Special Select
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The Record
Written from the sources it cites · machine-drafted for the Community to correctThe Special Select line, released according to golf.com in 2021, is Scotty Cameron's collection-wide refresh across eight putters, per tgw.com, spanning classic Newport, Newport 2 and Newport 2.5 blade styles alongside a refined Del Mar, a new Fastback 1.5, Squareback 2, Flowback 5 and Flowback 5.5 mid-mallet models, as golf.com reported. Rather than a single head, this is a full-line release: blades and mid-mallets alike got sleeker profiles and slightly thinner, flatter toplines, according to tgw.com, with golf.com describing the same shift simply as thinner toplines.
The engineering story tgw.com tells is one of rebalancing rather than reinvention. The outlet reported that overall head weight stayed unchanged, but heel and toe weights now make up more of that total, feeding into what it called a new performance balanced weighting system with customizable sole weights, tgw.com reported, and lighter or heavier weighting by length: shorter putters running heavier, longer putters lighter, per tgw.com. Material choices split by category, with tgw.com noting tungsten weights in the blades and stainless steel weights in the mid-mallets, all faced in 303 stainless steel and milled in the USA, according to tgw.com. Golf.com's language for the same idea was performance-balanced weighting paired with refined neck configurations and soft tri-soles, which tgw.com separately described on the blade side as a soft tri-sole design and on the mid-mallet side as a 6061 aluminum sole plate. Stock grip across the line was the Scotty Cameron Pistolini Plus, per tgw.com.
Reviewers who spent time with the line came away impressed with how it played. Hatfield at tgw.com noted that every putter in the line felt perfectly balanced during the swing, that distance control was great, and that the responsive stainless steel face let you know where you were hitting your putts. Golf.com went further in framing the line's standing, writing that the Special Select putters set the standard for what many premium putter lines strive to be, the perfect marriage of classic looks, shape, feel and renowned craftsmanship. That is two outlets, working from the same release, arriving at the same verdict: a line built on incremental balance changes that reviewers felt in hand.
Sources: scottycameron.com/archives (captured 2021) · scottycameron.com/archives (captured 2023)
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The Special Select line
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“He noted that every putter in the line felt perfectly balanced during the swing. With that improved balance, Hatfield noted that distance control was great and the responsive stainless steel face let you know where you were hitting your putts.”
“The Special Select putters set the standard for what many premium putter lines strive to be — the perfect marriage of classic looks, shape, feel and renowned craftsmanship.”
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