Pat Holtz

Pat Holtz is a Scottish professional pool player, born on November 27, 1968, in Hamilton, Scotland. He has been playing pool for over twenty years and has won major honours in both UK and American pool. In UK pool he was the number one ranked player in Scotland and a top eight player in the World Eightball Pool Federation rankings, and after taking up American pool in January 2006 he became Scottish 9-Ball champion. At the 2006 WPA Men's World Nine-ball Championship he won his group with three wins from three before losing in the round of 16 to Wu Jia-qing, and in 2007 he beat Niels Feijen at the World Pool Masters. He was the PPPO World Eight-ball Champion in 1996.