The most trusted name in blade putters is not the best blade putter at short putts. That is the takeaway from MyGolfSpy's 2026 blade putter test, which measured more than 15,000 putts across 24 models and found the Scotty Cameron SS Newport 2 finishing fourth in short range performance behind the Mizuno M.Craft Osaka, PING Scottsdale Anser 4, and COBRA 3DP Tour Grandsport.
The Newport 2 posted a PuttView Short score of negative 3.9, meaning it saves golfers nearly four strokes per measured sample from inside 10 feet. That is perfectly respectable. It is also meaningfully worse than the Mizuno, which posted negative 6.5 and led all 24 blades with a 90 percent short putt make rate. The gap between first and fourth in this test was 2.6 strokes. For context, the gap between the best and worst performers in the entire test was nearly eight strokes.
Here is where it gets interesting. The Newport 2 remains one of the most well-rounded blades in the test. Its medium putt score of 1.0 is tighter than the COBRA (3.3) and the Odyssey Ai-Dual DW (6.4), both of which gave back gains at mid-range distances. Scotty Cameron has never marketed itself as a performance outlier. The brand sells confidence, aesthetics, and tour validation. It sells the idea that the putter used by more winners than any other model must be doing something right.
That positioning remains intact even when independent testing shows Mizuno and PING outperforming it on short putts. Scotty Cameron currently ranks eighth globally in the DORMIED Index, and that standing has nothing to do with PuttView scores. It has everything to do with brand equity, secondary market demand, and a collector culture that treats limited releases like currency. The Newport 2 does not need to win a test. It needs to remain the default choice for golfers who believe the best putter is the one that looks right over the ball.
The more revealing story here is Mizuno's continued emergence as a legitimate premium putter brand. The M.Craft Osaka topped this test convincingly and did so without the tour saturation or social media machinery that props up most putter launches. Scotty Cameron is not losing its position at the top of the market. But the field behind it is getting sharper, and the data is getting harder to ignore.
