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Are you a golf weirdo? Do you know one? If you have a weird habit\/collection\/superstition\/whatever relating to our great sport and would like to see it featured here, we want YOU. Be in touch at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hello, and welcome to the first of what is hopefully many installments of Interviews with a Golf Weirdo, where we explore the genuinely strange birds of golf society. Today, I bring you Tweeth Mitchell, who you might know as a great follow from our little corner of Twitter. Tweeth, who is 42 and works in medical sales in Florida, has a real name he told me I could use, but seemed only 50% enthusiastic about it, so we\u2019ll stick to the nom de plume and get down to business. The interview has been edited for length and clarity and entertainment.<\/p>\n

Tweeth, thanks for doing this. What makes you a golf weirdo?<\/p>\n

I own more than 200 golf visors.<\/p>\n

My God. What went wrong that it came to this?<\/p>\n

Well, here\u2019s how it started. I have great hair. That\u2019s true. It\u2019s a family tradition.<\/p>\n

[Note: We were speaking on a Zoom, and I can confirm that the locks are stellar.]<\/p>\n

And I never wore a hat because it de-ages me in a weird way, it makes me look childish. I think that\u2019s true for a lot of adults, so I never really cared for it and I played for golf years without a hat.<\/p>\n

But obviously there\u2019s some functional utility to a hat. You need the sweat brim, keep the glare out of your eyes, and stuff like that. And we have a saying in the visor gang, \u201clettuce wilts when you cover it up.\u201d If you have great lettuce, don\u2019t cover it up, keep it healthy.<\/p>\n

This all sounds like the origin story of a very normal man who goes on to own maybe three visors. But you\u2019re not normal, are you?<\/p>\n

Well, I had been joking about becoming a visor guy, and I tried the low crown visor and it wasn\u2019t for me. So I had a buddy going to the 2019 PGA at Bethpage, and I asked him to get me a high-crown visor. And they had one with the famous warning sign printed all over it, and he brought it back and I thought, \u201cmaybe I\u2019m a visor guy now.\u201d And the course we were at that day, I bought another one, so I had two.<\/p>\n

And from that day forward, that was the move. I never went hatless again. I made the decision, I\u2019m going to be a visor guy, we\u2019re going to make this happen.<\/p>\n

Again, still no sign of the derangement to come.<\/p>\n

A couple years ago, I had like 10 or 12 of these things. And then Laz Versalles and I were going back and forth on Twitter about those visors, he\u2019s a visor guy too. And we\u2019re like, hey, we\u2019re in the gang together! And so I posted about it one day, like, \u201cgood morning, visor gang,\u201d and I thought, this will be a bit. I\u2019ll just do this until people are like, \u201cyou\u2019re being weird about it.\u201d And it\u2019s been three years now where I can\u2019t play golf without posting a picture, and I thought, well, I gotta have variety. I need to be picking these things up more. So over those last three years it\u2019s grown from 12 to 200-something. I\u2019m kind of afraid to count, but I would guess probably 225, 230.<\/p>\n

\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2025\/11\/visorguy_4.jpg\"\/ <\/p>\n

This is the classic serial killer trajectory. You start slowly, but it takes increasingly extreme and risky behavior to get the same rush.<\/p>\n

Right. I think I have a great disease that a lot of people have when they start collecting something, where it\u2019s not okay to have a normal amount of it, because it becomes part of your identity. I was like this with guitars when I was a musician, where it wasn\u2019t okay to have the two that I played at gigs, I had to have 25, I had to have 30, ones that I never even played. It\u2019s compulsive. And visors are easy to get, they\u2019re only $35.<\/p>\n

Do you get a little dopamine hit every time you buy one? Is this a cloth-based drug addiction?<\/p>\n

Of course, a hundred percent. I have ones I haven\u2019t worn yet. I keep a stack in my office where I\u2019m like, I have to wear these. And over the last couple years, I decided that I\u2019m going to be so committed to variety that I\u2019m not going to repeat one throughout the year. I played 81 rounds this year so far, and I\u2019ve worn 81 different visors. And it almost makes me sad, because if I get a new one, I know I\u2019m only going to wear it one time for the next several months.<\/p>\n

As an example, I just went to Palmetto a month ago. It\u2019s one of my favorite places on Earth, and I picked up a couple there. Hold on, I\u2019ve got it right here \u2026 it\u2019s an Imperial pink terry cloth Palmetto visor. And I\u2019m so sad that I\u2019ve already worn this and can\u2019t wear it again until January.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of sad, I assume you\u2019ve never had a romantic relationship?<\/p>\n

My wife is the single greatest person alive. She\u2019s aware of all my bullshit, so I don\u2019t think this surprised her at all. She was with me through the guitar phase and the sneaker phase, so I think she saw it coming from a long way away. And the thing with my wife, one of the things I love about her the most is that she will steer into the bit with you no matter what the bit is. She does this with me, our kids, her friends, whatever. And man, everyone deserves a partner that\u2019s willing to endorse their bullshit. I wish that for a lot of people.<\/p>\n

Tweeth, that was way too wholesome, I\u2019m trying to make fun of you here. Let\u2019s get back to the visors. Full disclosure, I\u2019m a low crown guy, and I have a high crown friend who insults me about it endlessly. I can\u2019t even say what he calls me, it\u2019s too offensive. What do you have against the low crown crew?<\/p>\n

One of my best buddies is a low crown guy, and I beg him to switch, to come join the proper crown team. We have fights about it. Sometimes we\u2019ll bet, and because of that this year I had to wear a low crown visor at our member-member. But the visor crew has a derogatory view of the low crown energy. It does not compliment the forehead. It doesn\u2019t frame the face well. And when you think about the visor as part of the tradition of golf in a sort of weird, overly indulgent way\u2014<\/p>\n

As we must.<\/p>\n

\u2014the high crown visor is what occupies the tradition of at least men\u2019s golf. And the low crown is a women\u2019s golf thing, it\u2019s a little sporty, it\u2019s more like a tennis thing. Maybe a high school football coach vibe. The high crown visor is stately, it announces itself, it goes ahead of you, it\u2019s a more fun statement to make. And it\u2019s unique to golf, because you don\u2019t wear high crown visors in other sports. And actually, the high crown visor precedes the low crown in golf. I\u2019m not an expert on the history, but I do know that the first major winner you can find with someone wearing a visor is Arnold Palmer in 1960, and I think you\u2019ve got to go to Bernhard Langer to find a low crown visor winner.<\/p>\n

I got into it because of Ian Poulter, circa 2012, Medinah. Do you think the low crown visor in men\u2019s golf is a European thing?<\/p>\n

Now that you say that, all the guys I can think of that wear the low crown are European guys, so maybe that\u2019s part of it. I\u2019ll tell you this, when I went to Europe and played, I went to Ireland for a bit, I couldn\u2019t find a high crown visor anywhere. They don\u2019t sell them over there. So maybe there\u2019s a continental divide we have to investigate.<\/p>\n

Who are the high crown visor guys in the pros today?<\/p>\n

Keith Mitchell, obviously. But he was a hat guy for a while, and he had to have his awakening. Bubba deserves some credit here for being the vanguard of this. You got Beau Hossler. Then you have some aspiring players, Taylor Dixon wears a visor, Matt Smith wears a visor, and there\u2019s a renaissance happening in the college ranks right now. And I\u2019m hopeful, because there\u2019s far too many guys and not enough visors.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re very public with your visor habit. How has that worked out for you?<\/p>\n

I used to have a rule where I wouldn\u2019t wear one from a course I hadn\u2019t played. But then a friend of mine played Cypress and was like, do you want a visor? Yes, absolutely I do. And since I post pictures all the time, occasionally people will reach out and say, \u201chey, I\u2019m going to X place, you want me to pick one up? I need your address, I want to send one to you.\u201d And that means a ton to me. I don\u2019t have a bajillion followers, but I really appreciate it, and it feels good to be seen.<\/p>\n

\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2025\/11\/visorguy_5.jpg\"\/ <\/p>\n

I always offer to pay, and no one ever lets me, and that\u2019s just such a golf thing, right? Golf is a sport of community, and these people I don\u2019t know in real life are reaching out. And over the last couple years I\u2019ve made a bit out of this, but there are times when the bit becomes very earnest. And it\u2019s so corny, I totally get that, but the parts where it bleeds into real life truly mean a lot to me. I think golf does that for a lot of people in different ways, but for me it\u2019s through visors.<\/p>\n

Tweeth, I\u2019ve already warned you once about veering into wholesome territory. That\u2019s strike two. Anyway, are there any downsides to this habit?<\/p>\n

I post my own face every week for everyone to tee off on if they want. And I get, \u201cyou look like Ted Cruz\u201d a lot, which I don\u2019t. I look like fat Tony Romo. I look like Tony Romo if the only food they served in the press box was funnel cake. So I do get people teeing off on my appearance, but I\u2019m self-confident enough to let that shit go.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re not that fat!<\/p>\n

If he was sweaty and bloated from a long week in Vegas, this is what he would look like.<\/p>\n

Speaking of followers, you\u2019ve mentioned the \u201cVisor Gang\u201d once or twice. How serious is that?<\/p>\n

This is a picture of my actual license plate:<\/p>\n

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Outrageous behavior. Okay, obvious question, what\u2019s your favorite visor?<\/p>\n

I think the Sugarloaf Double Seve. To me, Seve is on the Mt. Rushmore of visor-wearers, and they did such a cool tribute to his double Nike logo visor. When he first signed with Nike at the Masters, they didn\u2019t have a visor ready for him, so they took two tags off his shirts and sewed them over a club logo on his visor. And he wore a visor with two Nike logos that were shirt tags sewed on top of each other. And Sugarloaf, a year or two ago did a tribute to that where they put two Sugarloaf logos on top of another logo, and I thought that was a really nice tribute. So I have that in all different colors, I love that. But I also love any terry cloth visor, and any visor from a course where I\u2019ve played where it\u2019s like God, this was a special course and a really fun day. Palmetto, Old Barnwell, Chambers Bay, those are among the favorites.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s get deep with the last question. You mentioned your other collections, you used the word \u2018compulsive,\u2019 so what drives you? Where does this come from, and what does it do for you?<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s any part of it that has a root cause, it\u2019s this: I grew up really, really broke. Raised by a single mother, piecing it together, paycheck to paycheck type stuff. And I think people have different responses to this, the economic insecurity of growing up that way. My wife grew up that way too, her response is like, she\u2019s very frugal. But I have the polar opposite response, where if I\u2019ve got a little money, I need to spend it. It doesn\u2019t make me feel comfortable to have it.<\/p>\n

And what I spend it on matters, it needs to be an expression of my identity. If I was a watch guy, I\u2019d have to really steer into it, but whatever it is, what I spend money on matters because I\u2019ve never had any extra before. So as I\u2019ve become an adult, gainfully employed with income that I can part with, it has to be spent on something that matters to me. It should be an expression of me, even if that thing is stupid, because the bits matter. That\u2019s what your life is made of, that\u2019s everything. These are not the glue that holds the bricks together, these are the bricks.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s strike three, pal. We\u2019re done here.<\/p>\n

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