Scotty Cameron: The next model he should build

[Shorty]

Most pros on tour use blade irons, so should Titleist only produce blades?

I know that you are illustrating a point, but this is not true. Most pros on tour do not use blades.

[Shanks A Million]

Most pros on tour use blade irons, so should Titleist only produce blades? Most pros also have X-stiff shafts in their clubs, so should Titleist completely do away with regular and stiff-flex shafts?

Where did you get this information? Most tour players use cavity backs, a large number use hybrids, and many use stiff shafts.

[iacas]

Where did you get this information? Most tour players use cavity backs, a large number use hybrids, and many use stiff shafts.

Topic isn't irons on Tour, guys.

[Shorty]

Topic isn't irons on Tour, guys.

OK. Fair enough.

The next putter Cameron should create is a basic Anser type that is dark in colour so as not to burn the retinas of users. I have disposed of more than one putter because the topline was too shiny.

[msd3075]

I know that you are illustrating a point, but this is not true. Most pros on tour do not use blades.

Where did you get this information? Most tour players use cavity backs, a large number use hybrids, and many use stiff shafts.

It was meant to illustrate a point, not to be "factual". I was trying to say that what we play doesn't have to be what the tour players or even scratch golfers play. Scotty Cameron is in business to sell putters, NOT to cater to tour players. Yes, his business got it's start by catering to tour pros almost exclusively, but today he makes his money selling putters to well-to-do recreational golfers of all abilities. To not make putters for the 15+ handicap golfer would be a horrible business move seeing as so many country club folk with more money than they know what to do with will buy a Scotty Cameron over anything else in a heartbeat.

[Shanks A Million]

It was meant to illustrate a point, not to be "factual". I was trying to say that what we play doesn't have to be what the tour players or even scratch golfers play. Scotty Cameron is in business to sell putters, NOT to cater to tour players. Yes, his business got it's start by catering to tour pros almost exclusively, but today he makes his money selling putters to well-to-do recreational golfers of all abilities. To not make putters for the 15+ handicap golfer would be a horrible business move seeing as so many country club folk with more money than they know what to do with will buy a Scotty Cameron over anything else in a heartbeat.

I am certainly not implying that he should make only blade putters (I don't care what he makes), I'm just implying that not all tour players play blades. If Scotty Cameron wants to make a putter shaped like a toilet, then he should go for it. Bottom line. His putters aren't quite to my taste (my Lynx is a black Zing style, which I like). I have a Dynacraft putter that is pretty much a Scotty Cameron with another name on it. It's milled from soft stainless steel, with a blued steel face insert type of thing.

But it's just a traditional milled face like a Cameron. But the center of the face is a softer black (blued steel). It has a plumber neck hosel. It's just like a Cameron, it rolls the ball perfectly, and it's very imperative to hit the center of the face. Do I like it? Well, sort of. It's good practice, that's for sure, but I would say if anything, Cameron needs to make a putter that's more forgiving. From what I've heard, the Camerons are not very forgiving at all. Perhaps that would expand his market?

[Shorty]

From what I've heard, the Camerons are not very forgiving at all. Perhaps that would expand his market?

I don't think he needs to expand his market. There are enough people who seem to believe that there is something special about these putters, because lots of pros use them. Lots of pros use Ping, Odyssey, NC, YES, etc. They are all essentially the same. The off the rack SC putters are exactly the same as all other "brand name" putters, but if people like them, good for them. I personally do not like any of the OTR ones. I have seen some very nice 009 ones, a bit they are not in my price range. Even so, they are no different from an Odyssey or Ping milled putter. Just a nicer finish.

[Shanks A Million]

Even so, they are no different from an Odyssey or Ping milled putter. Just a nicer finish.

Not entirely true, or so I've been told. The Camerons are meticulously balanced and are made to much tighter tolerances, as well as (again, I've been told) a softer steel or something to that degree.

[ScottyCameron]

Id like to see Scotty make a putter with a teryllium insert...

[Shorty]

Not entirely true, or so I've been told. The Camerons are meticulously balanced and are made to much tighter tolerances, as well as (again, I've been told) a softer steel or something to that degree.

You've been told something incorrect. This may be true with the putters made for tour players, but no more so than other top brands. As for steel? It's the same. The GSS (German Stainless Steel) thing has got to be the most insane nonsense ever to have been perpetrated on the golfing public. But, predictably, they went along with it, just like the "Tour use only" marketing brilliance which makes putter covers "desirable". I know that this is against the spirit of this thread, but honestly, why is it, that when someone buys a mass produced SC putter, they behave as if they have entered some exclusive club? If you like a putter great, but there is absolutely nothing special or unique about an OTR SC putter.

[ET-Taylor]

You've been told something incorrect. This may be true with the putters made for tour players, but no more so than other top brands. As for steel? It's the same. The GSS (German Stainless Steel) thing has got to be the most insane nonsense ever to have been perpetrated on the golfing public. But, predictably, they went along with it, just like the "Tour use only" marketing brilliance which makes putter covers "desirable". I know that this is against the spirit of this thread, but honestly, why is it, that when someone buys a mass produced SC putter, they behave as if they have entered some exclusive club? If you like a putter great, but there is absolutely nothing special or unique about an OTR SC putter.

I agree just because it says Scotty Cameron it wont automatically make you putt like tiger

[Shanks A Million]

You've been told something incorrect. This may be true with the putters made for tour players, but no more so than other top brands. As for steel? It's the same. The GSS (German Stainless Steel) thing has got to be the most insane nonsense ever to have been perpetrated on the golfing public. But, predictably, they went along with it, just like the "Tour use only" marketing brilliance which makes putter covers "desirable". I know that this is against the spirit of this thread, but honestly, why is it, that when someone buys a mass produced SC putter, they behave as if they have entered some exclusive club? If you like a putter great, but there is absolutely nothing special or unique about an OTR SC putter.

Well, I can't say I ever found anything special about a Scotty Cameron, off the rack or otherwise. I guess your feelings here are similar to mine about delofting and making claims about your 6 iron "hitting it farther than the old one, thanks to the new technology." Golfers will believe anything in my experience.

A putter is a putter, and whatever does the trick is the putter that goes in my bag. My Lynx belonged to my father when he used to play, so it has special meaning to me. When I first took the game back up as an adult, I used my father's clubs, and his putter was the one I practiced with. Now, it seems like no other putter instills the same confidence.

[Elvisliveson]

I love to putt, it's my favorite part of the game (tied with driving). Therefore I choose to use a high-end putter rather than a garage sale find; it's just too important to me. However, a high-end putter is a high-end putter, be it Scotty, Bettinardi, Odyssey Black or Ping Redwood. If you have a style preference that usually decides who you go with and for me that's the Scotty. I started playing golf in the 1970s when pretty much all there were classic blades, rudimentary heel-toe weighted and small, low moi mallet putters and I simply love the way Scotty has interpreted those.

[wolverine_man]

I agree just because it says Scotty Cameron it wont automatically make you putt like tiger

I agree. I can't tell you the number of times I've been paired up with golfers who are horrible putters and use a Scotty. They'd be much better off investing that $300 in some golf lessons.

[DavidFehertysBike]

He should make that starship enterprise putter i see at golf galaxy. But the next generation enterprise. Scotty wouldnt be able to mill them fast enough.

[msd3075]

He should make that starship enterprise putter i see at golf galaxy. But the next generation enterprise. Scotty wouldnt be able to mill them fast enough.

It's called the Kombi........

[DavidFehertysBike]

It's called the Kombi........

ooooh yeah......thats right.