LIV Golf has had a nightmare offseason. If you told CEO Scott O’Neil in October that by the new year Brooks Koepka would be back on the PGA Tour, Patrick Reed would be angling to follow him and OWGR points would still be MIA, he might be sitting on a beach sipping Mai Tais right now. Instead, he’s front and center on Fox’s splashy new graphic heralding the start of the 2026 LIV season … which just so happens to feature not one, not two, but THREE (!) misspelled player names. Ladies and gentleman, feast your eyes on this disasterpiece.
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The graphic features all 13 team captains, including Phil “Mickeslon,” Dustin “Jonhson” and Martin “Kraymer,” who sounds like the wacky neighbor from some Saudi Arabian knock-off of ‘Seinfeld.’ The graphic was live on X for nearly two-and-a-half hours before it was deleted, and even the league’s players began to notice.
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By all accounts, An was LIV Golf’s big offseason coup, and he’s already dragging the league on social media. That’s not what you want to see, but the Korean Golf Club captain does have a point. How do you spell names like “Byeong Hun An,” “Bryson Dechambeau” and “Louis Oosthuizen” correct but not “Dustin Johnson”? Plus, all three misspellings are major winners, and two of them shoe-in hall of famers. We’re not talking about Peter Uihlein here (sorry Pete).
In truth, we don’t know if this is entirely LIV Golf’s fault. Maybe they provided the faulty assets to Fox or maybe Fox designed them on their own. But either way—whether it’s LIV’s mistake or simply brazen disregard from their biggest broadcast partner—it’s an extremely bad look for the league. Now on the cusp of its fifth season, the league continues to botch the easy stuff, and if they can’t spell their players’ names right, they have no hope of competing with the PGA Tour.
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