Interview

Ángel Cabrera: “I always watch the 2009 Masters. I watch the 5 hours and I get nervous”

Wegolf 03 Nov 2020

In our IG Live, Pato told us all the details of his victory at Augusta, and also when he finished second in 2013: “I don’t enjoy a second place.”

You can also listen to it here:

These were his most prominent phrases:

“The Masters starts on hole 13 on the last day... If you are there within 3 strokes... You have to survive the first 3 holes, 10, 11, and 12, and after that you can do anything.”

“I had been trying to do as little as possible, struggling. I wasn't hitting it well... I was holding on... After the start Tiger and Mickelson had that day, I said 'bye...'. I hadn't done anything on the front nine. I had to play very well on the back... If not, forget it. I was there.”

“On the 16th hole, before Kenny Perry hit, I told Yorio 'he's going to hole it, he's going to make a 1'. When he hit, I told him 'I told you, he's going to make a 1'. Later he made two bogeys, but if I hadn't holed that putt... I think that birdie was fundamental, it was the tournament.”

“After I holed that putt I'm walking off the green and I tell Yorio 'it can't be that this guy doesn't make a single bogey on a whole Sunday to win the Masters'. Two holes left. I have to make a birdie and he makes a bogey. It was right there.”

“On the 1st playoff hole, I was almost 180 yards away. And I had to punch out and hit my third shot before they hit their second. I started looking and saw a gap. I was hitting a 4 iron. I hit it through the gap. I was lucky it bounced through the fairway. What's more, the following year my son Angelito says to me 'can you tell me where the gap was?' He looked... I told him: 'No, it's full of branches. The gap was... I don't know... I saw it. For me there was a gap there. The branches grew. For me there was a gap bigger than the ball... It had to pass, whatever. Or I imagined it... Golf is that: it's the moment.”

“When I hit the third shot I told Yorio, 'you know what, I'm going to beat them? They are going to make bogey and I'm going to make a 4 and I'm going to win'.”

In 2013 he lost the playoff to Adam Scott:

“If I didn't win, I didn't enjoy it. Second is the first to lose. It was a great tournament, Angelito carried my clubs... but enjoying it, no. I don't enjoy a second place.”