What to wear, where to sit, and how to order a drink without announcing yourself.
In Good Standing
The field guide to behaving well. A complete etiquette manual in the spirit of The Official Preppy Handbook.
Deadpan. Exhaustive. Hiding something.
What's inside
Pace, caddies, gimmes, and the difference between confidence and presumption.
How to be invited back. The whole weekend, from the practice tee to the thank-you note.
Buried in the pages. One correct answer, for anyone patient enough to find it.
Golf etiquette books exist; most read like homeowners' association minutes. In Good Standing is written the way the knowledge is actually passed — deadpan, specific, and slightly amused — covering the clubhouse, the course, the member-guest, and every situation where the rules are unwritten precisely so that someone can enjoy watching you break them.
It grew out of the same reporting as the weekly newsletter — expanded, organized, and printed on paper worth keeping on the shelf by the door. And somewhere in its pages, a cipher, with one correct answer.
One correct answer, for anyone patient enough to find it.
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