While 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of Titleist’s legendary Pro V1 golf ball, savvy gearheads will remember 2025 also marks 20 years since the introduction of Scotty Cameron’s original Studio Style putter line.
To mark that anniversary, Cameron is releasing a new 2025 putter line that borrows the throwback name while adding modern touches of technology and refinement.
“The new Studio Style putters offer the most significant re-design of our blade line in years,” Scotty Cameron said in a release. “While the name is a throwback, the technology, design and manufacturing methods are modern and brand new.”
Here are four things to know about the new 2025 Scotty Cameron Studio Style putters.
1. Going back to inserts
Since the original Studio Style release in 2005, the only Scotty Cameron retail putter to feature milled inserts was the Select line, which included milling in 2016 and the line’s update in 2018. The 2005 Studio line — which ran until 2007 — was also the last to feature German Stainless Steel (GSS) in a production model, the same material Tiger Woods’ famous Newport 2 is crafted from.
When drawing up the newest Studio Style line, Cameron wanted to create the same soft feel the GSS putters were known for, so he looked through all previous production materials.
“We wanted to bring that vibe, that brand essence that people feel in love with back with the original Studio Style design, but brining new modern technology to really tune the sound, feel and performance of these putters,” Cameron’s right-hand man, senior director of putter R&D Austie Rollinson, told GOLF. “We looked at a bunch of different metals. Stuff that Scotty had used in the past like SSS (Surgical Stainless Steel), GSS, Teryllium and aluminum.
“We settled on carbon steel because it’s got a lot of history in the Scotty Cameron brand, and in golf in general of having a nice, soft, muted feedback, but responsiveness as well.”
The newest incarnation of the Studio Style name features Studio Carbon Steel (SCS) inserts, which Rollinson said has a greater dampening capacity than any of the metals Cameron has used before.
“As soon as we tried it in an insert, we knew we had something special,” he said.
To eliminate the corrosion typical of carbon steel putters, the carbon steel inserts go through an electroless nickel plating process that prevents rusting and increases durability, while maintaining the soft feel.
2. Chain-link milling technology
Perhaps the most eye-catching feature of the new SCS inserts is the chain-link milling pattern.
The chain-link pattern is an old trick of the Cameron brand. The same pattern on the face of the Studio Style putters was present in the new grips for the Phantom mallet line last year.
Using the pattern on the face, Cameron called the chain-link mill pattern similar to the deep mill pattern in that it achieves a soft feel and dampens sound, but is more elegant.
“It’s that surface that’s going to impact with the ball that gives you that level of sound,” Rollinson said. “The chain-link removes about 50 percent of the material that the ball sees so that’s going to lower the volume of that impact, but still have that metallic sound. And we wanted to do it in a very elegant way so this chain-link pattern really gives it an industrial look.”
The pattern also tunes the speeds of the ball coming off the face so players can relate speed and sound to improve distance control.
3. New mid-mallet shapes, with surprising look
While most of the 12 models coming to retail in the new Studio Style line are familiar shapes to Cameron fanatics such as the Newport and Newport 2, Scotty’s Squareback and Fastback shapes are unrecognizable compared to the previous versions.
“We also completely re-designed the mid-mallets with new high-contrast alignment and stability to give both blade and mallet players new high-performance options,” Cameron said.
The new mid-mallets feature a “ring-weighted,” or perimeter-weighted build, using pieces of 6061 aircraft aluminum to extend the size of the putters and create a window through the flange of the putter. The aluminum is a contrasting dark color to the 303 stainless steel body to create an alignment aid.
“We really wanted to keep weighting in the perimeter to expand the footprint, so that’s why it has a little hole in it to get ring-weighting, get the inertia up on these,” Rollinson said. “Then there’s the contrasting between the steel and aluminum to really highlight that front blade and the rear blade to help with alignment.
“We realized that there are some players who align with features that go from the face to the back… But a lot of them use the perpendicular lines of the design itself. The front and the back edge to really help to align and that’s what we tried to focus on with these new designs.”
If the contrasting design looks familiar, keep in mind that Rollinson was once one of Cameron’s main competitors as the chief designer at Odyssey. After three decades with the competitors, Rollinson moved over to Cameron’s team three years ago.
Both the Squareback 2 and Fastback will also be available in Long Design counterbalance options.
4. 12 total models
The bread and butter of any Scotty Cameron blade line starts with the Newport and Newport 2 shapes, which return to anchor the lineups with the new face technology. I-beam necks and adjustable tungsten sole weights return from previous generations, while the Newport 2’s angular contours and tri-sole have been refined. The topline has also been thickened.
Returning from the Super Select line is the Newport+, Newport 2+ and Newport 2.5+, which are wider body versions of originals. These putters use an aluminum sole plate to increase perimeter weighting and forgiveness. The Newport 2.5+ features the angular head shape of the Newport 2+, but with a jet neck for increased toe flow. Rollinson said the addition of these shapes captured players typically looking for a wide-body blade like the previous Squareback.
The Squareback shape will come in three different configurations: The single-bend Squareback, the plumber’s neck Squareback 2 and the Squareback 2 Long Design. The Long Design option will feature a 38-inch stiffer shaft, heavier sole weights and a 135-gram pistol-style grip.
The rounder Fastback will also come in three configurations: the single-bend Fastback; the Fastback 1.5, which has a toe-flow-promoting jet neck; and The Fastback Long Design, which will feature a single-bend shaft with the same specs as the Squareback 2 Long Design.
Finally, the Catalina is a shape many Cameron fans know and love. The famed putter has only been available in a small number of limited releases since the late 90s. Now Cameron is bringing the putter back to the retail lineup as a wide-body blade featuring a modern single-bend shaft for a near-face-balanced blade putter.
Additionally, the Newport 2, Newport 2.5 Plus, Fastback 1.5 and Catalina will be available for left-handers.
All models will come with a new Full Contact Slim paddle-style grip that features the chain-link texture. All models also include Scotty’s iconic 7 Point Crown engraved on the face with red milled cherry bombs in the cavity.
Price and Availability
Scotty Cameron Studio Style putters will be available for pre-order starting on Feb. 25 and arrive in golf shops starting on March 14.
Standard configuration putters will retail for $499 while the Long Design models will cost $549.
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