Cabrera was out early on the second day of practice, the first to tee off before the patrons had taken their places behind the greens or besides the fairways. Whether avoiding unwanted attention or keen for practice at a course he last saw in 2019, we could not know. Clearly absence has not harmed his ball-striking. From that crouched, bear-like stance, he gives the ball a fearsome clump. He does, however, look older than his 55 years, those early privations in Cordoba and the prison experience leaving an indelible imprint.
Cheating on his wife was hardly trivial, however, infidelity is a lesser crime than the abuse for which Cabrera was convicted in 2021. Woods did not raise a hand against Elin Nordegren, unlike the 2009 Master champion, who served 30 months, first in Brazil and then Argentina, for assaults against two women.
The Masters has welcomed Cabrera back with open arms (Photo: Reuters)
Adam Scott, also a former winner here in 2013, and a President’s Cup team-mate, was equally welcoming. “I’m thrilled he’s going to be back joining us this year. I can’t wait to see him. It’s a happy thing for me,” he said. Ben Crenshaw, Masters champion in 1984 and 1995, said: “I tell you what, I’m excited to see Angel. The focus of the dinner will be on Scottie [Scheffler, last year’s winner], but it’ll be great to have Angel back.”
This brings us to the heart of the tension. Having met the conditions of a civil society, serving his time, declaring his repentance and pledging to be a better man, should we not all embrace the return of El Pato, affectionately named for the manner of his flat-footed stride that evokes a duck’s waddle?
“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,” Cabrera said in an interview with The Daily Mail in which his manager Manuel Tagle served as an interpreter. “That was wrong. I ask Micaela for forgiveness. I ask Cecilia for forgiveness [the former girlfriend he assaulted]. 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.”
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I never imagined I would be looking at the winner. Sixteen years on, winning or losing seems the least of it. By the sixth green the patrons had started to gather and the first group of photographers had caught up with him. They were not training their lenses on Jhonattan Vegas, who was sharing the practice round with him.
“I am still afraid,” she said in a first-person piece that appeared on the Orato World website when Cabrera was still in jail. “I cannot be completely free or calm, knowing what kind of person he is and the threats he made. I believe my family and I are still at risk.”
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