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In short
The Scotty Cameron California Hollywood (2009) is a blade putter suited to players with an arcing stroke. It has full toe hang.
The California Hollywood came out of Scotty Cameron's 2009 California series, a line built around a darker, softer, more understated idea of what a Cameron could be. Where the studio putters were bright 303 stainless, the California heads were carbon steel finished in a dark charcoal gunmetal that cut glare and warmed up the feel. The Hollywood is the wide-flange blade of the group. It keeps the heel-toe blade silhouette but widens the sole and back flange, so it sits somewhere between a traditional Newport and a small mallet.
The carbon steel is the whole point here. It gives up a little of the crisp, dense response you get from milled stainless and hands back a softer, rounder feel at impact. Purists who grew up on old carbon-steel blades know this feel well. The tradeoff is that carbon needs a bit more care to keep from rusting under the finish, but the payoff is a putter that feels muted and solid without going dead.
Full toe hang tells you who this putter is for. Balance the shaft on a finger and the toe swings down toward the floor, which means the head wants to open going back and close coming through. That fits a stroke with a real arc to it. There is no sightline on top, so you aim by the shape of the head and the clean topline. This is a feel player's putter dressed in a color that stays quiet in the sun.
The Hollywood is a wide-flange blade, so it starts from the classic heel-toe shape and then broadens the sole and the back of the head. That widening pushes a little more weight low and back than a narrow Newport carries, which steadies the face without turning the putter into a full mallet. The head is carbon steel rather than stainless, and the softer metal is where the muted, rounded feel comes from. Cameron finished the California heads in a dark charcoal gunmetal that reads almost black in the bag and stays glare-free over the ball. The plumber's neck and the head weighting combine to give full toe hang, the strong rotational balance that arc putters want. There is no alignment line milled or painted on the topline, so the setup is clean and you aim off the shape. The dark finish is not just a look. It hides the busy reflections you sometimes get off a bright milled head at address, and it ages into the kind of worn, personal patina that carbon-steel putters are known for. Nothing about the Hollywood is loud. It is a traditional blade idea widened slightly and dressed down.
Scotty Cameron putters are CNC milled from a single block of steel in Carlsbad, California. The attention to detail in weight distribution, sole geometry, and face milling creates a feel that's considered the benchmark in professional golf.
| Brand | Scotty Cameron |
| Model | California Hollywood |
| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Blade |
| Toe hang | Full toe hang |
| Alignment aid | No |
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