US 12,343,600 B2
Golf club head with sole compliance zone
Irina Ivanova, San Marcos, CA (US); Brandon D. DeMille, Carlsbad, CA (US); Alan Hocknell, Encinitas, 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 Nov. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/388,621.
Application 18/388,621 is a continuation of application No. 17/935,547, filed on Sep. 26, 2022, granted, now 11,813,504.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/249,418, filed on Sep. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0075352 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A63B 53/04 (2015.01)
CPC A63B 53/0433 (2020.08) [A63B 53/0416 (2020.08); A63B 53/0466 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A golf club head comprising:
a body comprising a face portion and a sole section, 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
a plurality of plugs, wherein each of the plurality of through-openings is filled with a plug of the plurality of plugs;
wherein each of the plurality of plugs is a secondary filler piece comprising a base portion and a plurality of extensions, wherein each of the plurality of extensions extends from the base portion, and wherein each of the plurality of extensions fills one of the plurality of through-openings.