Del Mar

The Del Mar name goes back to 1995, Scotty Cameron's first year with Titleist, when the maker's own archive notes that "all the putters in this year were named after California towns" and this one for the seaside town near Scotty's home. That original Classics Del Mar was a face-balanced mallet, and the maker's page credits it as part of what made "the first year of the Scotty Cameron/ Titleist partnership so successful." risingsunclubs.com.au echoes that read decades later, calling it a design for golfers who prefer "a face-balanced mallet design with classic aesthetics." The lie spec on that original head is itself unsettled in the record, with the maker's page giving 72° in one capture and 71° in another.

By 1998 and 1999 the line had shifted into the Teryllium era with the Del Mar 2 and Del Mar 2 Mid Slant, described on the maker's own pages as heel/toe weighted, mid-mallet designs running a Newport hosel for toe flow, with a 12-metal Teryllium inlay meant to deliver a soft, solid feel. A plain Del Mar and a Del Mar 3 also sit in the record without full maker detail, and both are singled out by golfheritage.org as putters that, alongside the Catalina, Coronado, and Laguna, "attract the least interest from collectors," a judgment repeated for both entries. tipitout.com, working from the same-era Del Mar, saw it differently in use, describing a high-toe mid-mallet with strategically placed bottom weights and calling it a putter "designed for ultimate control and distance handling."

The name resurfaced in the California era. golfshake.com covered a 2009 Cameron California Del Mar with a Honey Dipped bronze finish and a heel-shafted, toe-heavy mid-mallet build, offered in both hands. The 2010 California Del Mar that followed is well documented on the maker's own specs, a stainless steel, Pistolero-gripped putter in a Sea Mist finish available in 33, 34, and 35 inch lengths for both right and left hand. scotty-cameron-putter-reviews.blogspot.com called it "a unique and breathtaking spin on a legendary performer," while flagging that it's now discontinued and priced accordingly for collectors chasing it down.

The Special Select era brought the Del Mar back again in 2020 and 2022, with the maker's pages describing a modern heel-shafted compact mallet carrying Tour-inspired "cherry rings" and a mid-milled face machined to depth for the line, refined further by 2022 with concave flange contours and customizable sole weights. Reception to the 2020 version split along familiar lines: pluggedingolf.com praised the feel outright while calling it "not the most aesthetically pleasing version of this putter," and 2ndswing.com found that the larger head "seemed to mute some of the sound and vibrations" typical of smaller heads. A Super Select Del Mar rounds out the line on record, built with dual-milled face technology and a Pistolero Plus grip, part of what golfmonthly.com described as a second drop that May.