Detour Newport 2.5

The 2008 Detour Newport 2.5 takes the familiar Newport 2.5 shape and runs it through the Detour concept: a full head split between an aluminum face and a stainless body, joined by a vibration-dampening elastomer cushion that surrounds the aluminum face. The maker's page describes the technology as Detour technology fused with conventional Newport design, and that combination is the whole point of the release, a lighter, more resonant face material paired with a heavier frame to move mass where the maker wanted it.

That mass movement shows up directly in the spec sheet. The putter carries a removable stainless steel backweight, and the maker's page lists the weighting as triangulating balance for high MOI weight distribution and increased sweet spot area. The topline is listed by the maker as a 2-degree high toe, consistent with a head built to promote the arc-shaped putting path, per scottycameron.com. Loft comes in at 4 degrees, lie at 71 degrees, with custom lie adjustment of plus or minus 2 degrees and custom lengths at 33 inches and 350 grams for right-handed builds. Retail lengths are listed as 34 and 35 inches, right-handed only.

The Santa Fe style neck and full shaft offset place this within Cameron's more traditional plumber's-neck heel-shafted geometry rather than a face-balanced Detour build, and the stepless shaft keeps the build simple above the head. Cosmetically the release leans hard into its name and color: an orange Studio Design grip, an orange shaftband, an orange headcover, and an extended orange sightline that runs straight for the first inch before curving, all maker-published details from scottycameron.com. Within the Newport 2.5 line, the Detour reads as a variant built around a specific face-and-weighting idea rather than a change to the classic shape itself, and the record here is entirely the maker's own account of it.