If Bob Dylan played golf: rated 76, best at course IQ

Bob Dylan as a golfer: scouting report

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 for his songwriting, a rare honor for someone best known for songs, and that inventive mind is the center of his golf card. Course IQ is his best rating. He would never play a hole the obvious way if a smarter angle existed, and he would find routes around a course that nobody else in the group had noticed.

His nerve is the next strength. When he plugged in an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, he went against what much of his audience expected, and he kept following his own instincts for decades after. A player with that kind of independence will commit to an unusual shot and live with the result. His short game is strong, built on the same feel that drives his harmonica playing, and his iron play is steady. Putting sits a little behind the rest of his scoring game, so some of his best work around the greens will not always turn into birdies.

Driving is the weakest part of his game and the lowest mark on his card. He will be giving up distance on most holes, which makes The Long Course Championship his worst major. The Links Open is his best, and it fits him nicely: firm ground, shifting wind and odd bounces reward a player who adapts on the fly, and few artists have reinvented their sound as often as he has. Draft him in the later rounds as a thinking scorer and pair him with a long hitter.

Plays like A wandering artist who finds a route nobody else sees

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