Futura

The Futura line, as our record holds it, arrives on this site in its 2017 form: a lineup Titleist described as rounded mid-mallets to high-tech, high-MOI larger mallets. That range is the point of the entry. Rather than a single head, the 2017 Futura gathers the family under one name, spanning shapes from the more compact 5-series bodies up through the larger, more technical mallets, all built around the same design philosophy of stability and forgiveness.

Scotty Cameron's own framing of the release points backward as well as forward. The maker's page notes that the new line melds the best design characteristics of the previous generation GOLO and Futura X lines with Scotty Cameron's continued innovation in multi-material putter constructions, and Cameron himself is quoted saying fans of the brand may remember the original Futura putter released over a dozen years ago, which was viewed as an experime. That's as far as the quote runs in what we hold, but it's enough to place the 2017 Futura as a stated continuation of a longer design lineage rather than a clean break.

Within the 2017 generation, Cameron later added to the family: the Futura 5.5M, introduced as a high-MOI mallet with enhanced toe flow, aimed at players who wanted a smaller, more easily aligned mallet that still promoted the arced stroke associated with blade putters. Cameron's account traces its origin to a specific request from Justin Thomas, who wanted "a smaller mallet that he could align easily, but one that also promoted the arced putting stroke he preferred," a prototype built by welding a flare neck to a Futura X5 Tour putter.

The maker's page lists the 2017 Futura at $410. As our record stands, this single entry marks the line's documented arc, a 2017 family built to widen the Futura name across a spread of mallet shapes, with the 5.5M standing as evidence that the lineup kept growing after its initial launch.