Teryllium TeI3

The Teryllium TeI3 shipped in 1997 with polished black heads and what drivingrangeheroes.com describes as shiny coppery face inserts, a combination that set it apart visually from the milled steel putters Cameron was known for. youtube.com puts the model's run at 1997 to 2001, though the 1997 release is the one carrying the weight of history here.

That weight comes from a single event: youtube.com reports the TeI3 was made legendary by Tiger Woods' 1997 Masters victory, and calls it Tiger's 1st Masters Putter. Whatever the mechanics of the Teryllium insert did for feel, it's that association that youtube.com credits with making the TeI3, in its words, the most wanted Cameron model. That's one outlet's framing of the putter's reputation, not a figure anyone has verified, but it's the reputation the TeI3 carries into any conversation about it.

On feel, the record is thin but consistent in tone. drivingrangeheroes.com's take, that these putters weren't just beautiful, but they felt amazing too, lines up with the general praise held for the model: beautiful, felt amazing. No dissent shows up in what we hold, only the one voice saying it twice, in slightly different words, across two entries.

Against the rest of the TeI line, the TeI3's identity here is inseparable from the 1997 Masters. The coppery insert and black finish are the physical details on record, but the reason collectors and reviewers reach for this particular release is the one the videos keep repeating, not the milling.