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July 22, 2026 | Edition #362 |
👋 {{readername | Hey golf fans}},
Imagine this: you sign up for a tournament. You start playing, and after a few holes your playing mate notices you are violating a rule. You report to the rules official to get clarity, and you find out… you’re DQed. That’s what happened to a golfer, and he later said he was not informed about the rule. Find all about that and other stories from the golf world in today’s edition.
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The player says a lack of communication led to a disqualification after he voluntarily reported the incident to a rules official.
Tiger Woods won the 2000 U.S. Open by a record-setting 15 strokes. But can you tell which historic course hosted the tournament? 82% of our readers got it wrong.
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.
Augusta National has started sending out emails confirming to patrons whether they were lucky enough to get a Masters ticket for next year. That makes us curious to know…
Have You Ever Entered the Masters Ticket Lottery?
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Wyndham Clark had the highest final-round score of a tournament winner this year. He carded 3-over 73 on Sunday at Shinnecock Hills and still won the U.S. Open at 4-over, which also happened to be this season's highest winning score. A month later, Ryan Fox had the highest opening round by an eventual winner. The Aussie posted a 2-over 72 on Thursday at Birkdale. Interestingly enough, Clark also holds the record for the lowest finish by an eventual winner this year. He fired a 60 in the final round of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson.
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