Studio Style Fastback

The 2025 Studio Style Fastback is Scotty Cameron's current-generation take on the compact mid-mallet, built around a 303 stainless steel head with a precision milled 6061 aircraft grade aluminum sole plate, as the maker's page describes it. That sole plate carries a black anodized aluminum heel-toe inlay, which the maker lists as a new alignment aid meant to enhance both alignment and MOI. The face uses a Studio Carbon Steel insert with chain-link face milling, and the maker's page notes the insert is finished with electroless nickel plating for added durability while preserving the soft sound and feel associated with carbon steel. Cameron's page describes the redesigned Fastback and Squareback as perimeter-weighted for forgiveness and stability, positioning this head as a mallet companion to the shorter, rounder Newport shape.

Spec-wise, the putter carries 3.5 degrees of loft, 70 degrees of lie, a jet-neck with a stepless steel shaft bent once at mid, and near-face balance. It ships in 33, 34, and 35 inch lengths with half-inch custom length options, and the maker lists weights of 2x20 grams at 33 inches, 2x15 grams at 34 inches, and 2x10 grams at 35 inches. The grip is the Full Contact Slim, and the maker's custom shop can add a specialty grip, headcover, stamp, paintfill, shaft band, or sight line beyond the stock build.

Reviewers are split on how the changes land. Outtabounds.co.uk called the Fastback and Squareback particularly interesting for golfers who want a more forgiving head that still looks compact and tidy behind the ball, and justsaygolf.com praised the usual quality and attractive looks associated with the Cameron name. Pluggedingolf.com took the opposite view, liking the top line sight line but calling the overall look a miss, wanting something more timeless given the Cameron premium. Theclubhouse.blog reported a similar reversal in their own use, saying their opinion of the Fastback 1.5 soured the more they played it, which they described as a real surprise. Community opinion elsewhere has flagged the head as heavier and less easy to stroke smoothly, alongside praise for its tidiness at address, so the record here shows a genuine split rather than a consensus read on this release.