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Amended And Restated 2001 Non-employee Directors Stock Incentive Plan

Effective Date: June 06, 2006
Parties:

Callaway Golf

Sectors: Consumer Products (Durables)
Governing Law:  Delaware
EXHIBIT 10.56

CALLAWAY GOLF COMPANY

2001 NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN AMENDED AND RESTATED EFFECTIVE AS OF JUNE 6, 2006

ARTICLE I

GENERAL 1. Adoption. This Callaway Golf Company Non-Employee Directors Stock Incentive Plan (the " Plan" ), which was previously called the Callaway Golf Company Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan, was adopted by Callaway Golf Company (the " Company" ) and approved by its shareholders, effective January 1, 2001. The Company hereby amends and restates the Plan in its entirety, effective June 6, 2006 subject to approval by the Company' s shareholders.

2. Purpose. The Plan is designed to promote the interests of the Company and its shareholders by using investment interests in the Company to attract and retain highly qualified independent directors. 3. Administration. The Plan shall be administered by the Company' s Board of Directors (the " Board" ) or a committee designated by the Board, which shall, subject to limitations contained in the Plan, have the authority to determine whether grants will be comprised of options or other awards or a combination, the number of shares covered by such options or other awards, and the exercise price of options. The Board shall have sole authority to construe the Plan, to determine all questions arising under the Plan, to adopt and amend such rules and regulations for the administration of the Plan as it may deem desirable, and otherwise to carry out the terms of the Plan. The interpretation and construction by the Board of any provisions of the Plan or of any option or other award granted under the Plan shall be final. 4. Eligible Directors. Each person who is a duly elected or appointed member of the Board, but is not then otherwise an employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates and has not been an employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates since the beginning of the Company' s preceding fiscal year shall be eligible to receive grants of options or other awards under this Plan (an " Eligible Director" ).

5. Annual and One-Time Grants. Each Eligible Director shall receive a one-time grant of options and/or other awards upon first being appointed to serve on the Board. The grant date for one-time grants shall be the date upon which such appointment is effective. In addition, each Eligible Director shall receive an annual grant of options and/or other awards for each fiscal year in which they are elected to serve on the Board, provided that any director who is first appointed to the Board within three months prior to the Company' s annual meeting of shareholders shall not be eligible to receive an annual grant upon election at such annual meeting but would be eligible upon election at the following annual meeting of shareholders. The grant date for annual grants shall be the date on which the annual meeting of the Company' s shareholders takes place.

6. Common Stock Subject to the Plan; Grant Limit. The shares that may be made subject to awards hereunder shall be authorized and unissued shares of the Company' s common stock, $0.01 par value per share (" Common Stock" ). The aggregate number of shares that may be issued upon exercise of options and the grant or vesting of other awards under the Plan shall not exceed 500,000 shares of Common Stock, subject to adjustment in accordance with Article IV. (For avoidance of doubt, the aggregate number of shares available under the Plan is not reset as a result of this Amendment and Restatement, and the Plan continues to draw from the 500,000 shares originally authorized as of January 1, 2001.) The maximum number of shares that may be made subject to any one-time grant to an individual Eligible Director is 20,000 shares. The maximum number of shares (not including a one-time grant) that may be made subject to any annual grant to an individual Eligible Director is 10,000 shares.

7. Share Usage. Shares of Common Stock covered by an option or other award shall not be counted as used unless and until they are actually issued and delivered to an Eligible Director. If an option or other award lapses, expires, terminates or is canceled prior to the issuance of shares thereunder or if shares of Common Stock are issued under the Plan to an Eligible Director and are thereafter reacquired by the Company, the shares subject to such options or other awards and the reacquired shares shall again be available for issuance under the Plan. The following items shall not be counted against the total number of shares available for issuance under the Plan: (i) the payment in cash of dividends or dividend equivalents and (ii) any dividends or dividend equivalents that are reinvested into additional shares or credited as additional Restricted Stock or Restricted Stock Units (each as defined below). Shares that are withheld in payment of the exercise price of an option shall be counted against the number of shares available for issuance under the Plan. 8. Amendment of the Plan. The Board may from time to time suspend or discontinue the Plan or revise or amend it in any respect whatsoever, except that no such amendment shall alter or impair or diminish any rights or obligations under any option or other award theretofore granted under the Plan without the consent of the person to whom such option or other award was granted. In addition, without further shareholder approval, the Plan may not be amended so as to (i) increase the number of shares subject to the Plan (as adjusted under Article IV); (ii) increase the individual share limits set forth in Article I, Section 5; (iii) change the class of persons eligible to receive options or other awards under the Plan; (iv) (except pursuant to an adjustment under Article IV), reduce the exercise price of options or cancel outstanding options and in exchange substitute new options with lower exercise prices and ; (v) provide for the grant of options having an exercise price per option share less than the fair market value on the grant date; or (vi) extend the final date upon which options or other awards may be granted under the Plan.

9. Term of Plan. Options and other awards may be granted under the Plan until December 31, 2011, whereupon the Plan will terminate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each option or other award granted under the Plan shall remain in effect until such option or other award has been exercised or terminated, as applicable, in accordance with its terms and the terms of the Plan.

10. Award Agreements; Vesting and Restrictions. Provisions relating to the vesting and/or other terms and restrictions of options or other awards shall be set forth in award agreements, provided that no option or other award shall vest sooner than one year from the grant date. All options and other awards shall be subject to the requirement that, if at any time the Company shall determine, in its discretion, that the listing, registration or qualification of the shares subject to such options or other awards upon any securities exchange or under any state or federal law, or the consent or approval of any government regulatory body, is necessary or desirable as a condition of, or in connection with, the granting of such option or award or the issuance or purchase of shares in connection therewith, such option or award may not be exercised or transferred in whole or in part unless such listing, registration, qualification, consent or approval shall have been effected or obtained free of any conditions not acceptable to the Company.

11. Nonassignability. No option or Restricted Stock Unit (as defined below) granted under the Plan shall be assignable or transferable by the grantee except by will or by the laws of descent and distribution or pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order (as defined by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended). During the lifetime of the optionee, the option shall be exercisable only by the optionee, and no other person shall acquire any rights therein. Restricted Stock (as defined below) shall be subject to the restrictions on transferability described in Article III. 12. Definition of " Fair Market Value." For purposes of the Plan, the term " fair market value," when used in reference to the value of a share of the Company' s Common Stock, means the closing price for the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange during regular session trading for a single trading day as reported for such day in The Wall Street Jou ...

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