diff --git a/hack/make-rules/verify.sh b/hack/make-rules/verify.sh
index 30a9a5bf7db..a4cca064e14 100755
--- a/hack/make-rules/verify.sh
+++ b/hack/make-rules/verify.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ source "${KUBE_ROOT}/third_party/forked/shell2junit/sh2ju.sh"
 EXCLUDED_PATTERNS=(
   "verify-all.sh"                # this script calls the make rule and would cause a loop
   "verify-*-dockerized.sh"       # Don't run any scripts that intended to be run dockerized
-  "verify-golangci-lint-pr.sh"   # Don't run this as part of the block pull-kubernetes-verify yet. TODO(pohly): try this in a non-blocking job and then reconsider this.
+  "verify-golangci-lint-pr.sh"   # Runs in a separate job for PRs.
+  "verify-golangci-lint-hints.sh" # Runs in a separate job for PRs.
   "verify-licenses.sh"           # runs in a separate job to monitor availability of the dependencies periodically
   "verify-openapi-docs-urls.sh"  # Spams docs URLs, don't run in CI.
   )
diff --git a/hack/verify-golangci-lint-pr-hints.sh b/hack/verify-golangci-lint-pr-hints.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..7c51f3052a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hack/verify-golangci-lint-pr-hints.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Copyright 2022 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# This script checks a PR for the coding style for the Go language files using
+# golangci-lint. It does nothing when invoked as part of a normal "make
+# verify".
+
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+if [ ! "${PULL_NUMBER:-}" ]; then
+  echo 'Not testing anything because this is not a pull request.'
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/..
+
+"${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/verify-golangci-lint.sh" -r "${PULL_BASE_SHA}" -n
diff --git a/hack/verify-golangci-lint-pr.sh b/hack/verify-golangci-lint-pr.sh
index 101cae1dedb..689028add30 100755
--- a/hack/verify-golangci-lint-pr.sh
+++ b/hack/verify-golangci-lint-pr.sh
@@ -28,12 +28,4 @@ fi
 
 KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/..
 
-# include shell2junit library
-source "${KUBE_ROOT}/third_party/forked/shell2junit/sh2ju.sh"
-
-# TODO (https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/issues/17056):
-# take this additional artifact and convert it to GitHub annotations
-# to make it easier to see these problems during a PR review.
-#
-# -g "${ARTIFACTS}/golangci-lint-githubactions.log"
-juLog -output="${ARTIFACTS:-/tmp/results}" -class="golangci" -name="golangci-strict-pr" -fail="^ERROR: " "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/verify-golangci-lint.sh" -r "${PULL_BASE_SHA}" -s
+"${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/verify-golangci-lint.sh" -r "${PULL_BASE_SHA}" -s