Charlie graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2009 following a successful amateur career. As a university student in America, Charlie had much success in a number of tournaments including the Turtle Bay Intercollegiate in 2007 where he set the school and tournament low scoring record.

He won all SEC and all American Honors at the University of Tennessee and had many victories as part of the England and Great Britain teams. These included wins in The European Team Championships in 2008 and 2009 and the European Nations Cup in 2009.

In 2009 Charlie won The Pines Trophy at Hillside and finished second and third respectively in the Avondale Amateur and the Lake Macquarie in Sydney. Charlie progressed easily through to the Final Stage at European Tour Qualifying School in 2009 where he comfortably made the cut and gained his Challenge Tour card for 2010 with a category 14 ranking on The European Tour.

In just his second Challenge Tour event in 2010, Charlie recorded his first victory as a professional, winning the Turkish Challenge. This put him in a good position to gain his European Tour card for 2011 but narrowly missed out finishing twenty second in the rankings.

Charlie failed to progress from European Tour qualifying school in 2011 and will play most of his golf in 2012 on the Challenge Tour