Studio Select Fastback 1

The 2010 Studio Select Fastback 1 is a full shaft offset blade, milled from 303 stainless steel, built to 4 degrees of loft and 71 degrees of lie. The maker's page lists custom lengths at 33, 34, and 35 inches, with custom lie adjustment of plus or minus 2 degrees, and grip options in Black or Red Studio Design or Black or Red Baby T. The 33, 34, and 35 inch length options are verified against the maker's site independently of the custom-order listing, so the standard and custom length runs match exactly.

Within its own family, the Fastback 1 sits as the base model of a line that would soon branch. The archival record for the following year shows Scotty answering demand with the Fastback 1.5, described on the maker's page as carrying "a flare neck and straight shaft" for "more toe flow than the Fastback 1," while holding the same loft, lie, and length specifications as this 2010 release. That continuity suggests the Fastback 1's geometry, straight-necked, full shaft offset, became the reference point the 1.5 was built to depart from rather than replace.

Later Fastback releases moved further still. A subsequent Select-era Fastback, per the maker's page, dropped to 3.5 degrees of loft and 70 degrees of lie and introduced a pop-up aluminum sole plate aimed at raising MOI and reworking sound and feel, a clear break from the 2010 Studio Select Fastback 1's simpler stainless build. Against that later redesign, this release reads as the plainer, earlier version of the shape, before the line went looking for extra forgiveness and a different feel underfoot.