Visors: Stylin' or No Good

[walk18]

Those who are against visors and aren't balding, can you give a real reason as to why you hate them other than "they're gay"?

[GaijinGolfer]

Im not a fan of visors. I dont care for the way they look.

[colin007]

Those who are against visors and aren't balding, can you give a real reason as to why you hate them other than "they're gay"?

theyre fugly.

[HoosierGolfer]

I like em, I just don't have enough hair on top to wear one any more. I like the smaller ones over the large ones from years ago. If I had hair, I would wear one once in awhile. Hat for me though...

[ERC7.5]

I absolutely can not wear a visor (it's my hairs fault). Ball cap always (judging by my hair line....too often).

[Fourputt]

I would suggest that your causal and correlation are a bit backwards here... I think those with good hair can wear a visor, those with thinning hair cant.. I do not think there is any science that backs up full coverage headwear causing hair loss.

Yup. That's an old wives tale that I know my grandmother used to buy into. Most balding is strictly genetic. I guess there are some medical conditions which can cause it, but I've never heard anyone in the medical community back up the hat theory.

[Grahaman]

I been wearing a ball cap for years but used to wear a visor from time to time. My head does get hot in the heat of the summer with a ball cap. Maybe I should get a new visor to wear? What I really need to get is a scally cap for the spring and fall playing season. That would be a look, rocking the Payne Stewart style on my noggin.

[sean_miller]

Yup. That's an old wives tale that I know my grandmother used to buy into. Most balding is strictly genetic. I guess there are some medical conditions which can cause it, but I've never heard anyone in the medical community back up the hat theory.

Not an old wives tale. Most people I know who play a lot of baseball and hockey are balding where their hat/ helmet is tightest - coincidentally their male pattern baldness is like a template for their helmet liner. Some are the only male in the family with any type of hair loss. A few guys have bald spots on their legs from shin pads and socks with too much elastic - you can see the lines match up perfectly. My hair was thinning along the sides until I switched to a bigger hat size - or no hat at all if possible. Now it's under control. Then again, now that I'm married I don't stress about hair loss - maybe that's a factor.

[Uber$winG]

I wear visors exclusively.

Although, this season I am seriously entertaining the idea of wearing the new Titleist kevlar helmet replete with a plexiglass face shield so as to protect my super soft melon from someone’s errant shot.

[Awsi Dooger]

I wear visors exclusively also. Let's see, this is a tough call. They are much lighter, feel better and look classier. Otherwise, we'll call it a draw, like that Monty Python skit.

Why does this thread even exist? I think baseball caps make a guy look like a conformist simpleton whose most profound thought process is where to aim his next spit. But I can't imagine starting a thread about it, or ever voicing the opinion minus a contrary vehicle like this.

Let me guess, the same posters who are paranoid about visors are the ones who get scared of iron covers.

[tartanpants]

For me a visor is a throwback to the 1970's, I don't care for them either. Think Poulter is about the only guy who can get away with wearing one. Besides there is more advertising space on a full cap!!

[Bump-n-MI]

Low profile Titleist visors exclusively. Sucked last year because I started to shave my head and had to constantly apply sunscreen . Won't be the case this year because I let my hair grow back.

[lumpuckeroo]

I generally were a full cap, but on the really hot and humid days in the summer I wear a visor.

[LBlack14]

I'll wear both b-ball style caps and visors.

[pxc]

I would wear a visor if I found one that fit my head. I have a gigantic head.

[Clambake]

I'll wear both about equally, and it usually just depends on what I wear that day as I have visors that go best with some outfits and hats that go better with others. But I have one comment on what others wear: it seems that I rarely see a tacky visor, but I run into a lot of people on the course whose hat looks like something bought at the check-out rack in a truck stop in Gila Bend, Arizona (or some place equally lacking in clothing good taste). Seriously, if you're going to wear a hat to the golf course, please wear something that wouldn't make an "I'm With Stupid" T-shirt look like a classy clothing choice!!!

[B-Con]

Can you not see the bill of a cap/visor when you're wearing it?

I guess I could wear it backwards or sideways, but that would eliminate most of its functionality as well as get me kicked off the course.

[sean_miller]

Can you not see the bill of a cap/visor when you're wearing it?

Try a cap with black (or other dark coloured) brim underside. Also, get checked out for OCD. I've considered it myself (every morning when I have to back down the alley to make sure the garage door is really closed).