Head weight for 2013-2018 Newports...if they had no weights?

[nocarts83]

I've always been pretty familiar with the swing feel of the Newports from roughly 2013-2018...15g weights in the 34", 10g weights in the 35", etc.  I recently tried something that was also 350g/34", but a solid head with no weights, and didn't like it as much as I thought.

 

I recently exchanged some emails with someone at Piretti regarding a Potenza head that would be 355/365/375 depending on which weights you put in.  The weight materials were aluminum, SS, and copper, which led me to ask, and sure enough the weight of the head if no weight ports existed would be around the middle 365.  I'd always been under the impression that heel and toe weights aren't just there for customization, but rather for a little more MOI.  It seems like that would definitely be the case on the Special Selects with what appears to be a smaller head and 35g weights in the 34" model.  But what about the 2013-2018 models?  Would it be a 350g head anyway with no weights?  Or maybe 340g like the 10gx2 35" version?

[brendan6q66]

I could be very wrong here but I thought they were around 310g with no weights. Then adding two 20g weights at 33” gets 350g, 15g weights at 34” gets 340g and 10g at. 35” gets 330g. Again, could be very wrong.
 

Never thought of the weights as being for MOI, just “customization” or really the ability for Scotty manufacture a single head that could be all weights, which is less costly and more profitable. It’s not like they were taking weight out of the center of the putter and relocating to the weights. 

[nocarts83]

330/340/350 could be right.  It's been awhile since I looked it up.

 

For Piretti, it's clearly just a customization feature.  On the other end, there's Tiger's putter from the PGA this year and Open last year where they added weight ports to add a little more heft.  That's more like the Special Select, though, where it's a smaller head than the 2013-2018 models, and likely also had more than 10-15g weights installed.