Local Golfer Conrad Shindler Wins First Web.com Event

I first remember seeing Conrad Shindler’s stout game at Vaquero GC playing along with Todd Hamilton in a friendly money match (Conrad won I believe while still in high school). Now, we text regularly during Tour events and I find it uncanny how good he is at predicting winning scores before the weekend rounds. That’s why he plays golf for a living and I absolutely do not.

Anyway, the ex-Aggie golfer earned his first Web.com win beating Chesson Hadley on the first playoff hole to take the Rex Hospital Open. The win moved him up to 5th on the money list to definitely lock up full Web.com status next year and probably secure his card for the PGA Tour next year with a few more decent finishes.

Hadley made a 1 1/2-putt to win after Hadley missed a 3-foot par try.

“I’m not going to lie, to have that 18-inch putt, I was shaking,” Shindler said. “You always dream of those moments, but when it comes down, you got to saddle up and still execute.”

“It’s going to take a couple days and seeing a couple pictures or looking at the trophy for it to really sink in, but it’s an incredible experience right now,” Shindler said. “You always dream of it. You always dream of picking up the trophy and to get to do it is unbelievable.”

A Shindler text this morning:

“This takes a ton of pressure off so I can take a week off there and there which does so much mentally.” 

Hadley had an understandably different take.

“That just sucks. That sucks so bad,” Hadley said. “It sucks to suck, but I’ve got to be proud with the way I played today. I’ve been playing terrible for two years, and I’ve been starting to trend a little bit. I trended last week, and this week I played some great golf. I certainly think I should have won this golf tournament, but I didn’t.”

Big congrats to Conrad. This first wins can free up mental barriers to leap a golfer to much greater heights.