Sporting organisation and a stick (4,4)
I believe the answer is:
golf club
'a stick' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'sporting organisation' is the wordplay.
'sporting' becomes 'golf' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'organisation' becomes 'club' (club is a kind of organization).
'golf'+'club'='GOLF-CLUB'
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for golf club that I've seen before include "Wood, possibly" , "Sports association - sporting equipment" , "Baghdad its capital" , "nineteenth hole" , "Driver, perhaps" .)