website<\/a> are a number of clues as to what we can expect. <\/p>\nOriginally, three team names were listed for trademark consideration in October:<\/p>\n
Real Club de Toros GC<\/p>\n
Southern Balindi GC<\/p>\n
Becko East GC<\/p>\n
Now, Real Club de Toros has long been mooted as a rebrand of Sergio Garcia\u2019s Fireballs team \u2013 so it looks like the Spaniard is finally getting that over the line.<\/p>\n
Balindi, meanwhile, is a town in the south-east of India, near the country\u2019s border with Bangladesh, which might suggest a new team made up of players from the subcontinent. Currently, Anirban Lahiri, who plays on Bryson DeChambeau\u2019s Crushers, is the only player from that part of the world contracted to LIV.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
As for Becko East, your guess is as good as ours. (Though according to the Urban Dictionary, to becko is \u201cthe result of someone ingesting a mixed bucket of various\u00a0alcoholic\u00a0beverages and other party extras\u201d.)<\/p>\n
Then, in December, a fourth team name trademark request was filed:<\/p>\n
Again, your guess is as good as ours, but LIV Golf has submitted two trademark applications under each team name.<\/p>\n
The first is for \u201centertainment services in the nature of arranging, planning, organizing, conducting, and participating in professional golf tournaments, matches, competitions, and exhibitions\u201d as well as \u201cproviding sports news and information in the field of golf\u201d.<\/p>\n
The other is for \u201cclothing, namely, t-shirts, shirts, tank tops, jackets, coats, scarves, pants, shorts, skirts, skorts, trousers, sweaters, underwear, belts, and sweatshirts\u201d as well as \u201cheadwear, namely, hats, caps being hats, visors and bandanas\u201d and \u201cfootwear and socks\u201d.<\/p>\n
TG has reached out to LIV Golf for more information, and it is understood that these will be rebrands of existing teams rather than new franchises.<\/p>\n
So will it happen before the start of the now longer 2026 season<\/a>? <\/p>\nWatch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf has registered trademarks for four team names. Here\u2019s what we know so far\u2026 There will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-337403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}