2020 Special Select Flowback 5

The 2020 Special Select Flowback 5 sits in the mid-mallet corner of Scotty Cameron's Special Select family, released the same year as its 5.5 sibling. The maker's page lists the category as a mid-mallet model with a fully milled, insert-free face, and the shape carries what the maker's page calls prominent flanges behind the clubhead that aid alignment along with slightly more mass on the toe side. That toe bias is a defining trait of the Flowback 5 specifically, since golfdiscount.com's writeup of the related 5.5 describes a near-face balanced setup with limited toe flow, a more mechanical, straighter-back stroke than the sweeping arc you'd expect from a mid-mallet.

On record from the maker's own Putter of the Day feature for February 7th, 2020, this particular Flowback 5 carried a translucent blue, white, and black paintfill, W.N. and Tank stamps, 2x10g weights, a Jackpot Johnny grip, and a 2019 Limited Turf Wars mid-mallet headcover, giving a concrete sense of how a Custom Shop example of this release could be dressed out.

Reviewers who've spent time with the head are generally receptive to the design choices. One Community note credits the prominent flanges with helping alignment and the extra toe mass with helping toe misses, while 2ndswing.com's reviewer put it plainly: "The Flowback clubhead appealed to me a bit more than I expected it would." Against the rest of the Special Select line, the Flowback 5 reads as the more restrained, face-balanced option, distinct from the 5.5's slantback neck and higher toe flow that golfdiscount.com and the maker's own page associate with that companion model.