Pro Platinum Del Mar 3

The 1999 Del Mar 3 in Pro Platinum is a mid-mallet from Scotty Cameron's Pro Platinum family, milled from a solid block of soft carbon steel and plated in that finish. The maker's page describes it as offering "a lot of toe flow for the swinging gate effect," a heel/toe weighted head with a neck that "flows softly from the topline." The single sightline sits on the back flange, placed, per the maker, "on the flat section of the flange so there is no distortion at setup." Specs run 4° of loft, 71° of lie, and a 35" length. The maker's page also notes the model "was tested on Tour and now part of the production family," which places it among the Cameron designs that moved from player use into retail production rather than starting there. Worth flagging: golfheritage.org lists this release as a 2000 model, against the maker's own dating of 1999.

Within the Pro Platinum line, the Del Mar 3 sits alongside the Del Mar 3.5 that followed it in 2001, a heel-shafted, toe-heavy design the maker describes as promoting "a closing of the gate at impact," which reads as a different weighting philosophy than the 3's swinging-gate toe flow. On the Community side, pluggedingolf.com's writeup is enthusiastic but personal, the reviewer note that they "picked up an old Scotty Pro Platinum Del Mar Three, and really embraced it," and other opinion on file echoes that the head felt alive rather than robotic. That's a subjective read on feel, not a claim about specification, and it stands as one user's account rather than an established fact about how the putter performs.