Everything they forgot to tell you.
Golf's picking up new players faster than anyone's explaining how to actually behave out there. Unwritten Round covers the stuff experienced golfers know and nobody ever taught the rest of us. No judgment, no gatekeeping.
UNWRITTEN
ROUND
Nobody's had this conversation honestly.
Most golf etiquette content is either condescending, outdated, or stuck in a rulebook nobody actually reads. Meanwhile a lot of new players, women especially, are showing up on courses that weren't really built with them in mind. Unwritten Round is just two people covering the parts nobody explained to them either.
Two handicaps, one clubhouse.
Jon
He's been playing since he was seven, and it shows. Ask him why something is or isn't done on a course and he'll actually have an answer, not just a shrug. Keeps swing tips to himself unless you ask for them.
Janice
Four years into the game and still working out where she fits in a sport that wasn't exactly built with her in mind. That question is a big part of why this show exists in the first place.
Birdie
Their golden retriever. Shows up in the logo, greets everyone at the door, and has never once complained about slow play.
Everything They Forgot To Tell You
The companion guide to the show, written the way Jon wishes someone had written it for him: no lectures, no judgment, just the etiquette a friend would actually walk you through before your next round. Five parts, plus a "From the Author" note on learning the game from his own father at seven years old.
The Guide
The full guide as a PDF. Read it on your phone the night before a round, or keep it in your bag for reference.
Get the PDFThe Guide, in Print
The same guide as a paperback, printed and shipped by Amazon. No inventory to wait on, ordered like any other book.
Not yet availableThe Course Edition
A spiral-bound premium edition with real tab dividers by section, built to lay flat and flip fast between holes. Produced in small batches.
Join the waitlistThe Drop Zone.
Every episode ends with a listener's story, sent in anonymous. Send yours and it might be the one Jon reads on air next.
dropzone@unwrittenround.comEmail your story to dropzone@unwrittenround.com. Leave your name out of it, that's kind of the point.
Jon reads it cold on the show. Janice is hearing it for the first time right along with you.
They talk through what actually happened and what they'd have done in your shoes.
You find out if yours made the cut, same as everyone else listening.