La Costa

The Scotty Cameron La Costa exists on our record as a single release, and its history begins and ends in one year. The Classics La Costa arrived in 1995 as part of the original run of Titleist models Scotty Cameron built in that era, a heel-shafted mallet with a plumbing hosel and toe hang built for a pronounced closing gate effect, according to the maker's own page. It carried specifications of 4 degrees of loft, 72 degrees of lie, and a length of 35 inches, all verified and corroborated.

There was no follow-on version, no later reissue carrying the La Costa name forward into subsequent years. The maker's page notes that only 3000 were made before the model was removed from the line late in 1995, which frames the La Costa less as an ongoing line and more as a brief chapter within Cameron's original seven Titleist models. The maker also notes an earlier putter, the Scottsman 947, that shared a similarly limited run and precedes this design.

As a line, then, the La Costa is defined by its scarcity as much as by its geometry. One release, one year, one specification sheet, and a production number the maker itself puts on record. Anyone tracing the arc of this name will find it doesn't arc at all so much as appear once, fully formed, and then close.