News · IndustryCompliance Solutions set to back the Austin Championship
Compliance Solutions, which sponsors a Korn Ferry Tour event, is expected to be named presenting sponsor of the PGA TOUR's Austin Championship, played 12 to 15 November. The one-year deal is reported to be worth less than Good Good's $6 million.
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This week in golf 26 Oct – 1 Nov 2026
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Winner report · PGA TOUR ChampionsSabbatini comes from four back with a 62 to win the Stifel Charity Classic
Winner report · Ladies European TourPhatlum wins a fourth Women's Indian Open, 18 years after her first
Winner report · DP World TourKatsuragawa wins in Korea and climbs to 28th in the Race to Dubai
Winner report · Asian TourCatlin's 64 wins Hong Kong Open by five as LIV co-leaders fade
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// Tournaments
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Equipment
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Comparison · TechForesight GC2 vs Rapsodo MLM2XPRO: measured spin or club data
Analysis · DriversTaylorMade's Qi4D sleeve: 0.75° more loft closes the face 1.5°
Winners' equipment · Fairways & hybridsWinners' bags: Yoshida has won all five titles with a 2021 3-wood
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Course management · Course managementApproach from the rough: read the lie before the yardage
Instruction · Iron playBall above your feet: why the wedge goes further left than the 7-iron
Course management · Course managementPlaying the Percentages, part 3: why driver usually beats laying back
Course management · Course managementFairway bunkers: measure the lip before you pick the club
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Features
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Feature · PeopleTwo Australians in their fifties play for a Masters invitation
Graham Hourn, 58, works 12-hour shifts at a Queensland coal mine. Richard Heath, 55, spent 15 years at the European Golf Association. Both tee off for Australia at Te Arai Links on Thursday.
Feature · CommunityGlasgow earmarks Linn Park land for housing as volunteers revive it
Three men from Castlemilk have cut most of a closed council course back into play. Glasgow's new development plan earmarks part of it for housing, and objections close on 18 November.
Feature · HistoryThe £25 belt whose small print cancelled the 1871 Open
Prestwick's first Open, played 166 years ago this Saturday, came with a three-in-a-row rule. Neither Park nor Morris managed it; Morris's son did, and there was no Open in 1871.
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The 19th Hole
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Humour · Club golfThe club suggestions book: October's entries, answered
The flagstick, the three-minute search, the 40-second putt, the clocks going back and preferred lies: The 19th Hole opens a month of the members' suggestions book, and the secretary replies with the Rules of Golf.
Humour · Club golfThe club prize-giving night, in the order it always runs
Andrea Lee won a car with an ace in South Korea. Club golfers get a raffle, a roast dinner and a trophy too heavy to hold: The 19th Hole's running order for the end-of-season presentation evening.
Humour · Golf lifeThe owner's manual that should come with every new driver
Specifications, settings, care, a troubleshooting table and a warranty clause: The 19th Hole writes the driver handbook the box leaves out, using what the Rules of Golf and the Equipment Rules say.