner, before a further 28 months was added to his sentence when he was found guilty of assaulting another ex-partner.

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