Napa California

The 2009 Napa California is built from a solid block of raw carbon steel and finished with a black leather grip, per Scotty Cameron's own listing for the release. It sits in the Cameron catalog as one of the classic-shape putters, the kind of head that trades on restraint rather than novelty.

Scotty Cameron's own page frames the Napa California as a design purists gravitate to for its plain, unadorned lines. Best-putter.com's review echoed that read, praising the look, roll, and feel of the putter while noting the price attached to it. The Record's broader notes on this release describe the same tension: elegant simplicity and years of quiet refinement on one side, an expensive price tag on the other.

The maker's page also lists the headcover that ships with it, genuine steer hide, embroidered with over 50,000 stitches, taking an hour to complete and crafted in the U.S. That level of detail on the accessory alone says something about where this release sits in the Napa California line, a putter built and dressed as a finished statement rather than a working prototype.