Pat Holtz (born 27 November 1968) is a
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
professional
pool player.
Career
Early life
He was born in
Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
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, Scotland and comes from a family of three older brothers and one younger sister, and has one daughter. Holtz has been playing pool for over twenty years and won many major honours in the game both at UK and American pool.
Playing career
In
UK pool he has been the number one ranked played in Scotland and top eight ranked player in the World (WEPF) rankings. Since taking up American pool in January 2006 he has gone on to be Scottish
9-Ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...
champion.
During the
2006 WPA Men's World Nine-ball Championship
The 2006 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was the seventeenth edition of the WPA World Nine-ball Championship and took place between 4 and 12 November 2006 at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay, Philippines. The event was to b ...
he won his group with three wins from three in the group stages, the round of 64 and the round of 32, but was eliminated in the round of 16 by
Wu Chia-ching, the defending champion. This performance secured him a spot in the 2007 edition of
the tournament, but he declined his invite.
In June 2007, he was one of 16 players invited by Matchroom Sport to compete in the
World Pool Masters The World Pool Masters is an annual international nine-ball tournament. Formerly, it was called the European Pool Masters (until 1995) until players from other parts of the globe were invited.
History
Throughout much of its history, the tournament ...
in the Netherlands. He won games over
Li He-Wen
Li Hewen (; born November 30, 1981, in Liaoning, China) is a Chinese professional pool player. He made it to the finals in the Vietnam leg of the 2006 WPA Asian Nine-ball Tour, but lost to Efren Reyes.
In 2006, Li Hewen reached the semi-finals ...
(China) and later an 8–5 victory over European top seed
Niels Feijen (the Netherlands) before bowing out the event 8–5 to
Mosconi Cup player
David Alcaide (Spain).
He was the
PPPO World Eight-ball Champion in 1996.
External links
Pat Holtz list of HonoursWorld Pool Masters, profile of Pat HoltzWorld 9 Ball Pool Championships, Pat Holtz profileWorld Cup of Pool, team Scotland profileScottish American Pool Players Association Rankings, No1 player Pat HoltzIreland's 9 Ball Tour, Hall of Fame, Pat Holtz profileWorld Eightball Pool Federation (WEPF), player rankings, No. 6 Pat Holtz
Scottish pool players
Living people
World champions in pool
Sportspeople from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
1968 births
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