Retired professional tennis player Earl Butch Buchholz has an estimated net worth of $7 million in 2012. He is known as the founder of Lipton International Players Championships, now considered as one of the leading and most prominent events on both men and women's tours.

Currently, Butch Buchholz is married to his wife, Marilyn. He has three children named Kathy, Trey and  Kristen.

Butch Buchholz was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 16, 1940. In his junior years,    he became an outstanding tennis player after winning Boys' Singles slam titles four times in a row from 1958–1959. He won the U.S. Open, French Open and Wimbledon in 1958 and in 1959, he won the Australian Open.

In 1961, Buchholz turned professional and by 1962, he went home victorious after the United States Pro Championship. After his retirement, he served as the Commissioner of World Team Tennis from 1977 to 1978. And from 1981 through 1982, he worked for Association of Tennis Professionals  as the Executive Director. In 2005, Butch Buchholz was officially inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at Newport, Rhode Island.