Angel Cabrera gets Christmas miracle, reinstated by PGA Tour after 2-year prison sentence
Cabrera is back in good graces with the PGA Tour and Champions Tour as they announced his reinstatement.
After his two-year prison sentence for domestic violence, Angel Cabrera finally got some good news from the PGA Tour.
The Tour informed Cabrera on Dec. 18 that his suspension had been lifted. The reinstatement is effective immediately, per Golf Digest. Senior Vice President of the PGA Tour Andy Levinson sent Cabrera a letter and notified him of the news.
“Failure to comply with the terms of your release from prison or any additional information regarding your legal situation in Argentina may result in the immediate reinstatement of your suspension,” Levinson wrote.
The former Masters champion was convicted in an Argentine court of assaulting, threatening, and harassing Cecilia Torres Mana in July 2021. This woman was Cabrera’s partner between 2016 and 2018. Two more women, his former wife Silva Rivadero and another former partner, Micaela Escudero, would eventually combine their claims with Torres Mana.
His shortcomings did not stop there. Cabrera was arrested in January 2021 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on assault, theft, illegal intimidation, and repeated disrespect to authorities charges. He was also on Interopol’s “red code” list, which legal jurisdictions or international tribunals use to seek the location and arrest of a person with a view to his extradition.
Authorities sought Cabrera on a separate Argentine case outside the one against his former wife and partners.
After his conviction, the PGA Tour indefinitely suspended the two-time major winner.
But Cabrera got out of prison in August.
Then, earlier this month, the 3-time PGA Tour winner competed in a professional golf tournament in Argentina—his first event since 2020.
He finished in the top 10 at Abierto del Litoral, better known as the Coast Open, a fixture on the PGA Tour Lationamerica Developmental Series. Cabrera won this event in 1995.
Undoubtedly, Cabrera is one of the best golfers to come out of Argentina. He won the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont and earned a green jacket at the 2009 Masters. Four years later, he finished runner-up to Adam Scott at Augusta National, as the Australian beat him in a playoff. Cabrera also has four Presidents Cup appearances under his belt.
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