Travis R. covers equipment, shafts, and the DORMIED Index data for DORMIED. He is the data co-founder and has been tracking the golf brand market since 2018.
Jake Knapp's most recent start had a Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.2R Tour Prototype in the bag, and if you are reading this a month from now that may already be wrong. Knapp has cycled through more putters in 2026 than almost anyone on the PGA Tour: a Phantom 11.2R when he shot a course-record 62 to close out the Houston Open in March, a Phantom 9.2 Circle T at points during the summer, a Phantom T9.5 spotted at one event, a Phantom 9.2 Tour Prototype before that, and a TaylorMade Spider Tour and a PXG prototype before Scotty Cameron took the slot over entirely. The honest answer to what putter Jake Knapp uses is that it is a Scotty Cameron Phantom, and the model is a moving target.
The interesting part: he is a PXG staffer putting with a Titleist brand
This is the detail that makes the churn worth writing about rather than just cataloguing.
Knapp signed with PXG and built his bag around their equipment. His irons are PXG, a 0211 ST set from the 4 down, with a Titleist T250 driving iron above them. His mini-driver, a 13 degree Secret Weapon, is PXG. He carries a PXG Sugar Daddy II wedge. PXG also makes putters, an entire line of them, and markets them heavily.
He putts with a Scotty Cameron.
Staff deals almost always leave the putter open, because the putter is the club players are least willing to compromise on, and manufacturers know that forcing the issue is how you lose a player entirely. But it is still striking to see it laid out: the most visible club in a player's hands over the final three feet of a tournament belongs to a competitor. Knapp has also drifted at the top of the bag, moving from a PXG Lightning Tour Max driver to a PING G440 LST during the FedEx Cup Playoffs, which makes his setup less a PXG bag than a PXG core with the two most scrutinised clubs sourced elsewhere.
What the search data shows
DORMIED tracks brand search demand, and Knapp's putter has become a genuine demand event in its own right.
| Query | Prior week | Recent week |
|---|---|---|
| jake knapp putter | 39 | 315 |
| what putter does jake knapp use | 6 | 128 |
| jake knapp putter 2026 | 4 | 104 |
| Combined putter queries | ~49 | ~547 |
Source: DORMIED search tracking, week to 20 August 2026.
That is roughly an eleven-fold increase in seven days, and the putter queries are now growing faster than searches for his bag as a whole. In the same week, searches for Scotty Cameron as a brand went from effectively nothing in our tracking to 157 impressions.
That second number is the one worth dwelling on. A single player's putter, in a single week, produced a measurable lift in brand-level search interest for the manufacturer. This is what equipment brands are actually buying when they chase tour validation, and it is usually invisible. Here it shows up cleanly in the data, and it went to the brand that is not paying for the rest of the bag.
Why the model keeps changing
Putter churn at this level is not indecision so much as access. A tour player with a Scotty Cameron relationship can request a prototype head, get it built, try it for a week, and hand it back. The models Knapp has been through are almost all Tour Prototype or Circle T stamped, meaning they are tour-department builds rather than retail products.
That is also why this question gets searched so heavily and answered so badly. Someone watches Knapp hole a putt, looks up the model, and finds either a retail Phantom that is not quite what he is using or a specification from six months ago. The Phantom 9.2R does exist at retail in the 2026 line at around $499, but the version in his bag is a tour build, and the R designation, denoting the more rounded head shape first played on tour by Justin Thomas and used by Cameron Young to win his first PGA Tour title, is the closest retail equivalent rather than the same club.
A note on our own data
DORMIED's Jake Knapp WITB page recorded a Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.2 Tour Prototype from a March 2025 bag snapshot until we refreshed it alongside this article. That was accurate when captured and had fallen a long way behind the player. It is a good illustration of the limits of snapshot-based bag tracking against a player who treats the putter slot as a rotating door.
We would rather say that plainly than let a stale line stand. The bag data on this site is a record of verified snapshots, not a live feed, and for most players that distinction does not matter much. For Knapp's putter it matters a great deal.
FAQ
What putter does Jake Knapp use?
Jake Knapp uses Scotty Cameron Phantom putters. His most recent start featured a Phantom 9.2R Tour Prototype. He has changed putter models repeatedly through 2026, so the specific model varies.
What putter did Jake Knapp win the Houston Open with?
A Scotty Cameron Phantom 11.2R. He closed the 2026 Houston Open with a final-round 62, a course record.
Is Jake Knapp sponsored by PXG?
Yes. Knapp is a PXG staff player and carries PXG irons and a PXG Secret Weapon mini-driver. His putter is a Scotty Cameron, which is a Titleist brand, and he moved to a PING driver during the 2026 Playoffs.
Can you buy Jake Knapp's putter?
Not the exact club. His putters are tour-department builds marked Tour Prototype or Circle T. The closest retail equivalent is the Scotty Cameron 2026 Phantom 9.2R, which sells for around $499.
What is a Scotty Cameron Circle T putter?
Circle T denotes a Scotty Cameron tour-only build, made for professionals rather than sold at retail. Circle T putters command significant premiums on the secondary market because they are not publicly available.
What driver does Jake Knapp use?
He moved to a PING G440 LST at 9 degrees with a Project X HZRDUS T1100 shaft during the 2026 FedEx Cup Playoffs, having previously used a PXG Lightning Tour Max and, before that, a TaylorMade Qi35.
What ball does Jake Knapp play?
The Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot, a limited tour-issue ball that produces lower flight and lower long-game spin, which suits his clubhead speed.
See the full bag on Jake Knapp's WITB page, and track brand momentum across 215 golf brands on the DORMIED Index. Related: Scotty Cameron, PXG, and What Makes a Golf Headcover Worth Reselling?
