Napa

The Napa traces back to Scotty Cameron's earliest days shaping putters by hand, before there was a Titleist partnership to put them into wide production. The maker's page notes that he had made several handmade versions of the Napa over the years, but the design never reached production until that 1995 Titleist affiliation. 2ndswing.com's account of the line similarly holds that these were hand-crafted for Tour professionals prior to the Titleist deal, and identifies the Napa as the first Scotty Cameron by Titleist putter series.

The 1995 Classics Napa is the line's production debut, a heel-shafted blade with flange built for what the maker's page describes as pronounced toe flow for the most swinging gate effect. It carries a 35 inch length, 71 degree lie, and 4 degree loft, and the maker notes that Cameron continued to refine its shape for notable players on the PGA Tour. Once in production, 2ndswing.com describes it as available to everyone following the Titleist partnership, a shift from the handmade, Tour-only pieces that came before.

The 1998 Oil Can Classics Napa carries the same bones forward, a traditional heel-shafted blade with flange and pronounced toe flow, at the same 35 inch length, 71 degree lie, and 4 degree loft as its 1995 predecessor. The maker's page describes the toe flow here as delivering the most swinging gate effect among the models it names, and repeats the same refrain of Cameron constantly refining the shape for Tour players. The finish is the distinguishing mark of this release, an oil can treatment layered onto a design otherwise unchanged in its core geometry.

Beyond these two dated releases, the Napa name itself carries a story about origins. Scotty Cameron's own site, writing about a later 2006 Napa Valley headcover, recalls that when Scotty was growing up, the Napa style head shape was the putter to have as far as he was concerned, and that he worked for more than 15 years to perfect this elegant classic. Golfheritage.org, writing separately, has described collector interest in the Napa reaching toward $1,000 or more for all-original mint examples, with used pieces reported in the $300 to $500 range, and has characterized the material as soft carbon steel. Those figures belong to that publication's reporting rather than to the maker.