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July 07, 2004

Hat or Visor? Here's how to decide.

My entire life I've been a fan of wearing the traditional baseball style hat when playing golf. I pretty much always labeled a guy wearing a visor as a sissy or a tennis player. As of late it seems that more and more golfers are wearing visors. What's going on here? Is there a visor revolution going on? I swear I never wore a visor until about 3 weeks ago when I was at a golf shop & said to myself "self, what the heck, go ahead and try on a visor and see what all the rage is about."


Caution: Wearing this visor may cause uncontrollable smiling.

Is a visor a hat with a hole in it? Is a hat a visor without a hole? These are the types of mysteries in life that I lose sleep over thinking about. What is the point of a visor? Surely bald men would not want to wear one. Is there an advantage to wearing a visor over a hat? Yes there is, but only for some of us. I like the feel of a visor and I have always prided myself on having really nice hair. So the big advantage of a visor is I can show off the hair on the top of my head, which luckily isn't balding like many of my friends. That being said, I, No Three Putts, am now a fan of the visor. Now when watching golf you will notice the golfers who are wearing visors and know exactly why they are wearing them. Golfers with a nice head of hair will wear visors, bald guys and guys with ugly hair will be wearing hats.

Something to think about: The great debate of whether to wear a hat or a visor is almost as mind boggling as whether donut holes are really created by making a hole in a donut or just a marketing ploy to get us to buy those delicious little things.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I usually wear a ball cap, but stumbled across a full brimmed hat that has mesh sides and a gore-tex top. Here in SW Okieland during the summer a wide brim is quite useful and the mesh allows the breeze through. Also, it's a tannish-gray color and has no logos on it so this function over form guy likes it.

Golf Grouch said...

Well, I've seen "Meek"elson with that idiotic smirk without a visor, so it must be something else...

Anonymous said...

I quess the hair club for men worked for you Mr. No3put.

Anonymous said...

i suppose that you have taken up tennis now too then, Sam Malone.

Anonymous said...

visors are much sexier than hats.

hats are for the older, geeky crowd....

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