EXHIBIT 10.15
CALLAWAY GOLF COMPANY
NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS STOCK OPTION PLAN
(As Amended and Restated April 17, 1996)
ARTICLE I
GENERAL
1. Adoption. This Callaway Golf Company Non-Employee Directors Stock
Option Plan (the "Plan") is effective as of September 1, 1992, subject to
approval by the Board of Directors and shareholders of Callaway Golf Company
(the "Company").
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,
which shall have the power 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 administrator
of any provisions of the Plan or of any option granted under the Plan shall be
final. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the administrator shall have no authority
or discretion as to the selection of persons eligible to receive options granted
under the Plan, the number of shares covered by options granted under the Plan,
the timing of such grants, or the exercise price of options granted under the
Plan, which matters are specifically governed by the provisions of the Plan.
4. Eligible Directors. A person shall be eligible to receive grants
of options under this Plan (an "Eligible Director") if, at the time of the
option's grant, he or she is a duly elected or appointed member of the Company's
Board of Directors, 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.
5. Shares of Common Stock Subject to the Plan and Grant Limit. The
shares that may be issued upon exercise of options granted under the Plan shall
be authorized and unissued shares of the Company's Common Stock. The aggregate
number of shares that may be issued upon exercise of options granted under the
Plan shall not exceed 840,000 shares of Common Stock, subject to adjustment in
accordance with Article III, and no individual may
receive options under the Plan to purchase more than 120,000 shares of the
Company's Common Stock, subject to adjustment in accordance with Article III.
6. Amendment of the Plan. The Company's Board of Directors may,
insofar as permitted by law, 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
theretofore granted under the Plan without the consent of the person to whom
such option was granted. In addition, without further shareholder approval, the
Plan may not be amended so as to increase the number of shares subject to the
Plan (as adjusted under Article III), increase the number of shares for which an
option or options may be granted to any optionee (as adjusted under Article
III), change the class of persons eligible to receive options under the Plan,
provide for the grant of options having an exercise price per option share less
than the exercise price specified in the Plan, or extend the final date upon
which options may be granted under the Plan. Under no circumstances may the
provisions of the Plan that provide for the amounts, price, and timing of option
grants be amended more than once every six months, other than to comport with
changes in the Internal Revenue Code, ERISA, or the rules thereunder.
7. Term of Plan. Options may be granted under the Plan until
September 1, 2002, whereupon the Plan will terminate. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, each option granted under the Plan shall remain in effect until such
option has been exercised or terminated in accordance with its terms and the
terms of the Plan.
8. Grants Before Shareholder Approval. Option grants made before
this Plan has been approved by the Company's shareholders shall be made subject
to and effective only upon such approval.
9. Restrictions. All options granted under the Plan 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 options granted under the Plan 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 an option or the issuance, if any, or purchase of
shares in connection therewith, such option may not be exercised 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.
10. Nonassignability. No option granted under the Plan shall be
assignable or transferable by the grantee except by will or by the laws of
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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.
11. Withholding Taxes. Whenever shares of Common Stock are to be
issued upon exercise of an option granted under the Plan, the administrator
shall have the right to require the optionee to remit to the Company an amount
sufficient to satisfy any federal, state and local withholding tax requirements
prior to the delivery of any certificate or certificates for such shares. The
administrator may, in the exercise of its discretion, allow satisfaction of tax
withholding requirements by accepting delivery of stock of the Company or by
withholding a portion of the Common Stock otherwise issuable upon exercise of an
option.
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 on the date an option is granted under the Plan, shall
be: (a) if the Common Stock is listed on an established stock exchange or
exchanges, the mean between the highest and lowest sale prices of the Common
Stock quoted in the Transactions Index of each such exchange as averaged with
such mean price as reported on any and all other exchanges, as published in "The
Wall Street Journal" and determined by the Company, or, if no sale price was
quoted in any such Index for such date, then as of the next preceding date on
which such a sale price was quoted, provided that the mean on such preceding
date is not less than 100% of the fair market value of the Common Stock on the
date the option is granted; or, (b) if the Common Stock is not then listed on an
exchange, the average of the closing bid and asked prices per share for the
Common Stock in the over-the-counter market as quoted on NASDAQ on such date;
or, (c) if the Common Stock is not then listed on an exchange or quoted on
NASDAQ, an amount determined in good faith by the Company.
13. Rights as a Shareholder. An optionee or a transferee of an
option shall have no rights as a shareholder with respect to any shares issuable
or issued upon exercise of the option until the date of the receipt by the
Company of all amounts payable in connection with exercise of the option,
including the exercise price and any amounts required by the Company pursuant to
Section 11 of Article I.
14. Purchase for Investment. Unless the shares of Common Stock to be
issued upon exercise of an option granted under the Plan have been effectively
registered under the Securities Act of 1933 as now in force or
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hereafter amended, the Company shall be under no obligation to issue any shares
of Common Stock covered by any option unless the person who exercises such
option, in whole or in part, shall give a written representation and undertaking
to the Company which is satisfactory in form and scope to counsel to the Company
and upon which, in the opinion of such counsel, the Company may reasonably rely,
that he or she is acquiring the shares of Common Stock issued to him or her
pursuant to such exercise of the option for his or her own account as an
investment and not with a view to, or for sale in connection with, the
distribution of any such shares of Common Stock, and that he or she will make no
transfer of the same except in compliance with any rules and regulations in
force at the time of such transfer under the Securities Act of 1933, or any
other applicable law, and that if shares of Common Stock are issued without such
registration, a legend to this effect may be endorsed upon the securities so
issued.
ARTICLE II
STOCK OPTIONS
1. Grants of Initial Options.
(a) Each Eligible Director who becomes an Eligible Director in 1992
shall, upon first becoming an Eligible Director, receive a one-time grant of an
option to purchase up to 80,000 shares of the Company's Common Stock at an
exercise price of $2.50 per share, subject to (i) vesting as set forth in
Section 4 of Article II, and (ii) adjustment as set forth in Article III.
(b) Each Eligible Director who becomes an Eligible Director from
January 1, 1993 through April 17, 1996 shall, upon first becoming an Eligible
Director, receive a one-time grant of an option to purchase up to 80,000 shares
of the Company's Common Stock at an exercise price per share equal to 75% of the
fair market value of the Company's Common Stock on the date of his or her
election to the Board, subject to (i) vesting as set forth in Section 4 of
Article II, and (ii) adjustment as set forth in Article III.
(c) Each Eligible Director who becomes an Eligible Director after
April 17, 1996 shall, upon first becoming an Eligible Director, receive a one-
time grant of an option to purchase up to 80,000 shares of the Company's Common
Stock at an exercise price per share equal to the fair market value of the
Company's Common Stock on the date of his or her election to the Board, subject
to (i) vesting as set forth in Section 4 of Article II, and (ii) adjustment as
set forth in Article III.
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(d) Options granted under Sections 1(a), 1(b) and 1(c) of this
Article II are "Initial Options" for purposes hereof.
2. Grants of Additional Options. On each even-numbered (i.e. 2nd,
4th, 6th, 8th, 10th) anniversary of an Eligible Director's election to the
Board, if the Eligible Director has served as a director since his or her
election and is continuing as a director for at least another year, such
Eligible Director shall automatically be granted an "Additional Option" to
purchase up to 8,000 shares of the Company's Common Stock at an exercise price
equal to the fair market value of the Company's Common Stock on the date of
grant, subject to (i) vesting as set forth in Section 4 of Article II, and (ii)
adjustment as set forth in Article III. No individual may receive Additional
Options to purchase more than 40,000 shares of the Company's Common Stock
pursuant to this subsection.
3. Exercise Price. The option exercise price shall be payable upon
the exercise of an option in legal tender of the United States or such other
consideration as the administrator may deem acceptable, including without
limitation stock of the Company (delivered by or on behalf of the person
exercising the option or retained by the Company from the Common Stock otherwise
issuable upon exercise), provided, however, that the administrator may, in the
exercise of its discretion, (i) allow exercise of an option in a broker-assisted
or similar transaction in which the exercise price is not received by the
Company until immediately after exercise, and/or (ii) allow the Company to loan
the exercise price to the person entitled to exercise the option, if the
exercise will be followed by an immediate sale of some or all of the underlying
shares and a portion of the sales proceeds is dedicated to full payment of the
exercise price. Upon proper exercise, the Company shall deliver to the person
entitled to exercise the option or his or her designee a certificate or
certificates for the shares of Common Stock to which the option pertains.
4. Vesting and Exercise. Initial Options and Additional Options
shall vest and become exercisable 50% upon the first anniversary of the grant
date, if the optionee has remained an Eligible Director for the entire period
from the date of grant to the first anniversary thereof, and 50% upon the second
anniversary of the grant date, if the optionee has remained an Eligible Director
for the entire period from the date of grant to the second anniversary thereof.
5. Option Agreements. Each option granted under the Plan shall be
evidenced by an option agreement duly executed on behalf of the Company and by
the Eligible Director to whom such option is granted and stating the number of
shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the option, the exercise price,
the time during which the option is exercisable, and the times at which the
options vest and become exercisable. Such option agreements
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may but need not be identical and shall comply with and be subject to the terms
and conditions of the Plan, a copy of which shall be provided to each option
recipient and incorporated by reference into each option agreement. Each option
agreement may contain such other terms, provisions and conditions not
inconsistent with the Plan as may be determined by the administrator.
6. Term of Options and Effect of Termination. Notwithstanding any
other provision of the Plan, no Initial Options or Additional Options shall be
exercisable after the expiration of five years from the effective date of their
grant. In the event that any outstanding option under the Plan expires by
reason of lapse of time or is otherwise terminated without exercise for any
reason, then the shares of Common Stock subject to any such option which have
not been issued pursuant to the exercise of the option shall again become
available in the pool of shares of Common Stock for which options may be granted
under the Plan. In the event that the holder of any option granted under this
Plan shall cease to be a director of the Company for any reason, all options
granted under this Plan to such holder shall be exercisable, to the extent
already exercisable at the date such holder ceases to be a director, for a
period of 180 days after that date (or, if sooner, until the expiration of the
option according to its terms), and shall then terminate. In the event of the
death of an optionee while such optionee is a director of the Company or within
the period after termination of such status during which he or she is permitted
to exercise an option, such option may be exercised by any person or persons
designated by the optionee on a Beneficiary Designation Form adopted by the
administrator for such purpose or, if there is no effective Beneficiary
Designation Form on file with the Company, by the executors or administrators of
the optionee's estate or by any person or persons who shall have acquired the
option directly from the optionee by his or her will or the applicable laws of
descent and distribution.
ARTICLE III
RECAPITALIZATIONS AND REORGANIZATIONS
1. Anti-dilution Adjustments. The number of shares of Common Stock
available for issuance upon exercise of options granted under the Plan, the
maximum number of shares for which options granted under the Plan may be
exercised by any individual, the number of shares for which each option (issued
and unissued) can be exercised, and the exercise price per share of options
(issued and unissued) shall be proportionately adjusted for any increase or
decrease in the number of issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock
resulting from a subdivision or consolidation of shares or the payment of a
stock dividend or any other increase or decrease in the number of issued and
outstanding shares of Common Stock effected without receipt of consideration by
the Company. All share amounts and exercise prices set forth in this
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amended plan document have been restated to take into account, and give full
effect to, any and all stock splits implemented since the adoption and approval
of the Plan by shareholders on April 29, 1993 and before April 17, 1996.
2. Corporate Transactions. If the Company shall be the surviving
corporation in any merger or consolidation, each outstanding option shall
pertain to and apply to the securities to which a holder of the same number of
shares of Common Stock that are subject to that option would have been entitled.
A dissolution or liquidation or change in control of the Company, or a merger or
consolidation in which the Company is not the surviving corporation, shall cause
each outstanding option to terminate, unless the agreement of merger or
consolidation shall otherwise provide; provided that, in the event such
dissolution, liquidation, change in control, merger or consolidation will cause
outstanding options to terminate, each optionee shall have the right immediately
prior to such dissolution, liquidation, merger or consolidation or upon such
change in control to exercise his or her option or options in whole or in part
without regard to any vesting requirements. For purposes hereof, a "change in
control" shall be the acquisition by any person or entity of beneficial
ownership of 50% or more of the Company's outstanding voting securities.
3. Determination by the Company. To the extent that the foregoing
adjustments relate to stock or securities of the Company, such adjustments shall
be made by the administrator, whose determination in that respect shall be
final, binding and conclusive. The grant of an option pursuant to the Plan
shall not affect in any way the right or power of the Company to make
adjustments, reclassifications, reorganizations or changes of its capital or
business structure or to merge or to consolidate or to dissolve, liquidate or
sell, or transfer all of any part of its business or assets.
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