If Alexander Hamilton played golf: rated 79, best at course IQ

Alexander Hamilton as a golfer: scouting report

Alexander Hamilton would show up to every tournament with the thickest yardage book in the field and a plan for every pin. Course IQ is the top mark on his card, and it is not close. He wrote the majority of the Federalist Papers, fifty one of the eighty five essays, and as the first Secretary of the Treasury he built a financial system for a brand new country. A mind that organized can break down any golf course hole by hole.

His nerve is right behind his course IQ. He came to New York as a teenager from the Caribbean, where he had worked as a clerk for a trading firm on St. Croix, and he rose to become a trusted aide to George Washington during the Revolution. A young man who earned that kind of responsibility that quickly does not get flustered on a final green. His short game is the best of his shotmaking skills, which fits someone who did his finest work with detail and precision. His putting is steady and his irons are solid.

Driving is the weakness on his card. He would rather find the right side of the fairway than chase distance, so The Long Course Championship, with its demand for carry and power, is his toughest fit. He shines at The Links Open, where strategy, a clever short game and patience in the wind outweigh length. He also founded the New York Post in 1801, one more sign of a man who could not stop building things, and his story became one of the most celebrated musicals of its time. Draft him as a thinking golfer in the middle rounds and pair him with a bomber.

Plays like A tireless planner who has a strategy for every hole on the card

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