Select Newport

The 2012 Select Newport is Scotty Cameron's take on the iconic three-step Newport shape, built in 303 stainless steel and carrying the four-way balanced precision milling that runs through the line. The signature move here is graphic: the three red dot theme is extended to the face heel and sole, and the face inlays wrap around the sole in a way that disappears from view at address. It ships with a Matador Midsize 11 inch grip, full shaft offset, and a 4 degree loft with 71 degree lie, per scottycameron.com, with custom loft adjustable -1 to +1 degree and lie adjustable within the range the maker's page lists as +/-2 degrees.

Where the record gets interesting is in the small discrepancies between the maker's own sourcing on loft and lie. Scotty Cameron's own listings put loft at both 4 degrees and 3.5 degrees depending on the page, and lie variously at 70 degrees and 71 degrees across maker-published sources. scottycameron.com settles on 4 degrees and 71 degrees, but the coexistence of the 3.5/70 figures elsewhere in Scotty Cameron's own material means this one is worth double checking against the specific head in hand rather than assuming a single number. Length runs the standard 33, 34, and 35 inch options, with weighting scaled by length: 2x20 grams at 33 inches, 2x15 grams at 34 inches, and 2x10 grams at 35 inches.

golf-info-guide.com's review describes the head as a blade finished in what it calls a soft Silver Mist finish, with a face plate it terms precision milled stainless steel, and reports the putter as absent of sight lines or dots, standard, though customizable. That same review lists loft and lie at 3 degrees and 70 degrees respectively, figures that sit outside the maker-published spread noted above, so the two should be read as separate readings rather than reconciled into one number.