Sats
Challenge Tour Pro
If I was going to buy a scotty, these wouldn't be on my list.
New Scotty Range
- Thread starter HomerJSimpson
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Wolf
Well-known member
Never really been a Scotty fan and these make me like them even less.
Cost of putters is fast getting up there with drivers and I wonder if like in most things they've all done pretty much everything that's physically possible to make them better so now we're in a place where it's a case of designing new kit for sake of it
Cost of putters is fast getting up there with drivers and I wonder if like in most things they've all done pretty much everything that's physically possible to make them better so now we're in a place where it's a case of designing new kit for sake of it
mhwgc
Assistant Pro
I'm a big Scotty fan but have always preferred his earlier stuff. The modern Select Newports are OK but to me they're basically just slightly newer versions of what he's been producing for a number of years now. These just seem to be an updated version of some of the recent mallets but I'm sure they'll prove to be popular and he's almost certainly had some input from the Tour players, which I'm sure will appeal to potential buyers.
What can't be faulted is the quality of the putters and the materials he uses. I have no issue with the costs as you basically get what you pay for and lets face it, if you're happy to pay £450 for a new driver which you might use about 10 times a round, surely a similarly priced putter which you'll use 25-30+ times a round makes good sense.
What can't be faulted is the quality of the putters and the materials he uses. I have no issue with the costs as you basically get what you pay for and lets face it, if you're happy to pay £450 for a new driver which you might use about 10 times a round, surely a similarly priced putter which you'll use 25-30+ times a round makes good sense.
KenL
Tour Rookie
Horrible. I also think you'll get a better and more predictable roll of an Odyssey at a fraction of the price.
mhwgc
Assistant Pro
The new Odyssey Rossie putters are £349 which is a similar cost to Cameron's, so hardly a fraction of the practice. Will you get a 'better and more predictable roll' well very subjective but probably not.
depends if you are a skinflint like me, i wouldn't pay £450 for a driver unless it hit itself 300 yards down the middle;
i found the opposite myself, i get a far more predicable role of any of my SC than any insert putter i've tried
mhwgc
Assistant Pro
Fair enough but I was really trying to point out that the price of top of the range putters are getting similar to the price of drivers and what you use the most.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
But the majority of the Odyssey range is around £150-190 and I'd agree the majority of handicappers wouldn't see any difference between the high end SC and Odyssey top end and something perhaps cheaper than the main Odyssey range and see any benefit in their putting without controlling pace, reading the putt and starting it on the intended line. Sadly most will reach for a new stick (guilty as charged m'lud) rather than work on stroke and distance control. It's an area I've done some work in at home on the putting mat and it does feed back into the putting on the course. In my mind there are no short cuts in golf and you get out what you put in and clubs, while ever more forgiving, can't do all the work
yes i understand and agree a putter in essence would be more value than a driver, but prices are getting silly now, some of it will be the exchange rate changes, but not so long ago SC were £200 now they are over £300
mhwgc
Assistant Pro
I don't know why the costs have increased to their current levels, although when I started playing golf in 1997 the cost of the latest Callaway GBB Driver was £499 and people were buying them hand over first. They slowly came down and are now on the increase again . I think one of the reasons putter prices have gone up could be due to the amount of technology involved in them., that could be the case if you look at the latest line-up compared to earlier Newport style putters.
sure but even the Newport select are over £300, was in Inverness GC earlier this week and current Newport was £315, all the changes to them have been purely cosmetic from what i can see. got my first one in 2008 from Tain pro shop £199 RRP.
mhwgc
Assistant Pro
Interesting although the new select line do have inserts whereas the ones in 2008 didn't so cost of manufacture would be cheaper. However, it's Titleist rather than Scotty that control the costs these days and as they have become more and more popular the costs have increased.
i think the ones without the insert are far better. we had SC day at the club last year and none of the putters i tried felt anything like as good as my Black NS 2012
mhwgc
Assistant Pro
I thought most if not all of the putters have inserts now.
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Yeah, didn’t they go on and on about how much better it was for quality & performance to have the entire clubhead milled from a single block of 303 steel. Now it seems it’s just the face with other components made from aluminum and all bolted together
all the newer ones do, or at least it looks like an insert... sort of just looks like its been milled around the face to look like one at least.
the insert ones came in in 2016 i think
i didn't know that, thanks. even more season not to get a newer one
mhwgc
Assistant Pro
Well I'm a bit old school, most of mine are carbon, I prefer the feel. Although I have tried a friends Super rat that has an insert and that feels pretty good but that was $2500 so it should be.
