The golfer, who served time for gender violence, spoke for the first time about his experience in prison and was surprised: “It was good for me.”
With his back to golf after serving a prison sentence for gender violence, Ángel Cabrera breaks the silence in his first interview where he talked about what happened and was surprised by some of his considerations.
“Many say prison is bad, but it’s good for me. I’m not looking for the culprits anymore. While I was incarcerated, I realized that if I was still out there and acted like I did, I’m probably not alive now. There are nights when I stayed in my cell and thanked God for my imprisonment. What I did was crazy“, recognized the winner of the 2007 US Open and the 2009 Augusta Masters.
Convicted of “coercion, minor injuries, intimidation and disobedience to authority”, Pato was released from Bouwer prison on parole in August after spending time there three years and 10 months after being arrested in Brazil for violating the country’s curfew. His complainers are two former partners, which today’s golfer admits has promise “serious mistake.” And he added in his comments to Golf Digest: “I can’t erase how I behaved. “All I can do is move on and do something different.”
“I have paid off my debts,” he said. I will work as hard as I can to clean up my image.said Cabrera with his new partner father of a one-year-old baby. “His birth helped a lot. It makes me stronger, it makes me want to improve, so to be there for him and help him grow and become a better person“, said.
Cabrera and his relationship with golf in prison and his newfound freedom
With no equipment or resources to stay in shape in prison, Cabrera said thatand practiced shots without the ball with a broom in the middle of the soccer field. And He read old magazines that recounted his glory days: “I doubted if I would ever hit the ball again.”
It’s Cordoba He returned to the ring at the Litoral Open, a local tournament, where he finished tenth with rounds of 71 strokes, 66, 67 and 69, nine behind the winner. now, dreams of an invitation to the Augusta Masters for the tournament and dinner of champions, in addition to attending the Champions Tour in the United States.
Source: Tycsports
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