Newport Mid Slant

The record holds a single release in this line: the 1999 Pro Platinum Newport Mid Slant, and there is no further generational spread to trace here. What the maker's own page describes is a variation on an established idea rather than a new one. Scotty Cameron took the Classic Newport head, already a known quantity, and reworked its neck, the page's own words are that he was "taking the Classic Newport head and adding a slant neck for a sleeker, less obstructed view of the ball." The change was structural rather than cosmetic: removing the elbow of the plumber's neck to open up the golfer's view at address, while a sightline on the flange kept alignment honest.

That 1999 release paired the new slant neck with the Pro Platinum finish, described on the maker's page as "widely accepted on Tour for its crisp, precise feel and feedback." The maker's page also credits the design with retaining "the optimal 1/4 toe hang" even after the neck was changed, meaning the geometry that governed the putter's feel and rotation was preserved despite the visible redesign. That detail, toe hang held steady across a neck change, is the throughline the record shows for this single entry: a putter meant to look and address differently without asking the golfer to relearn how it moves.

With only the one row on file, the "line" as we hold it is really a single moment, 1999, rather than an arc across years. What's here is complete on its own terms: a Classic Newport head, a slant neck engineered to preserve toe hang, a Pro Platinum finish, and the specifications that shipped with it. Whatever came before or after in Cameron's broader Newport story sits outside what this record currently carries for the Mid Slant name itself.