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July 06, 2026 | Edition #340

👋 {{readername | Hey golf fans}},

Good evening and welcome to your nightly roundup. Charley Hull showed us again why she is… well, Charley Hull. The LPGA pro had a mic-drop moment in response to a troll. On the other hand, an analyst offered more clarity on why Rory McIlroy got leeway from the PGA Tour, and a golf influencer apologized to PGA pro Michael Block. 

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Chris Gotterup has won the John Deere Classic with his brother on the bag. But fewer than 10% can answer the unique record he made. Can you?

You Shipped an AI Feature. Your Database Felt It.

When you add AI to your app, the data profile changes overnight. Every prompt, response, and user interaction becomes a timestamped event. That's not your app's usual row count.

Vanilla Postgres handles it until it doesn't. Query times creep up. Dashboard refreshes slow down. You start reaching for a second database or a data pipeline to offload the load.

TimescaleDB extends Postgres for exactly this. It doesn't replace what's working. It makes Postgres stay fast as AI-generated data piles up.

Hypertables partition your data automatically as volume grows. Hypercore compression cuts storage 10x. Continuous aggregates keep your dashboards live without re-querying everything. No pipeline. No second database. No migration.

Same Postgres. Same SQL. Just built to handle what AI features actually generate.

This wasn’t the first time the Chacarra siblings matched one another’s achievement. In 2022, Eugenio, then a senior at Oklahoma State, shot a final-round 10-under 62 to claim the Amer Ari Invitational on February 8. Carolina, then a freshman at Wake Forest, took barely three days to match her brother. She carded a 10-under 62 in the final round en route to her UCF Challenge victory in Orlando.

After Chris Gotterup’s John Deere Classic victory, we are curious to know…

Which Golfer Would You Most Like To See Win Their First PGA Tour Event?

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Last Poll Result: 70.19% of you don’t want to see more YouTube golfers playing in professional tournaments.



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