US 11,813,504 B2
Golf club head with sole compliance zone
Alan Hocknell, Encinitas, CA (US); Brandon D. DeMille, Carlsbad, CA (US); Irina Ivanova, San Marcos, CA (US); William C. Watson, Temecula, CA (US); Timothy G. Scott, Encinitas, CA (US); Romulus M. Tomimbang, San Diego, CA (US); and Justin Del Rosario, Temecula, CA (US)
Assigned to Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp., Carlsbad, CA (US)
Filed by Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp., Carlsbad, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/935,547.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/249,418, filed on Sep. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0105620 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. A63B 53/04 (2015.01)
CPC A63B 53/0433 (2020.08) [A63B 53/0416 (2020.08); A63B 53/0466 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A golf club head comprising:
a body comprising a face portion with a face opening, a return section, a sole section, a heel side, a toe side, an aft end, and a hosel;
a crown insert;
a face cup sized to fit within the face opening; and
at least one plug,
wherein the sole section comprises a compliance zone located within three inches of the face portion measured along a front-to-back x-axis,
wherein the compliance zone comprises a plurality of through-openings, and
wherein each of the plurality of through-openings is filled with the at least one plug.