The season opener of LIV Golf is going to kick off soon in Mexico. This time a total of thirteen teams are taking part, with all eyes on Legion XIII, the team of Jon Rahm. Fans are curious to know how the new team will perform with a new set of players.
The team was officially unveiled on January 30, with the Saudi-backed league making a widespread announcement. But some eagle-eyed fans have spotted mistakes in that announcement. Due to this, the Saudi-backed league has come under fire from fans, and the reasons are rather hilarious.
The rival league makes a mistake announcing Jon Rahm’s team
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It is a rare occurrence that a well-established sports league comes under fire from fans due to spelling mistakes. But that unfortunately happened with LIV Golf. The Saudi-backed league sent out a press release on January 30, announcing Jon Rahm’s new team. However, they spelled the team name wrong – writing ‘Legion XII’ in place of Legion XIII.
Not only did LIV comms get Jon Rahm’s team name wrong in the press release yesterday, they spelt his name wrong in the graphic release today for the full season rosters! Can’t make it up 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/dTr0lBDWx8
— Flushing It (@flushingitgolf) January 31, 2024
Now the graphic release for the full season rosters of 2024 has come under fire from fans. While the names of all pre-established teams along with the players’ names were spelled correctly, Rahm’s team was once again left dry.
Specifically, the name of the team captain was spelled incorrectly! Instead of writing Jon Rahm, a new name was given to Legion XIII skipper – John Rahm.
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However, this humble mistake has triggered hilarious reactions from fans online. While some took shots at LIV Golf, some sympathized with the people who made these mistakes.
Fans poke fun at the expense of LIV Golf’s mistake
All eyes of the fans are on the latest big signing of LIV Golf, Jon Rahm. Naturally, the fans will pick up the mistakes made for the same. And it was truly unfortunate that the mistakes happened twice from LIV Golf’s end. So a fan tried to defend this mistake.
Agree, very embarrassing mistake for a multi billion dollar enterprise but I think we can agree it’s an honest mistake.
— Gerrit Cramer (@cramer_gerrit) January 31, 2024
Another fan supported this by stating the team names and player names can be hard to remember sometimes.
LIV team names are like Roller Derby names
— Fairway Sports Cards (@fairwaycards) January 31, 2024
However, the majority of fans had something else in mind. A fan poked fun at the fact that the Saudi-backed league made mistakes twice for their star signing.
The irony is hilarious.
— Ben Hogan 1953 (@TinCup2020) January 31, 2024
Another fan pointed out this mistake would not have occurred if the people making those posts loved the game.
There are 5 people working on the LIV Golf Comms team and not a single one of them plays golf, are fans of the game of golf, understand the rules of golf, the history of the game of golf, etc…it’s amateur hour over there & has been since the start
— Luckiest Golfers On Earth (@luckiestgolfer) January 31, 2024
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A fan had a rather interesting theory. They claimed the Saudi-backed league does not have enough money left for promotions now that they have offered multi-million dollar deals to poach golfers.
That’s hilarious!! I guess that’s what happens when you give all the money to the players??
— Better days are coming (@Animeisawesom14) January 31, 2024
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