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Staff Directory
Heintz, Bob
Bob Heintz
- Title:
- Duan Family Men's Golf Head Coach
- Email:
- Phone:
- (919) 681-2578
Heintz joined the Duke men’s golf program as assistant coach on Feb. 10, 2017, and was named the program's eighth all-time head coach on June 26, 2025.
With Heintz on the coaching staff, Duke men’s golf has claimed 15 team titles, including the 2017 ACC Championship. In postseason play, Duke has earned a berth to an NCAA regional in every possible season and has advanced to the NCAA Championship four times as a team, including an appearance in the 2018 match-play semifinals. Both Ethan Evans and Bryan Kim have represented Duke at the 2024 and 2025 NCAA Championships, respectively, as individuals, with Heintz serving as the on-course coach.
In his eight seasons, Heintz has helped the Blue Devils set the top eight team season scoring averages in program history, and Duke has posted a program-low 54-hole score of 41-under, 823, two separate times with Heintz on the staff.
Four separate Blue Devils have been named an All-American at least once with Heintz on the coaching staff. Evan Katz and Adrien Pendaries were Second Team PING All-America selections in 2020. Chandler Eaton took home honorable mention All-America recognition from both PING and Golfweek in 2018 before being named Second Team All-America by Golfweek and Third Team All-America by PING in 2019. Alex Smalley was a Second Team All-America pick by both PING and Golfweek in 2018 and 2019.
Eaton was an Academic All-America selection by CSC in 2020 and the Blue Devils have logged a total of 31 Srixon/Cleveland All-American Scholars since Heintz arrived in Durham in 2017. Duke has had at least three Academic All-ACC honorees in all eight possible years that Heintz has been a part of the Duke coaching staff, after selections were not made in 2020 due to COVID-19.
A six-time full PGA Tour card member, Heintz previously served as head coach of the University of Pennsylvania men’s golf program from September of 2012 until February of 2017. He was named the inaugural Ivy League Coach of the Year in 2015 after leading the Quakers to the team title in the Ivy League Championship. While at Penn, he also served as instructor at Applecross Country Club, providing instruction in individual, class and camp settings, covering such topics as putting, short game, wedge play, course management and full swing analysis.
With Heintz as head coach, Penn secured five team titles and saw four individuals claim medalist honors at an event. The Quakers also logged six First Team All-Ivy selections and in 2015, Austin Powell became the first Penn player to earn Ivy League Player of the Year honors.
Heintz highlighted his professional playing career with six full seasons on the PGA TOUR, headlined by a second-place finish at the Reno-Tahoe Open in 2010, which combined with six top-10 and 15 top-25 finishes helped Heintz secure career earnings of more than $2.2 million as a PGA TOUR member. His best finish in the FedExCup came during the 2007 campaign, where he made 27 PGA TOUR starts and finished inside the top-10 in back-to-back weeks with ties for fifth at both the U.S. Bank Championship and the Canadian Open.
He also made nearly 200 starts on what is currently know as the Korn Ferry Tour, where he tallied two victories, two second-place finishes, seven top-five’s, 14 top-10 and 42 top-25’s, en route to just shy of $630,000 in earnings. Both of his victories came during the 1999 season, where he claimed the title at the NIKE Shreveport Open and then closed the season with a playoff victory in the NIKE Tour Championship.
Heintz was a consistent leader in putting during his professional career, including leading the PGA TOUR in 2002 for putts per round (27.57) and one-putt percentage (46.8), while also setting a putting average of 1.682 that stood as the single-season PGA TOUR record until the 2021-22 PGA TOUR season. During the 2003 and 2004 Korn Ferry Tour seasons, Heintz finished first for putts per round in both seasons, at 27.67 and 28.30, respectively. In 2009, he topped the PGA TOUR leaderboard for three-putt avoidance (1.6 percent) and finished 13th for stroke gained through putting (.601).
As a professional, Heintz played in more than 300 events, earning nearly $3 million and recording 20 top-10 finishes. In 2000, he penned “Bob Heintz’ PGA Tour Rookie Diary” for SportsIllustrated.com.
Heintz’s first foray into the coaching ranks was a three-year stint as volunteer assistant golf coach at the University of South Florida (1992-94). During that time, he supervised team practices with a focus on short-game training and played alongside the team to assess skills and critique course management.
As a collegiate golfer, Heintz played four seasons at Yale University, where he graduated in 1992 with a degree in economics. He is the only player in Ivy League history to win three consecutive Ivy League individual titles, accomplishing the feat from 1990-92, including a 13-shot victory in the final leg of the three-peat. He was a three-time All-Ivy selection, one of just 27 players in Ivy League history to do so, and as a senior, Heintz served as team captain before being named an Academic All-America selection following the season.
Heintz and his wife, Nancy, have a daughter, Eryn, and three sons, PJ, Dan and Brody.
(updated 6/26/25)
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