Fake Scotty Cameron at Play it Again Sports

[Whit1969]

Saw this in the putter rack. It was $179.95! Can’t believe they have no idea it is a fake!

 

[Nixhex524]

Is that fake, or just a REALLY bad refinish/custom job?

 

Did you alert the store if you suspected it was fake? I am no expert on Camerons, but the stampings actually look about right.

[Whit1969]

Never seen one with a sound slot cut all the way through the head where you could see right through it, especially a Newport 2 model. The sight dot and sight line are not in line with each other. Plus the head weight is way light. Finally look at the metal where the paint is chipped away.

[Adam C]

Club is definitely jacked up but not sure it's fake.

[golfgirlrobin]

Even if they knew it was fake, they wouldn’t care. It would still be $179.95.

[BYK]

That's a real putter that's been hacked to hell with aftermarket work

and lol its not worth $180. Maybe $1.80 would be a better starting point

[Davidv]

Someone will find magic with it.

[1toGolf]

Send it to Scotty and he can work his magic to make it an $1800 custom! Lol

[ffmedicmatt]

Face milling is off. Dots on the face aren’t correctly drilled. The alignment dot, Sound slot and weights are clearly aftermarket. However I believe with 99% it’s fake

[ffmedicmatt]

 

Face milling off the google for comparison

[ffmedicmatt]

> @"Adam C" said:

> Club is definitely jacked up but not sure it's fake.

 

 

Super fake.

[AThompson_3]

That’s not a fake. That’s someone who experimented with this putter before doing work on something else most likely. All of the reasons you listed as fakes are all modifications that can be made to a putter with. That was originally just the satin head that someone painted black (that’s why it chips so easily and doesn’t resemble the wear that a factory black Scotty would). They also drilled a sight line (a hack job no doubt but no one faking this putter is going with a sight dot), the sound slot and face milling were 100% hack jobs (again anyone going through the effort to fake this putter isn’t going to mill a sound slot). The circle t weights were purchased on eBay. The headweight is off because of all the weight lost from milling the sound slot and the face. All of the stampings look correct. Real putter.

[GoIrish17]

It’s a real putter that someone jacked up in their home laboratory. To me it’s worth zero dollars, and if Play it Again has that for sale for money they’re not even trying.

[jschwarb]

You just never know. If I'm them, why not put a silly price on it? But also, if I'm them, if someone offers me a couple of Jacksons, it's out the door.

[ffmedicmatt]

> @AThompson_3 said:

> That’s not a fake. That’s someone who experimented with this putter before doing work on something else most likely. All of the reasons you listed as fakes are all modifications that can be made to a putter with. That was originally just the satin head that someone painted black (that’s why it chips so easily and doesn’t resemble the wear that a factory black Scotty would). They also drilled a sight line (a hack job no doubt but no one faking this putter is going with a sight dot), the sound slot and face milling were 100% hack jobs (again anyone going through the effort to fake this putter isn’t going to mill a sound slot). The circle t weights were purchased on eBay. The headweight is off because of all the weight lost from milling the sound slot and the face. All of the stampings look correct. Real putter.

 

It’s fake. If you zoom in on the lettering on the face you can see the face milling was done prior to the words.

 

[VNutz]

> @ffmedicmatt said:

> > @AThompson_3 said:

> > That’s not a fake. That’s someone who experimented with this putter before doing work on something else most likely. All of the reasons you listed as fakes are all modifications that can be made to a putter with. That was originally just the satin head that someone painted black (that’s why it chips so easily and doesn’t resemble the wear that a factory black Scotty would). They also drilled a sight line (a hack job no doubt but no one faking this putter is going with a sight dot), the sound slot and face milling were 100% hack jobs (again anyone going through the effort to fake this putter isn’t going to mill a sound slot). The circle t weights were purchased on eBay. The headweight is off because of all the weight lost from milling the sound slot and the face. All of the stampings look correct. Real putter.

>

> It’s fake. If you zoom in on the lettering on the face you can see the face milling was done prior to the words.

>

 

I disagree. IMO you can see spots in the letters where you can tell the re-milling has taken out parts of the letters, particularly the bottom of the R, the middle left of the E and the bottom right of the O.

[straightshot7]

Fakes don't usually have the vertical mill line this one appears to have.

 

I'd say real just someone experimenting on it, as someone mentioned above.

[Yanki01]

it's real with a heck of a lot of aftermarket work done to it. i wouldn't pay no more than $25 for it and send it to BOS golf to get restored.

[coach_harris1]

> @Nixhex524 said:

> Is that fake, or just a REALLY bad refinish/custom job?

>

> Did you alert the store if you suspected it was fake? I am no expert on Camerons, but the stampings actually look about right.

 

Was thinking the same thing. Looks real and got a hack job by someone that didn’t know what they were doing.

[Nixhex524]

> @VNutz said:

> > @ffmedicmatt said:

> > > @AThompson_3 said:

> > > That’s not a fake. That’s someone who experimented with this putter before doing work on something else most likely. All of the reasons you listed as fakes are all modifications that can be made to a putter with. That was originally just the satin head that someone painted black (that’s why it chips so easily and doesn’t resemble the wear that a factory black Scotty would). They also drilled a sight line (a hack job no doubt but no one faking this putter is going with a sight dot), the sound slot and face milling were 100% hack jobs (again anyone going through the effort to fake this putter isn’t going to mill a sound slot). The circle t weights were purchased on eBay. The headweight is off because of all the weight lost from milling the sound slot and the face. All of the stampings look correct. Real putter.

> >

> > It’s fake. If you zoom in on the lettering on the face you can see the face milling was done prior to the words.

> >

>

> I disagree. IMO you can see spots in the letters where you can tell the re-milling has taken out parts of the letters, particularly the bottom of the R, the middle left of the E and the bottom right of the O.

 

Exactly... It's pretty clear to me that the face milling has been exaggerated from the original and has taken parts of the letters away. It's completely jacked up but lots about it actually look legit if you can see past all the horror.