Dual Balance Futura 6M

The Futura 6M Dual Balance is the counterweighted sibling of the standard 6M, and Scotty Cameron's own page is clear about where it came from: "Inspired by the success of his major-winning prototype, Scotty designed the Futura 6M Dual Balance putter to offer the enhanced stability and forgiveness only his DB models produce." The maker's page also ties the concept back to Adam Scott, with the design work described as inspired by extensive work with him. The head keeps the pop-through bar back shape with deep heel-toe weights, milled sight line, and rail alignment system in the back flange that define the Futura 6 series, but everything about this build is oriented toward a heavier, longer, more anchored-feeling stroke.

The Dual Balance treatment shows up in the numbers. This one ships at 38 inches, longer than a standard-length 6M, with a 50-gram counterweight built into the grip end of the shaft, per the maker's page. Amateurgolf.com's reporting describes the pairing as an extra 50 grams of weight added in the head and at the butt end of the shaft, working together to slow and stabilize the stroke, though that framing is the publication's own characterization rather than a maker-confirmed figure. Head material is 303 stainless steel with a 6061 aircraft aluminum face sole, loft sits at 3.5 degrees, lie at 70, and the head carries 2x20 gram heel-toe weights along with 2x20 gram external weights at this 38 inch length. It's fit with a Black Matador Midsize Dual Balance grip and offered in half-inch increments from 36 to 40 inches, with loft and lie adjustable a degree or two either way.

Against the rest of the Futura 6 line, this is the stability-first variant. Where the standard Futura 6M (as later configured in 2018) runs shorter, at 33 to 35 inches with lighter heel-toe weighting scaled to length, the Dual Balance version is built longer and heavier from the outset, with the counterweighted shaft doing the work that shorter, lighter builds leave to the stroke itself. 2ndswing.com's listing places the 6M and 6M Dual Balance together as part of a broader, cohesive Futura lineup alongside the 5CB, 5MB, 5W, 5S, and 7M, which frames this release less as a standalone experiment and more as the deliberately heavier option within a family built around interchangeable shapes and configurations.