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As first reported by Front Office Sports, TaylorMade has filed suit against Callaway over alleged false advertising tied to golf ball performance claims.
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a public legal dust-up between two of the golf industry’s true heavyweights—at least one that doesn’t hinge on a patent diagram no one outside a courtroom was ever meant to understand.
In recent history, most of the high-profile equipment lawsuits have come from a familiar cast. PXG sued TaylorMade over adjustable-weighting concepts tied to the P790 era. TaylorMade later went after Costco over the original Kirkland Signature irons.
Beyond that, the last few years have been relatively tranquil, save for a handful of notable exceptions: Foresight (now part of Revelyst) and Uneekor trading blows over camera-based launch monitors, Fujikura pursuing ARETERA on IP grounds and SuperSpeed Golf suing The Stack System over claims related to speed gains.
That calm ended a few days ahead of last week’s PGA Show when TaylorMade Golf Company filed suit against Topgolf Callaway Brands (you can read the full complaint here), alleging false advertising, unfair competition and trade libel tied to Callaway’s marketing of its Chrome Tour golf balls. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California and seeks injunctive relief,...
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