Scotty Cameron

Scotty Cameron

Don T. "Scotty" Cameron (born November 8, 1962) is an American golf club maker primarily known for marketing putters.

Cameron was born in Glendale, California. He later moved to Huntington Beach, where he attended Edison High School. Having started making putters in a machine shop owned by a friend of his father, he later setup his own workshop in his mother in law's garage. Once he left his Mother's garage he worked at Byron Morgan's shop in Huntington Beach where they entered into an agreement to make drivers with John Ortega. In 1986, he started his first job in the golf industry with Ray Cook Golf Company in general sales.

In 1991 Cameron manufactured his first retail production putter, nicknamed the Fry's Pity Putter. He then began making putters and selling his putters directly to some golf equipment manufacturers, including Maxfli, Cleveland but then began producing exclusively for Mizuno.

In late 1992, Cameron and his wife Kathy set up Cameron Golf International and began selling the Scotty Cameron Classic line of putters. In 1993, Bernhard Langer won the Masters Tournament using a Cameron prototype Anser style putter that had been made when Cameron was making putters for Mizuno. Cameron used Langer's Masters Tournament win to jump start Camerons' new company, Cameron Golf International (1993–1994)

In August 1994, Titleist opened their bank account and fought off competition from five other companies to contract with Cameron and acquired the legal rights to the Scotty Cameron name. Since then, with the financial backing of Acushnet, the Scotty Cameron brand has grown to be one of the leading names in golf.

Acushnet has since purchased all the rights to the Scotty Cameron brand and the focus of Cameron's work is now centered on marketing the products that Acushnet/Titleist contract to have manufactured by third parties with name Scotty Cameron on them, in addition to doing specially commissioned work for tour professionals.

Putter heads for Titleist's Scotty Cameron brand were manufactured by X-cel Golf/Bettinardi between 1993 and 1997. Slivnik Machining Inc., who with Scotty Cameron jointly hold the patent on the Tei3 putter, and K-Tech Machine Inc. have also made putters for the brand.

The Scotty Cameron brand becomes a subsidiary of Fila Korea. May 20, 2011 - Fortune Brands, Inc. announced an agreement for the sale of its Acushnet Company golf business, including the Scotty Cameron brand, to a group led by Fila Korea Ltd., for $1.225 billion in cash. According to Gene Yoon, chairman of Fila Korea, the acquisition provides them with well-known brands to sell in emerging markets in Asia.