Special Select Flowback 5

The Special Select Flowback 5 is Scotty Cameron's mid-mallet entry in the Special Select family, a curvy design that the maker's page lists as a mid-mallet performer built around a mid-bend shaft configuration. Its lineage runs through the GOLO 5, according to the maker, and it sits on Cameron's site as a predecessor to the current Super Select line, with Scotty Cameron's own site listing "Super Select" as its direct successor.

The head is built from a solid milled stainless steel body, per the maker's page, with an integrated 6061 aluminum sole plate and stainless steel weights handling the weighting duties. Carlsgolfland's listing puts loft at 3.5 degrees and lie at 70 degrees, with a Pistolini Plus grip and RH-only availability. Toe hang is where the sources pull in different directions: the maker's own page describes a near-face balanced setup meant to limit toe flow, while Carlsgolfland separately lists both "little toe flow" and "Medium" for the same putter, so treat the exact number as unsettled even though the direction, a mid-mallet built for less toe rotation than a heel-shafted blade, is consistent across the record. The back sits on a signature three red dot pattern with a recessed, polished milled circular channel, a detail the maker's page and Planet Golf Miami's write-up both describe in nearly identical language.

Finish work is where the personality shows. The maker's page notes a hand-applied red translucent paint as a finish detail on this model, and the wider Special Select catalog copy that Cameron uses elsewhere in the family, tour-inspired shapes with sleeker profiles and flatter toplines per Carlsgolfland, tracks with what's held here. Within its own family, the Flowback 5 sits alongside the Flowback 5.5, which the maker's page describes as sharing "the same refined, classically rounded profile as its Flowback 5 partner" but built with a different slantback neck for more toe flow and closer to a full shaft of offset. The 5, by contrast, is the one built for a more neutral stroke.