Futura

The Futura line begins in 2003, and the maker's own history notes it was in the prototype stage for years before it finally made its way into production. The early Futura carried a 6061 aluminum and 303 stainless steel head, with two plugs milled into the back of the face, and the maker's page describes a design where the ball rolls immediately off the face without ever digging into the green. Golfreview.com called it beautiful, and said it had been wanted since first seeing one in 2004, calling it the best golf investment made. Best-putter.com described it as the first of the truly futuristic putters, and about as attractive as they were ever going to be. A year later, in 2004, the Futura Long arrived, a 48 inch model with a round, red Baby T grip and red sightlines running the length of the body. Golfreview.com's take on the original design was mixed in its own way: outstanding, if a little out there in looks and a little light in feel, but a great putter all the same.

The line goes quiet in our release rows until 2017, when Titleist relaunched Futura as a full family of mallets. The maker's own announcement describes seven high performance mallet-style models, spanning from rounded mid-mallets to high-tech, high-MOI larger mallets, and states plainly that the 2017 Futura family melds the best design characteristics of the previous generation GOLO and Futura X lines with continued innovation in multi-material construction. That family included the 5CB, 5MB, 5W, 5S, 6M and 6M Dual Balance, and 7M. The 5W carried a full wrap-around multi-material face-sole and a modern wingback shape per the maker's page, and Golf Monthly praised its super-soft feel, stability, and alignment assistance, while flagging the price tag as a possible stumbling block and the split headcover design as a touch fiddly. The 5S, built on a pop-through bar back design and nearly face-balanced without bending the shaft according to the maker, drew praise from scotty-cameron-putter-reviews.blogspot.com for setting up beautifully at address with helpful visual cues and a soft but solid feel. The 7M, per the maker, improves upon the Futura X7M and shares its shape with the 5S in a larger size.

Alongside the numbered 2017 lineup sit the X-series releases, X5, X7, and X7M, along with an X7M Dual Balance. Golfballs.com's review of the X7 called the head shape confidence inspiring with a generous sweet spot and buttery soft feel at impact, but added that anyone already playing an X5 with good results probably won't feel the need to rush out for an upgrade, though those new to Scotty Cameron might find it worth discovering. The same publication offered nearly identical language on the X7M, again praising the confidence inspiring shape and added MOI stability while making the same case that existing X5 owners may not see a significant upgrade. Phoenixputterco.com's read on the X5 leaned positive, noting that even a golfer with a slight arc to his stroke can prefer the stability of a face balanced design, a point the reviewer used to illustrate that personal preference and confidence matter as much as technical fitting guidelines.

Across two decades of release rows, the Futura name has stretched from a single prototype-turned-production putter in 2003 to a full architecture of mallets by 2017, with the X-series running in parallel and drawing its own comparisons back to the 5-series shapes. What ties the eras together in the maker's own language is a persistent emphasis on weight distribution, from the horseshoe weighting described in the original Futura to the heel-and-toe sole weighting technology cited across the 2017 family.