LIV Golf has registered trademarks for three team names. Here’s what we know so far…
There will be some new teams to follow on LIV Golf in the not too distant future.
In the wake of the news that the league will be switching its events from 54 holes to the more traditional 72 holes, it looks like each of the 54-man fields will be expanded too.
Over on the United States Patent and Trademark Office website are a number of clues as to what we can expect.
The three team names listed for trademark consideration are:
Real Club de Toros GC
Southern Balindi GC
Becko East GC
Now, Real Club de Toros has long been mooted as a rebrand of Sergio Garcia’s Fireballs team – so it looks like the Spaniard is finally getting that over the line.
Balindi, meanwhile, is a town in the south-east of India, near the country’s border with Bangladesh, which might suggest a new team made up of players from the subcontinent. Currently, Anirban Lahiri, who plays on Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers, is the only player from that part of the world contracted to LIV.
It would certainly make sense. TG understands LIV Golf is keen to create more teams that have more of a geographical identity to join the existing all-Australian Ripper GC, all-South African Stinger GC, and Torque GC, which is made up of players from Latin America.
As for Becko East, your guess is as good as ours. (Though according to the Urban Dictionary, to becko is “the result of someone ingesting a mixed bucket of various alcoholic beverages and other party extras”.)
LIV Golf has submitted two trademark applications under each team name.
The first is for “entertainment services in the nature of arranging, planning, organizing, conducting, and participating in professional golf tournaments, matches, competitions, and exhibitions” as well as “providing sports news and information in the field of golf”.
The other is for “clothing, namely, t-shirts, shirts, tank tops, jackets, coats, scarves, pants, shorts, skirts, skorts, trousers, sweaters, underwear, belts, and sweatshirts” as well as “headwear, namely, hats, caps being hats, visors and bandanas” and “footwear and socks”.
TG has reached out to LIV Golf for more information – but what we do know is the last time they filed a similar request was for “Legion XIII”, a couple of weeks before Jon Rahm jumped ship for a reported $450 million.
So will it happen before the start of the now longer 2026 season?
Watch this space.
