Scotty Cameron has been designing and building putters for Titleist that look great and meet the demands of the world’s best players for decades. His latest creation is the Special Select family of putters. Special Select is a collection of eight putters created with sleek, classic shapes that touring professionals love, all milled in the USA to exact performance specs to help everyone become a better golfer on the greens. Read on as TGW takes you inside these classic, high-performance designs and puts them to the test in our exclusive review.
Titleist Scotty Cameron Special Select Putters Review
Technology
Every model in the Scotty Cameron Special Select putters line is milled from a solid block of 303 stainless steel. With its legendary soft feel and consistent sound, 303 stainless steel is the gold standard for putter materials. Cameron chose to make the Special Select putters from this material to bring this signature line of golf clubs back to its roots of solid sound and feel with classic looks.
After choosing the right material to make these putters from, Cameron focused on creating every Special Select model with attention to Tour-preferred profiles. These putters are made with sleeker profiles and slightly thinner, flatter toplines preferred by golfers on professional tours. The Special Select putters maintain a traditional sleek shape and feature refinements to the height of the face, hosel, neck, and flanges to fine-tune sound, performance, and setup.
Cameron’s Special Select putters feature a new performance balanced weighting system as well. Customizable weights in the sole tune each putter’s performance and feel to each specific length of the golf club. The overall weights of the head are unchanged but the heel and toe weights now make up more of that weight. Tungsten weights are used in the blades and stainless steel weights are used in the mid-mallets. Shorter putters have heavier weights while longer putters have lighter weights to properly balance performance. More weight in the heel and toe of each putter creates a larger sweet spot and makes the putters more stable on off-center strikes.
The soles of the Special Select putters have been redesigned as well. Each blade model is made with what Scotty Cameron calls the soft tri-sole design. This sole shape helps the putter ground itself properly to give golfers the proper setup at address from the moment the putter is placed behind the ball. The mid-mallet models feature a 6061 aluminum sole plate instead of the tri-sole design to further enhance the proper weighting of each putter.
Who It’s For
The Titleist Scotty Cameron Special Select putters are designed for golfers who would consider themselves a putter connoisseur. Golfers who put a premium on high-quality craftsmanship and attention to detail will love this line of putters. Additionally, players who like a classic look and time-tested performance, sound, and feel will enjoy the new Special Select putters.
Performance
We tested the performance of the Scotty Cameron Special Select putters with the help of Rick Hatfield, head golf pro at Flint Hills National Golf Club and TGW’s resident product expert. 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.
Appearance
The Special Select putters are incredibly pleasing to the eye as is tradition with Scotty Cameron putters. They sit nice and square at address. Sleeker lines and classic construction make these golf clubs aesthetically pleasing to match their signature performance.
Feel & Sound
Just like other Scotty Cameron putter designs for Titleist, the Special Select line feels very solid. You can feel when you hit the sweet spot or hit out on the heel or in on the toe. They feel very responsive and provide great feedback on your putts. Compared to previous models that featured an aluminum face, the stainless steel milled face feels softer and provides more response and feedback with every swing.
Titleist Scotty Cameron Select Putters Specs
Stock Grip: Scotty Cameron Pistolini Plus combines the Pistolini shape with a less tapered lower hand for improved feel and performance
The Titleist Scotty Cameron Special Select putters are available in eight different models featuring a variety of blades and mid-mallet shapes. They are available and shipping to your door right now at TGW.com.
