PGA Tour Champions : Senior PGA Championship Results
Angel Cabrera was at a low point in his life. "I didn't listen to anybody, I did what I wanted, when I wanted, to who I wanted. I embarrassed myself, my family and everybody in my golf world"
Drinking heavily, smoking packs of cigarettes' a day, he was charged with spousal abuse, assault and threatening with two of his girlfriends and spent 30 months in prison in Argentina.
The time halted and radically altered his behavior, becoming an ideal prisoner, trying to get even his grade 6 education. He is taking medication that makes him sick to his stomach if he takes a drink.
Last week, with a whole new outlook on life, now married in 2023 and father of their first child, his son Felipe, his enormous ability to play, now with a clear head led to him winning two PGA Tour Champions majors.
Last Monday he won the rain delayed Regions Tradition in Alabama then this weekend the PGA Seniors PGA Championship at Congressional, edging Padraig Harrington who blew a 2 shot lead through 14 holes, making a double bogey at the 15th and a bogey at the 18th.
Speaking through an interpreter he said " I feel very emotional inside especially after everything I have been through. I thought I was going to fail, especially sitting without touching a club for a while. I have since been working very very hard, and feel all the hard work pays off, and this is what I am having right now."
There is an old Scottish saying, "Yu never appreciate yer health til ya lose it"...The same can be said for your job, or in Cabrera's case.. your golf.
Bryan Angus
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