Didn't Behr start his believe in/start his own religion based on numbers, although it wasn't like numerology?
You have to like a guy who thinks this:
"For pleasure's sake I would rather play a four-ball match, but I consider the foursome as a far higher form of the game for the following reasons: It is distinctive from the twosome
where the four-ball is not. It demands a method of play peculiarly its own; that is, your partner's game has always to be taken into consideration. This may be said of the four-ball, but its application is different.
The pleasure in the game of golf lies largely in the practice of self restraint. It is a battle against the weak side of human nature. The perplexities as to the right method of
play, together with the difficulties of a course, are the obstacles one has to contend with. Now, your partner is just one more moral hazard. The attitude which he assumes toward you, and how you allow it to take effect, has largely to do with the way you play. Therefore, the interchange of sympathy is greater, and the game is placed on a higher mental plane. It gives both the good and the bad.
The general opinion seems to be that we prefer the four-ball because we get more play. There is something underlying this. Generally speaking, we have not, nor do we take
enough time in anything to appreciate its fine points. The foursome may be compared to a fine old wine that must be sipped and taken slowly to appreciate; the four-ball to a cocktail, a heterogeneous combination of liquors taken in one gulp, pleasing to the taste, but bad for the system. And I really think the four-ball is contrary to the finer points of the game or its system. It tends to minimize the responsibilities of the golfer. If this is true, the four-ball is contrary to the very charm and essence of golf, which is the practice of self restraint." - M. Behr