The Most Forgiving Putters for High Handicappers of 2025

Putters come in all shapes and sizes, which makes finding best putter for your game difficult. For mid and higher-handicap golfers, the top priority should be to find the most forgiving putter. To take the next step to a lower handicap, cutting down on putts is critical.

Forgiveness in a putter can mean a few things. Off-center strikes can roll closer to your intended line and go closer to your intended distance with more forgiving putters. The emergence of zero torque putters over the last couple of years might not qualify as forgiveness per se, but those putters are easier to hit on line, and any putter that makes putting easier is a good thing for high or mid-handicap golfers.

If you’re a high-handicap player looking for forgiveness from your flat stick, these eight putters can help.

We’re expanding the definition of forgiveness in putters beyond the traditional MOI measurement because the emerging zero torque putters are straight up easy to use. LAB is no doubt the king of the category, and these putters are precisely engineered to stay square to your path during the stroke. That means that as long as your path is pointed towards your target line at impact, you’re going to hit a quality putt.

LAB’s putter designs are becoming increasingly attractive, and the latest LAB release, this OZ.1, just might be the sleekest yet. With design input from Adam Scott, the half-moon shape is appealing to a lot of players, and the option to roll with an all aluminum head or opt for the stainless steel insert that gives a firmer feel and a slightly hotter face, is a first for LAB.

It’s safe to say that even though LAB is at the top of the zero torque putter category, it’s still pushing the envelope for improved design and performance, which is great news for golfers of all abilities.

There are two big reasons this Evnroll ER11vx is not just on this list, but near the top of it.

Let’s start with Evnroll’s signature technology, the feature that ensures the brand lives up to its name. That’s the SweetFace grooves that Evnroll puts on every one of its putters. The grooves get progressively narrower away from the center of the face, which increases energy transfer on off-center strikes, resulting in consistent distances whether you hit or miss the center. 

Now that’s more of the traditional performance benefits we typically associate with forgiveness in a putter. 

Beyond the forgiving face found on any Evnroll putter, this full-sized mallet is an extreme MOI design, with weight distributed strategically to maximize forgiveness. The head almost resembles the iconic Spider shape from TaylorMade (more on that shortly) but with Evnroll’s face technology, which is an appealing combination.

It’s true that PING is responsible for perhaps the most influential putter design of all time, and it’s not this Tomcat putter. But for players asking which PING putter offers maximum forgiveness, Tomcat is the only answer.

With all that negative space in this head, you can literally see the forgiveness this putter delivers. The head is a combination of aluminum and stainless steel, which allowed PING engineers to put the weight where they wanted it most.

The face is milled to create a firm feel and slightly faster ball speeds.

Priced at around $199, this putter is as forgiving on the wallet as it is on the greens.

Cleveland did something a little counterintuitive to create forgiveness in its Frontline putters, including the latest release in the series, the Frontline Elite. It brought weight forward rather than pushing it to the rear – hence the Frontline name. 

The insert in the Frontline Elite putters is tungsten, a heavier material that moves the CG closer to the face. 

The logic is that when you strike a putt off-center, the head twists around the CG. When the CG is closer to the face, the arc that the head twists around is smaller than when the CG is pushed all the way back. That results in the putter head delivering less off-center force to the ball, keeping it on the right line much longer.

Frontline Elite putters are available in a few shapes, including a blade, traditional mallet, and fang.

By many metrics, Odyssey is the top putter brand out there, and now that the putter giant has released a modern zero torque putter, pros and amateurs alike have even more reason to put one in the bag. 

The Square 2 Square line of Odyssey Ai-One putters has three heads, and this Jailbird mallet is our favorite for all-around forgiveness. Beyond the zero torque profile, which we’ve already discussed, this mallet-style putter also has Odyssey’s Ai-One insert, which takes a different approach – a variable face thickness – to deliver consistent ball speeds across the face.

Add in Odyssey’s Jailbird design, which serves as a visual cue to assist with keeping the putter head square, and it’s no surprise that this is one of the most popular new putters out there.

The TaylorMade Spider debuted in 2008 and TaylorMade has stuck with the line in the nearly 20 years since. It’s hard to find any piece of golf equipment with that sort of longevity, which is a testament to just how good this putter is.

The lightweight core and heavy frame create a high MOI head that resists twisting on off-center strikes, helping all putts roll straighter, tightening dispersion which leads to more makes and fewer three-putts. Isn’t that what we all want on the greens?

TaylorMade’s Pure Roll insert is also designed to get the ball rolling quicker, instead of skidding off the face, which helps improve distance control.

Remember when people wondered how good Scottie Scheffler could be if he just started making some putts? When he switched to a TaylorMade Spider putter – albeit a slightly different version than you can buy in retail – we all found out.

There’s one sneaky element to Cobra putters that I think more people should know about: Descending Loft Technology. It essentially guarantees that whether you hit a putt off the bottom of the face, the top of the face, or right in the center, you’ll get a consistent roll. It’s a great feature for any player, and can really help high-handicap players gain some confidence on the greens.

That face, with four degrees of loft at the top which progressively drops to just one degree at the bottom, is just one reason to love the Stingray Vintage putter from Cobra. The modern mallet shape, which blends sharp and rounded lines and offers a high-contrast alignment line, is easy on the eyes and easy to point at the target.

If you’re shopping for a putter, you could do a lot worse for $249.