Not for the first time, Mr. Macklowe, an acknowledged master of winner-take-all real estate poker, proved his skeptics wrong.
The most provocative interpretation was that of Claggart, the corrupt master-of-arms, played by Matthew Rose, winner of the 2012 Critics Circleexceptionalal young talent award.
There followed the era of the Bulls and Jordan under the "Zen Master" Jackson, winner of six championships in Chicago before he went to the Lakers and won five more.
The Norwegian is also taking a gamble with his own reputation, from master goalscorer, winner of six Premier League titles and scorer of a Champions League-winning goal with United in 1999 to life now as a coach and manager.
In his new book, Mr Sen, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and winner of last year's Nobel Prize in economics, again draws the three disciplines together.
Some, it is true, have done much better than that: during its heyday, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry was a master of picking and backing winners.
"You look at the field — Hall of Famer, Hall of Famer, Masters winner, Open winner, British Open winner — they're everywhere out here and it's pretty cool," Goodes said, referring to the players he defeated in the 79-man field.
"You're all winners," said the master of ceremonies.
With the issuance of an invitation to the 2010 Masters for the winner of the Asian Amateur Championship in October, the Masters hopes to begin a trend.
The Swedish Academy, which selects Nobel literature winners, called her a "master of the contemporary short story".
In the modern era only four Europeans have attained this holy grail and added a US-based major to an Open victory: Tony Jacklin, who won the 1970 US Open along with the 1969 Open; Nick Faldo, who won three Masters; Seve Ballesteros, who won two Masters; and Sandy Lyle, winner of the 1985 Open and 1988 Masters.
