Scotty Cameron is owned by Acushnet Holdings Corp, the publicly-traded company that also owns Titleist, FootJoy, Vokey Design, and Pinnacle. The ownership has been in place since 1994, when Don T. Scotty Cameron and his wife Kathy partnered their Cameron Golf International business with Acushnet to make putters exclusively under the Titleist umbrella. Acushnet trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GOLF, and Fila Korea Ltd holds a controlling 53.1 percent stake in the company through a 2018 share purchase.
The story behind the partnership is one of the more interesting in golf equipment history. Cameron grew up in Southern California learning to make putters in his father's garage. By the early 1990s he was designing putters under contract for Ray Cook Golf Company, Maxfli, Cleveland Classics, and Mizuno. The breakthrough moment came in April 1993, when Bernhard Langer won the Masters using a prototype Cameron putter. Within 18 months, Cameron was introduced to Wally Uihlein, then-CEO of Acushnet, by teaching pro Peter Kostis. The partnership was formalized in September 1994.
How Acushnet Came to Own Scotty Cameron
Acushnet itself has been through several owners. The company was acquired by American Brands in 1976, which later renamed itself Fortune Brands. In December 2010 Fortune Brands announced it would spin off its non-liquor businesses, including Acushnet. In May 2011 a Korean consortium led by Fila Korea and Mirae Asset Private Equity purchased Acushnet for $1.23 billion in cash. The deal closed in July 2011. Acushnet went public on the NYSE in October 2016, and Fila Korea increased its stake to a controlling position in 2018.
For Scotty Cameron specifically, this means the brand has been owned by Acushnet since 1994 through several changes of corporate parent above it. The Cameron design team and Putter Studio in Carlsbad have operated continuously throughout, and the brand has not been disturbed by any of the upstream ownership changes. Cameron himself remains the lead designer and his name and signature still appear on every putter.
What This Means for the Product
The Acushnet relationship gave Cameron something very few independent putter brands ever achieve: scale of distribution. Scotty Cameron putters are now stocked at every Titleist fitting account globally, which is a network the brand could never have built alone. The trade-off is that Cameron operates as a premium brand within a portfolio rather than as an independent house. Pricing, release cadence, and category positioning are coordinated with Acushnet's broader strategy.
The numbers reflect the bet's success. Scotty Cameron putters have won more than 45 major championships since the Acushnet partnership began. Tiger Woods used a Scotty Cameron putter for the majority of his career, including 13 of his 15 major wins. Today the brand competes in the premium milled putter segment against Bettinardi, L.A.B. Golf, Toulon Design, and a small handful of boutique makers. Volume sits with Odyssey and Ping at lower price points. The Cameron lane is the high-margin, tour-validated, custom-finished end of the market.
Context: How This Compares
Scotty Cameron's ownership structure mirrors how most premium putter brands sit inside larger equipment companies. Odyssey is owned by Callaway. Toulon Design is also owned by Callaway through the Odyssey acquisition. Bettinardi has stayed independent. The Cameron-Acushnet relationship is the longest-running and the most commercially successful of any of these, and it has held together through three changes of Acushnet's parent ownership without affecting the putter business in any visible way. That is unusual and worth noting.
If you are asking who owns Scotty Cameron because you wonder whether the brand is changing hands or being repositioned: the answer is no. Acushnet has owned Scotty Cameron for 31 years and shows no signs of selling or restructuring the relationship.
