Newport 2

The 1996 Newport 2 is the release that introduced the slant neck to the Newport line, a detail golfheritage.org attributes directly to this model. Where the original Newport ran with its own hosel treatment, the Newport 2 broke from it, and that neck change is the defining fact on record for this specific year.

golfheritage.org lists the head as soft carbon steel for this release, worth noting since Cameron's later Select-era Newport 2 pages describe 303 stainless steel construction, a different material entirely. That's not a contradiction so much as a sign of how far the line traveled after 1996; this entry is about the putter as it shipped that year, not the stainless, multi-material versions Cameron would build decades later.

On collector value, golfheritage.org puts a used 1996 Newport 2 at $300 to $500, with an all-original mint example said to approach $1,000 or possibly more. Those are the publication's figures, not a verified market price, and they should be read as one outlet's estimate of what this specific vintage release commands rather than an appraised fact.