BRADENTON, Fla. – Ollie Schniederjans knew what to expect his senior year of college. He wishes he’d handled it better.
The relentless hype and the world’s No. 1 ranking … the distractions of lining up representation and sponsorship and a place to live … the anxiousness watching his early-20s peers – his friends – win a major and cash huge checks and boost their profile … the soul-searching and the frustration … the sit-down meeting and the humbling discoveries … and then, finally, the recommitment to what got him here.
Schniederjans braced himself for a year unlike any other, and he still was flattened by it.