Scottish amateur champion of 1988 and 1989, Drew joined the mass intake to the professional ranks for the 1991/92 season. He made a good start, reaching the last 64 stage of three ranking events and going one stage further in one of them and ending his first season a very creditable 87th. By the end of the next he was in the top 64 after reaching the last 16 of the International Open.

In 1993/94 he got past the qualifying stage of five events including the world championships made the last 16 in the UK and found himself up to 39th. He moved a little closer to the top 32 the next season with one last-16 and three other last-32 finishes but then his progress stopped. In 1995/96, even though he reached his first quarter-final, in the Regal Welsh, and made a second visit to the Crucible, he failed to qualify six times and dropped back to 40th. It was a similar story over the next three seasons with too many first round defeats and never getting past the last 32, and he slipped back each season ending down at 45th.

Things began to look up in with last-16 finishes in both the UK and Regal Welsh and, on his third visit to the Crucible, he beat Mark King to reach the second round before going out to the eventual winner, Mark Williams. This success put him into the top 32 at last at number 29. With new found confidence he reached the quarter final of the 2000 UK championship and in the next event went one better, to the semi-final of the China Open. Another semi-final came before the season was out, in the Scottish Open.

He was now up to 18th and provisionally well place to enter the top 16. Sadly however he did not do as well in 2001/02 with only one last-16 place to show for his efforts and actually slipped back four places. Although competition for places in the elite is very fierce, there is no doubt that he has the ability to join that club if he can find some real consistency.
 

Achievements:

2002 Scottish Masters Qualifier - Winner

2002 B&H Championship quarter finalist

2002 UK Championship semi-finalist

2001 Scottish Open - Semi Final

2000 World Professional Championship - Last sixteen
2000 China Open - semi-finalist
2000 UK Championship - quarter-finalist

1996 Welsh Open - quarter-finalist
1988, 1989 Scottish Amateur champion