Phantom X 6 STR

The Phantom X 6 STR has carried its name through two releases, first in 2019 and again in 2021, both housed within the broader Phantom X mallet line. Golfalot's coverage of the 2019 release described a putter built with zero offset and a straight shaft, finished in a misted black finish with a three-dot theme in the back cavity picked out in neon yellow paintfill. As golfalot summarized it, "Constructed with zero offset, the STR produces face balanced performance with a clean and minimalist look at address."

By the time of the 2021 release, the model's identity as the straight-shaft, face-balanced answer within the Phantom X family was fully articulated in Scotty Cameron's own words. The maker's page frames the 6 STR as a deliberate variant of the Phantom X 6: "With the face balanced 6 STR, I went with a straight shaft setup for golfers who really want to create a straight-back-straight-through putting stroke. It has all of the racy good looks of the Phantom X 6, just without offset and a straight shaft." That same page lays out the head in 303 stainless steel with a solid 6061 aircraft aluminum face, offered in 33, 34, and 35 inch lengths with a Pistolero Plus grip, and custom options running -1º to +1º of loft and -2º to +2º of lie, alongside half-inch length adjustments.

Across its two releases, the line reads as a consistent proposition rather than a reinvention: a face-balanced, zero-offset mallet built around straight shaft technology for players seeking a straight-back-straight-through stroke, dressed in the Phantom X family's alignment work and finish. What changes between 2019 and 2021 in the record is less the concept than the level of detail on hand, moving from a third party's description of the putter's look and feel to the maker's own specification and quoted rationale for why the 6 STR exists at all within the Phantom X range.