Big Sur

The Big Sur name runs through three eras on record, each tied to the broader family it belonged to at the time rather than standing alone as a single design carried forward unchanged.

It begins in 1998 with the Classics Big Sur, built for the long, pendulum-style stroke that the maker's page describes as accommodating players who prefer longer length putters. The maker's page lists the 1998 version at 4.5° of loft, a 79.5° lie, and 48 inches of length, with a lustrous gun blue finish and a single white sightline. The record also carries a separate maker-published line for the Big Sur giving 4° loft, 71° lie, and 35 inches, figures that sit alongside the 1998 specifications rather than replacing them, a discrepancy worth noting rather than resolving here.

By 2002 the Big Sur had moved into the Pro Platinum series, and the maker's page frames this as a re-design rather than a running update: "The Big Sur was re-designed in 2002 and became part of the Pro-Platinum Series, known for its crisp sound and feel." The changes were structural as well as cosmetic. The head gained thicker walls where the shaft enters, said to improve sound and feel, the shaft itself became a slightly thinner profile and stiffer, proprietary, single bend design with no offset, and the grip changed to a split, round grip. Length held at 48 inches, verified on record, while lie moved up to 80 degrees.

The 2003 Studio Stainless Big Sur carried that Pro Platinum redesign forward into a new material. The maker's page ties the two eras together directly: "The Big Sur was re-designed in 2002 and became part of the Studio Stainless Series in 2003," retaining the thinner, stiffer single-bend shaft, the thicker-walled head, and the split round grip, now paired with milled 303 stainless steel construction. Loft, lie, and length held to the same 4°, 80°, and 48 inches verified for the Pro Platinum version, making 2003 read less as a fresh design than as the Pro Platinum head carried into a new series and a new metal.

Across these three releases, the Big Sur's arc on record is one of a long-putter concept anchored first in the Classics line's gun blue, long-pendulum build, then reworked in 2002 with structural and shaft changes that carried, largely intact, into the Studio Stainless steel version the following year.