Fresh off a runner up finish at the Tour Championship and a win at the WGC FedEx St. Jude, Scotty Cameron is releasing a new putter inspired by Justin Thomas. Hitting stores on the 22nd of this month, the limited edition is designed to the specs of the putter JT is using.
Each putter incorporates the custom setup that JT has been using for a number of years now including the welded slant neck. To commemorate this special release, Scotty and team created a “Circle JT” emblem that is engraved on the heel of the putter face.
“Justin Thomas is one of those unique players who only comes around once or twice in a generation,” Cameron said. “He first visited the Putter Studio as a young amateur when he played a Newport 2. JT loved that traditional putter look. But even after getting his first tour win with the blade, he started to consider a change. He poked around our putter bag on the Tour Van and was initially drawn to the Futura X5 – the compact mallet shape really suited his eye. After some back-and-forth discussions, I welded him a small slant neck as a prototype setup – and here we are, 12 PGA Tour wins later and still counting with the same putter – including a major championship, two World Golf Championships and a FedEx Championship. Players are always asking me for a welded-neck putter like JT’s. It’s a special setup that deserves this kind of treatment.”
• Multi-material head with solid face technology features a standard-milled solid 303 stainless steel face that extends through the wings, while the 6061 aircraft aluminum sole plate allows for superior weight distribution to increase MOI and stability.
• Tour-winning setup is crafted at 34.5 inches with 10-gram customizable stainless steel heel and toe weights for proper balance and increased stability throughout the stroke.
• Welded small slant neck – hand welded on every putter like JT’s original prototype – provides increased toe flow for the mallet head style.
• Signature markings – including a special “Circle JT” emblem engraved into the face heel, and Thomas’ signature designed into the aluminum sole plate – complete the “Inspired by” look and feel.
• Solid milled stainless steel construction is milled in the United States from a block of solid 303 stainless steel for legendary performance and playability with consistent sound and soft feel.
The inspired by JT Phantom X5.5 come complete with a limited embroidered headcover and Scotty Cameron shaft band.
Being year 2020, that is exactly how many of these are being made available at Titleist authorized golf shops. The cost to jump on this limited run? $850
I would pay double LOL!
@Canadan and @HipCheck might have a take on this.
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Don’t like the JT logo. LOVE LOVE LOVE everything else. If I purchased, I probably wouldn’t flip it.
Omg, I clearly haven’t had enough coffee yet I totally missed that haha
i much prefer the circle t there and on the sole plate. but that would probably triple the price on the secondary market, so there’s that.
you are correct…
Price with a refinish would come relatively close to what they are charging for the Inspired by, which I think would look a hell of a lot better without that awful logo on the face. I know it’s JT’s brand or whatever, but it looks terrible on there – like a knockoff.
Does it have big value in resale? I don’t think so. Rors had an inspired by that did pretty well but it was a shape that isn’t regularly accessible to the public (without spending 3k or more). At least in that case all the Rory specific stuff was on the sole.
The logo reminds me of Gordon Ramsey’s Hells Kitchen logo.
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Holy cow it does.
And I love that show.
Spot on. That logo is overcooked risotto.
My thoughts exactly. I’d want to use it, not collect it, so the price tag seems a little hefty.
I’m not willing to spend that on a putter, but this is seriously a perfect looking putter.
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Does this even look like JT’s? The "wings" look different? Can we get a side by side?
I normally love a welded neck, but does it look out of place with such a sleek looking putter otherwise? Like it’s supposed to "look" proto but ends up looking a little unfinished? "Death Star meets my garage."
I also noticed the Cleveland Soft Premier is SOLD OUT in this shape @ $159, and frankly, a sleeker looking putter.
(And perhaps looks more like JT’s putter shape than this? Scorry, not scorry.)
I looked at a lot of putter sites last night and especially "the bigs" weren’t hitting home runs for me.
I’d pay $350 for the JT model, -if it looked like his. I don’t see this being any different from the rest of his lineup save for the JT badging.
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I totally want steak now. I like this putter more and more.
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I think we can all agree this is not JT’s putter being released. It is a JT signature series putter similar to what he uses. But with his logo and signature on it. They will all sell because just like sneaker heads, gear heads buy this stuff.
I think the Phantom X 5.5 starts at $429 so getting the JT model for $350 would be a steal.
I do agree $850 is steep I wouldn’t pay that.
JT logo ….. Just Tap "It In"
I looked the X models and they don’t have a shape like the JT.
That’s just it. I think any Scooty is over-priced. Same materials others are using right now. Aluminum and 303ss seems to be where it’s at.
Any Scotty at $350, to me, is about where his putters should be relevant to others, tour-issue excluded, of course.
Price isn’t even it…just doesn’t have shapes/materials I want.
That’s because JT plays a Futura head shape. That’s what this putter is. It’s not part of the Phantom line.