Oil Can Classics Santa Fe

The 1998 Santa Fe carries the Oil Can Classics designation, one of several finishes the model passed through as Cameron's archive tracked it year to year. The maker's page for this release describes the Santa Fe as it had been described since its 1996 launch: a Newport head with a sightline, a slightly offset neck, and more toe flow than the Newport, with the same heel-toe balancing for solid feel and performance. The one-piece milled design carries a soft heel and toe, which the maker's page credits with the head's clean look at address.

Specs on this release are held plainly: 4° of loft, 71° of lie, and a 35" length. Those numbers match what the maker's page lists for the Santa Fe going back to 1996 and forward into 1997, so the Oil Can Classics run in 1998 did not change the geometry of the head, only its finish designation for the year.

The maker's page also repeats a piece of the Santa Fe's origin that sits outside the Oil Can Classics edition itself: it was made prior to Scotty's affiliation with Titleist, and was used on Tour as the Classic 1.5. That line travels with every archived year of the Santa Fe, including this one, and it's worth noting here because it places the 1998 Oil Can Classics version within a design lineage that predates Titleist rather than as a standalone creation of that year.