The 2024 season of LIV Golf is just around the corner and they have a new set of challengers! With the addition of Jon Rahm‘s new team, the clash between golf powerhouses will be an interesting watch. In this team, former Ryder Cup teammate Tyrrell Hatton, along with Kieran Vincent and Caleb Surratt, joins Rahm.

But fans would be curious to know the story behind the unique name of the team, Legion XIII. Furthermore, the logo donned by the team also carries a story behind it. And the team captain himself shed some light on this topic recently.

Jon Rahm on Legion XIII’s logo

After the team was unveiled on January 30, the entire team sat down in Mayakoba for a press conference the next day. During the event, the question of Legion XIII’s unique logo containing a lion came up. And the team captain was happy to come up with a response!

Jon Rahm shared that Athletic Bilbao, a soccer club and his favorite team, was an influence in making the logo. They are unofficially called the Lions, and he wanted to incorporate that in his team’s logo.

“Then this style of the lion and then the lettering is basically where I try to use my ancestry and my ties to the Basque country where I’m from, and they use a lot of the writing that you would see there to create the actual logo,” he said.

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Furthermore, the Legion XIII team captain also shared the influences behind the team’s name. And this name is something he is proud of coming up with!

The reason behind Legion XIII’s team name

Like the reason behind the lion logo of his team, many things also influenced Jon Rahm to keep the current name. Since the Ryder Cup win in Rome, the gladiator theme mesmerized the LIV golfer.

While brainstorming names for his new team, he shared an instance, “At some point, somebody said Legion XIII, that we were going to be the 13th team, and I and my wife and a couple of other people kind of looked at each other like, it has a better ring than other things.”

With the team named after gladiators and a lion in their logo, the newest team of LIV Golf will be thinking of blazing past their competition. What do you think about the Legion XIII name and logo?

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