2017 Futura

The 2017 Futura release brought seven models to shops beginning March 17: the Futura 5CB, 5MB, 5W, 5S, 6M, 6M Dual Balance, and 7M. On the record, the line runs from rounded mid-mallets to high-tech, high-MOI larger mallets, a spread meant to cover mallet players at more than one point on the stability-versus-feel spectrum rather than a single head shape. The maker's page frames this as a merger of ideas, pulling the best design characteristics of the previous generation GOLO and Futura X lines into one cohesive family built around Scotty Cameron's multi-material putter construction.

Cameron himself ties the release back to the brand's history with the shape, saying "Fans of the brand may remember the original Futura putter released over a dozen years ago, which was viewed as an experime" in the maker's own release copy, positioning 2017 as a return to and expansion of that original idea rather than a clean break from it. He describes the multi-material approach as what let him design "properly-weighted larger putter heads for more stable setups to give mallet players more confidence over putts."

The maker's page lists an MSRP of $410 for this release. Within the Futura line, the 2017 edition stands as the broad seven-model relaunch, the foundation onto which later additions such as the Futura 5.5M would be grafted the same year.