Studio Select Fastback 1.5

The Studio Select Fastback 1.5 arrived in 2009 as the follow-up to the Fastback 1, according to golfshake.com, which describes it as a modified Newport-style mid mallet with a rounded back flange. The publication lists a right hand only run and puts its availability date at November 1st 2009, with pricing still to be confirmed at the time of that report.

Scotty Cameron's own archive page for the Fastback 1.5 fills in the design story: "Due to overwhelming demand from the worlds best players, Scotty created the Fastback 1.5. With a flare neck and straight shaft, the Fastback 1.5 offers more toe flow than the Fastback 1 giving players a clean look at address and a perfectly balanced feel throughout the putting stroke." The maker's page also holds that it "maintains the same headweight as other Studio Select models, but it has a slightly thicker topline," and carries the line's signature Cherry Dot graphics on a precision milled 303 stainless steel head with factory interchangeable weights.

Worth noting: the neck description isn't consistent across sources. Golfshake's report characterizes the neck as a "flow neck with a half shaft offset," while the maker's own page describes a "flare neck and straight shaft" and lists offset as 3/4 in its specification block. Both accounts agree the putter builds on the Fastback 1 with more toe flow, but a reader comparing the two should treat the neck and offset figures as disputed rather than settled.

Within the line, the 2009 Fastback 1.5 sits as the direct answer to the Fastback 1, aimed at the toe-flow and balance preferences golfshake attributes to tour demand, and it predates the later Select-era Fastback that Cameron's page describes as a separate, ground-up redesign built around a pop-up aluminum sole plate and crisscross alignment aid. The 1.5 belongs to the earlier Studio Select generation, not that later reworking.