Del Mar 3

The Del Mar 3 exists in the record as a single release, the 1999 Pro Platinum, and its arc is really the arc of one design finding its footing before the line moved on. Scotty Cameron's own page calls it a mid-mallet built for "a lot of toe flow for the swinging gate effect," a heel/toe weighted head milled from a solid block of soft carbon steel and plated in Pro Platinum. There's no second or third generation on record here, no later refinements to chart. What we hold is the shape as it first stood.

The maker's page frames this release as more than a retail debut, noting the model "was tested on Tour and now part of the production family," which places the Del Mar 3 in that familiar Cameron pattern of Tour-first proving ground before wider release. golfheritage.org lists the release year as 2000, a year off from the 1999 date carried on Cameron's own archive page and in our release row, worth noting as a genuine discrepancy rather than something to quietly resolve one way or the other.

Community sentiment on this single release runs warm. A pluggedingolf.com writer described picking up an old Pro Platinum Del Mar 3 and said they "really embraced it," with a broader Community note describing the putter as felt alive, not robotic. That's not a verified claim about the metal or the milling, just a reaction, but it's the kind of reaction that tends to follow this particular head shape.

The following year brought the Del Mar 3.5, a related but distinct model on Cameron's own archive, heel-shafted and toe heavy where the 3 leaned on toe flow, dressed in the same Pro Platinum finish and carrying the same 4° loft, 71° lie, and 35" length. Whether that counts as the Del Mar 3's direct successor or a sibling design is a question the record leaves open, since the Del Mar 3 itself never returned for a second year on file.