Andrew Buckle

Buckle was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He has a promising amateur career, including two wins in the Boy's 15-17 division at the World Junior Golf Championships and one Australian Amateur Championship.
He won the 2002 Queensland Open on his professional debut. As a professional he has plied his trade all over the world, including time on the PGA Tour of Australasia and appearances in Europe and Japan. He joined the Asian Tour in 2005 and in 2006 he finished second in the Indonesia Open and the TCL Classic, which are both Asian Tour/European Tour co-sanctioned events. Also in 2006, he won his second professional event at Virginia Beach Open on the U.S. based Nationwide Tour.
He has performed consistently around the world and for a time in 2006 he was the only golfer in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Rankings who was not a member of one of the three richest under-50 men's tours (the PGA, European and Japanese tours), but he won a PGA Tour card at the 2006 Qualifying School.
Played in seven PGA European Tour events in 2003 and didn't make a cut. In 2004 in three starts only made cut once, 79th Heineken Classic. In five PGA European Tour events in 2003 made cut three times, best finish T17th Holden New Zealand Open.
2006 PGA European Tour Summary: Tournaments entered - 9; in money - 6; Top-10 finishes - 2; scoring average - 70.61 (ranked N/A); money �251,664 or £172,382 (ranked N/A); best finish 2nd, Enjoy Jakarta HSBC Indonesia Open, TCL Classic.
2006 Nationwide Tour Summary: Tournaments entered - 18; in money - 12; top-10 finishes - 6; Scoring average - 69.95 (ranked 4th) money $277,976 (ranked 13th); winner Virginia Beach Open.