2011 Masters Tournament – The Numbers Favor Tiger By A Factor Of 5.

The propitious number 5.

Tiger Woods, The 75th Masters Tournament, And The Number 5.  Despite Tiger’s relatively long nap, the effects of his divorce and the events leading up to it are fading with time.  His struggles with his most recent swing change are lately showing results, although not yet consistenly. Few believe Tiger will contend this week; after all, he’s played like a first year professional golfer for the last year. I believe that a talent as magnificent as Tiger Woods cannot be slowed so easily. He will contend this week. The Masters at Augusta is his stage. His game is, as he’s said repeatedly for weeks, nearing his standards, and we’ll see the evidence this weekend.

There will be a Tiger in the hunt. It’s preordained by his past, and also both in his heritage and in the numbers that flow from it. You see, Tiger is an interesting mix of genes native to different peoples: Native American, Afro American, Caucasian, and Chinese. He coined a term in referring to his ancestry: Cablinasian.  Making this more interesting, as a group, Tiger, his Father Earl, and Mother Kutilda each share only one of the four ancestry markers in their genetic makeup: Chinese. 

It’s auspicious, this Chinese connection.  According to Chinese numerology, if a number is homophonous with a word, it often has powerful influence on an individual’s good fortune.  For example, this applies to house numbers, vehicle registration plates, phone numbers, or a residential or business address. The number 168 is perhaps the luckiest in all of Hong Kong – “168” in spoken Chinese is very close to the pronunciation of “prosperity and wealth.” Also, similarly, “518” sounds quite like “I will prosper.” Of course, there are scores and scores of examples of this phenomenon in Chinese, and this holds true despite the many Chinese dialects. 

Tiger Woods = 10 = 2 x 5.  In addition, beyond Chinese useage, numerology in general includes other number theories that purport predictive power.  Centennials, anniversaries, birthdates, etc. have long been analyzed by numerologists to predict or to divine. For example, we’ve all done this: add up the number values of the letters in a word or phrase (a=1, b=2, etc.) and then compare that resulting number to other words resulting in the same sum. Strange results often appear.

Under this numeroligical tent, Tiger’s fate in the 75th Masters is linked to the number 5. Measured this way, the results are upbeat:

Chinese Additions.  As mentioned above, in Chinese, the number 518 is pronounced very closely to the phrase “I will prosper.” Meaningfully, its sum, 14, is the number of majors that Tiger (and Jack Nicklaus) earned by the age of 35. Conversely, however, the number 14 is considered unlucky by the Chinese, because when 1 and 4 are read separately, they sound like the phrase “will die easily.” Quite unlucky. Might this indicate Tiger’s chances in the 75th Masters are to die on the vine?  Not very comforting if you’re Tiger.

However, when we add number 1 to the end of 518, the resulting sum of 5181 equals 15, and, moreover, the Chinese pronunciation of 5181 soimitates the sound of the phrase “I will surely prosper.” Also, the sum, 15, is the number of major tournament victories Tiger will have should he win the 2011 Masters.

Call me a contrarian – go ahead, take a moment . . . call me a contrarian – but, for me, the numbers and the talent add up. Count this Masters as Tiger’s number 5.

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