I hope you guys are ready for a Wednesday Screencaps that includes an amateur athletic performance unlike anything you have seen this year. I’m talking a performance that you have never seen out of Tiger Woods.
All of you remember that I teased a golf video that was made while I was Up North at Garland Golf Resort in Lewiston, Michigan. Let me set this up by reminding you that this video was shot after I’d played somewhere around 152-154 holes of golf over five days. The USGA GHIN has me at an 18 handicap. It was 105 degrees with the humidity. The air wasn’t moving. I’m talking a complete heat dome over my head. My 2026 Thursday Night Mowing League polo was completely soaked with beer, transfusions, and other toxicants.
And then I pulled off this video — all single takes; no mulligans; no do-overs to make this look good for Facebook; no antics like these Facebook golf bros pull by fluffing balls in the rough — that my kids might think is pretty cool 20 years from now. Hopefully.
I’ll pat myself on the back over this one. The most impressive part is that I didn’t have to tell Garland social media manager Aubrey that I wanted to do another take. Some are even calling me One Take Kinsey.
Special thanks to Garland staff, including head pro Shane Riley. I introduced myself to Shane at the resort’s tiki bar on Sunday and he immediately INSISTED I would be guest starring on Tee Shot Tuesday. Shane didn’t even give me a chance to say ‘no.’ He stalked me.
I felt like a piece of meat, but he had faith in my abilities. The last guy I wanted to disappoint was Shane.
That’s the beauty of Garland. The people. Is Garland going to wow you with 200-foot drops on par 3s? Nope. Does it have the massive sweeping holes created out of ski resort valleys? Nope. But this resort has the best people in the golf hospitality business that we’ve found.
Trust me, we’ve been absolutely hosed by golf resorts. Two trips were completely ruined by one scumbag golf resort that I’ve sworn off. Our faith in Up North was restored by Garland GM Dave Sanderson and his staff. They have to hustle to keep up with the shiny resorts with those picturesque par 3s.
From Dave, Shane, Michelle the Cart Girl, Lisa the Cart Girl, Rob the Starter, Social Media Aubrey, Kristin the Crazy Waitress and on and on, I can’t say enough about these folks. Garland is like going to a friend’s house to party and play 100 holes of golf.
*Disclaimer: I paid for my trip! #notsponsored like some of these golf influencers. (Shane did give me the hat to wear for Tee Shot Tuesday because I was wearing a competitor’s hat and that wouldn’t be great for marketing.)
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14U baseball tournament UPDATE
Survive and advance is the name of the game. The No. 15 seed is still alive after a 7-4 victory via three strong innings out of my No. 3 starter and one inning out of our No. 1 to close the door and keep our hopes alive. For those of you keeping track at home, that’s now five straight wins. Opponents haven’t scored double-digits on us since June 13.
After an absolutely miserable start to the season where I was starting to question my love for the game, my faith has been restored. The boys are engaged, puffing out their chests and the confidence level is through the roof. I have kids barreling balls like I’ve never seen out of them.
This season turned around when us coaches (there are two of us unlike travel ball teams that need six dads in the dugout) challenged the boys to take ownership of their season. It was up to them and they’ve responded.
Up next: No. 2 seed Genoa. I think they’re like 14-2. I’m guessing they created one all-star team made up of kids who also play travel on weekends. They’ve run-ruled a bunch of teams, but I’m going to throw my ace and Screencaps Jr. at them and see what happens. Maybe they run out their No. 4 starter to save pitching and we catch them off-guard. Remember when the U.S. beat the Russians?
Kinsey: Yes, Jase, some people believe that. Then there are the rest of us who watched as Balogun was a non-factor because the guys who are supposed to get the ball to him aren’t great and our defense is led by a woke bartender. Trump’s team stood up for the soccer program. That’s smart leadership.
– Mark in Tucson says there’s a soccer academy here that will toughen U.S. soccer players: You don’t need Argentina to make kids suffer at soccer camp: Have you ever heard of Casa Grande, Arizona? It’s midway between Tucson and Phoenix. It’s HOT, it’s isolated, it’s in the middle of the desert, and it would probably suffice if you wanted to toughen up kids. The Barça Residency Academy USA is there, and due to the affiliation with FC Barcelona, presumably they’re serious about soccer.
But the backstory of the resort is incredible: The “resort” used to be the spring training headquarters of the San Francisco Giants. It was built in 1959, then became popular with Hollywood, with John Wayne spending enough time there that the restaurant is named after him. The Giants left for Scottsdale in 1980, and the resort pivoted and even closed for a while. It’s now a fancy soccer academy.
It’s still open, and feels like a time capsule. It’s jarring to see all the pictures of sports and entertainment legends that adorn the walls, and a bunch of kids in soccer gear hanging around, all in the middle of nowhere. That said, the food is surprisingly good. The baseball diamonds in the picture are now soccer fields, but the baseball bat shaped pool is still there, and it all still looks pretty much the same.
Thank you for your daily dose of sanity.
Kinsey: Yeah, but I want our teens to feel what it’s like to be desperate like the Argentinian boys. I want them to feel what it’s like to have an Argentinian baby mama to feed on a soccer contract. I need some of our white boys to come back as Argentinian hood rats. Our boys are already pampered. I need them to stay way from Arizona resorts.
Just when you’re about to settle in for the dog days of summer, Paige comes along and dumps out new bikini content. The world’s No. 1 ranked golf influencer, as named by the OutKick Culture Department, just gets it. Nobody knows the game like this woman.
– Beer Guy Neil in Cleveland emails: Hey Joe, thanks for the shout out on do hard things. I don’t know where I came across this tradition. It’s known as the Glacier View car launch and is real Americans launching driver-less beaters from a bluff to a beach. There’s a lot of filler to fast forward thru, but if you love carnage and chaos, you’re one of us. There’s gotta be an Alaskan screencap reader that can give a boots on the ground report. The lefties would lose their mind watching this!
Wyn in Colorado wants to know if this rig is TNML approved. 100%. Remember, being a member of the TNML isn’t about who can be the biggest Billy Badass in the sport. It’s about taking pride in property and community. If mowing in an AC cab with Def Leppard pumping in your ears helps get the job done, then go for it.
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And with that, I’m out this morning. I have a day of work to put in. Watch my golf video. Critique it. Tell me how good that 40-foot downhill putt was. Compliment my mental game.
Go have a great day.
