Jordan Spieth's Putter: The Scotty Cameron 009 and His TP Mills Switch

Jordan Spieth has won three major championships — the 2015 Masters, the 2015 U.S. Open, and the 2017 Open Championship — and for every one of them, the putter in his hands was the same battered Scotty Cameron 009 he was fit for as a 15-year-old. It is one of the most famous putters in golf. So when Spieth quietly pulled it from the bag at the 2025 WM Phoenix Open and replaced it with a TP Mills Trad II, it was genuine equipment news: one of the game's most loyal players walking away from the club that built his legend.

Here is the full story on both putters — what Spieth gamed for fifteen years, what he switched to, the specs that survived the change, and what an amateur can actually take from a tour player's putter setup without spending a dime on a custom blade.

At a Glance — Spieth's Two Putters

Notice what did not change. Same blade shape, same plumber's neck, same grip. Spieth did not reinvent his putting — he looked for a marginally better version of the exact tool he already trusted. That restraint is the real lesson, and we will come back to it.

The Scotty Cameron 009: A Putter He's Had Since He Was 15

The "009" in the name is a nod to a San Diego-area zip code, and within Scotty Cameron's world it designates the rare, hand-finished tour models — soft carbon steel, custom stampings, made in tiny numbers. These are the putters tour pros chase. Spieth's path to his was, by his own admission, a little sneaky.

As an eighth grader he visited the Scotty Cameron gallery in Southern California for a fitting. He wanted a German Stainless Steel (GSS) model like the ones Tiger Woods played, but the fitter steered him to a Teryllium 1.5 that better matched his stroke. Spieth won the 2009 U.S. Junior Amateur with it — then went back to the gallery that fall with his heart set on a Triple Black 009, the same finish his favorite players Adam Scott and Geoff Ogilvy were using. As he later confessed, he started deliberately missing putts with the Teryllium to justify the change, "trying to manipulate the stroke a little bit" so his current putter looked worse than it was. The ploy worked. He walked out with the 009.

A single sight line was milled into the topline to give him one clean alignment reference — line the middle of the putter to the ball, the ball to the target, and trust it. With that putter he won the 2009 and 2011 U.S. Junior Amateurs, the 2015 Masters and U.S. Open, the 2017 Open Championship, and a dozen PGA Tour titles in total. Fifteen years and three majors out of one club. You can read the full origin story over at Golf.com.

By the end of its run the 009 looked the part of a fifteen-year companion. "It's not Triple Black anymore, it's almost like chrome on the bottom now, and it's pretty rusty," Spieth said — but with "that look to it that's just been great." He owns roughly fifteen Scotty Camerons. He kept coming back to that one.

Why Spieth Left the 009 for a TP Mills Trad II

Putting had quietly become the weak link in Spieth's game. For a player whose peak was defined by holed putts from everywhere, the numbers had slid, and at the 2025 WM Phoenix Open he did the thing nobody expected — he benched golf's most romantic putter for a blade from boutique maker TP Mills.

His reasoning was refreshingly unglamorous. Spieth said he was simply searching for what helped him "stroke it the best," paying close attention to how each putter "sits on the ground," whether it "aligns a little better," and whether it felt "a little bit smoother" at impact. TP Mills founder David Mills noted the Trad II should offer a touch more stability than his old gamer. There was no swing overhaul, no new coach, no anchored-grip controversy. Just a player chasing a few percent of confidence by changing the one variable he could feel under his hands. You can follow the move through the equipment trucks via Today's Golfer's report on the switch and Golf Monthly's 2026 What's-In-The-Bag breakdown.

What Makes the TP Mills Trad II Different

TP Mills is a name that means something to putter nerds. Truett P. Mills built blades by hand for decades, and the company still produces classic, traditionally-milled heads with a feel that purists love. The Trad II is exactly what its name promises: a traditional heel-toe weighted blade, raw finish, plumber's neck.

Against the 009 the differences are small and deliberate:

• Loft — the Trad II runs slightly lower, which can help start the ball on line and reduce hop off the face on fast greens.
• Construction — carbon steel tuned for a soft, muted feel, so Spieth keeps the buttery impact sensation he is used to.
• Stability — a hair more forgiveness on mishits than a pure tour blade, without changing the silhouette he has stared at his whole career.

The takeaway: this was a like-for-like swap, not a leap. Same category of putter, refined at the margins. That is how tour players actually change equipment — they protect what works and tweak what doesn't.

The Grip That Never Changed — SuperStroke Zenergy Flatso 1.0

One spec carried straight across the switch: the grip. Spieth plays a SuperStroke Zenergy Flatso 1.0 on both putters. The Flatso has a flat front profile that encourages the hands to sit in a consistent position and the face to stay square, and its larger, lighter-feeling build quiets excess wrist action — useful for a player who relies on feel and pace rather than a robotic mechanical stroke.

Grip is the single most overlooked spec for amateurs. It is also the cheapest thing on this entire page to copy. If you are unsure how grip shape and size change your stroke, our complete guide to putting grip styles walks through the trade-offs in plain English.

What Tour Players Actually Chase When They Change Putters

Strip away the brand names and Spieth's move tells you what matters at the highest level. He did not chase a number on a launch monitor. He chased three feels: how the putter sits behind the ball, how easily it aligns, and how smooth it rolls the ball. Those three things — setup, alignment, and contact — are what separate a good putter from a streaky one, and not one of them requires a five-thousand-dollar GSS blade.

A quick note on specs honesty: tour putters are custom-ground and the exact loft and lie on a player's gamer are rarely published, because they get bent and tuned constantly to match how the player sets up that season. Anyone quoting Spieth's 009 to the half-degree is guessing. What we can verify — head style, neck, grip, the nature of the switch — is what we have laid out above. If you want to understand how length, loft, lie and weight actually change your own putting, our putter fitting guide is the place to start.

What You Can Steal From Spieth's Setup at Home

You cannot buy his 009 — but you can copy the principles that made it work for fifteen years:

• One alignment reference. The 009's single sight line existed to give Spieth one clean cue. Pick a single alignment aid — a line on your ball, a sight dot, one line on the putter — and stop adding more. Clutter creates doubt.
• Don't chase, refine. Spieth changed one variable and kept everything else. If your putting is off, resist the urge to overhaul grip, stance, putter and routine all at once. Change one thing, give it real reps, then judge.
• Match the grip to your hands, not the rankings. The Flatso works for Spieth's feel-based stroke. Yours might want something rounder or thinner. This is the cheapest upgrade in golf — experiment.
• Make alignment and pace boring. Every feel Spieth chased — sits, aligns, rolls smooth — is trainable at home with reps, not money.

And if you do want to spend money on a putter, spend it on a fitting, not on matching Spieth's specs. His 009 was custom-fit to a teenager's stroke in 2009 and tuned for fifteen years after; copying its numbers would be copying someone else's body and tempo. The right length, lie and head weight for you will beat a famous spec sheet every time — which is the whole point of getting measured rather than mimicking.

The Practice Angle

Here is the part the equipment headlines always skip. The 009 did not hole the putt on the 72nd hole at Chambers Bay in 2015. The thousands of repetitions Spieth put in before he ever got there did. The putter was the instrument; the practice was the music.

That is exactly the gap a quality home surface closes. Tour players roll hundreds of putts a day on consistent greens. Most amateurs putt seriously only in the ninety seconds before they tee off. If you need a structure for those reps, our complete putting drills guide lays out the work by distance, pace and pressure. A true-rolling mat lets you build the two things Spieth was hunting for — repeatable alignment and smooth pace — in your living room, on a surface that behaves the same way every single time. That is where a square face and a trusted stroke actually get built, one boring rep at a time.

We can't sell you Jordan Spieth's 009. But we can sell you the surface to earn your own stroke on. Our Tour-Grade Putting Mat is built for exactly this kind of high-volume, true-roll practice — the unglamorous reps that make pressure putts feel routine.

Bottom Line

Jordan Spieth's putter story is a fifteen-year love affair with a rusty Scotty Cameron 009, followed by a clear-eyed, marginal upgrade to a TP Mills Trad II when his stroke needed a nudge. The headline is the switch. The lesson is the restraint: same blade, same neck, same grip, one variable changed. Pros protect what works and refine at the edges — and the part that actually lowers scores, the reps, is the part you can copy today without buying anything custom at all.

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At Chiputt Golf, we make tour-grade putting mats and chipping mats designed for golfers serious about closing the gap between range and round. We can't sell you Jordan Spieth's Scotty Cameron 009 — but we can sell you the surface to put 5,000 reps a week in on. If you're serious about earning your stroke, our Tour-Grade Putting Mat is where the work happens.