Heinz Peter Thül

Heinz Peter Thül
Personnel
Nation:	Germany
Career data
Professional since:	1980
Tournament wins:	4th
Awards:	Teacher of the Year (2002)

Heinz Peter Thül

Heinz Peter Thül (born July 23, 1963 in Cologne ) is a German professional golfer .

Career

Thül, who began playing golf at the age of eight, has taken part in 350 national and international tournaments in his three-decade career. He is a PGA golf instructor, was "Teacher of the Year" in 2002 and has been training the Playing Pro Team with Martin Hasenbein since 2001. The five-time German champion Thül, who lives in Overath near Cologne, has won the European Challenge Tour four times and in 1989 won the Torneo dei Campioni and the Ramlösa Open. Two years later he won the Neuchatel Open. He repeated this success in 1992. In 1989, the PGA European Qualifying School also decided in his favor. Thül has made 23 appearances in international matches. He competed seven times for Germany in the Alfred Dunhill Cup and four times in the World Cup. Thül, who was the German No. 2 in professional golf at Bernhard Langer's wedding , is an expert when it comes to the short game around the greens and course tactics. His services as a golf coach are in demand nationwide. He is a short game speaker for the PGA of Germany and has been part of the Gregor Tilch Golf Academy team at the Stolper Heide golf club in Berlin, a 36-hole course north of Berlin, since 2012.

Others

Thül was struck by lightning in the first round at the 13th hole of the Spanish Open in 1993, but was able to continue playing.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official website of Heinz Peter Thül
2. ↑ Profile on www.professionalgolfservice.de ( Memento from June 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Heinz Peter Thül in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
4. ↑ "Results without national leagues - golf", Sport-Bild from May 19, 1993, p. 70