Stewart Ginn

Stewart Ginn
Stewart Ginn
Personal information
Born	2 June 1949 (age 75); Melbourne, Australia
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	86 kg (190 lb; 13.5 st)
Sporting nationality	Australia
Residence	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Career
Turned professional	1971
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour of Australasia; European Tour; Japan Golf Tour; Champions Tour; European Seniors Tour
Professional wins	19
Number of wins by tour
European Tour	1
Japan Golf Tour	1
PGA Tour of Australasia	10
PGA Tour Champions	1
European Senior Tour	1
Other	4 (Regular); 1 (Senior)
Best results in major championships;
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	T21: 1976
Achievements and awards
PGA Tour of Australia; Order of Merit winner
PGA Tour of Australia; Order of Merit winner	1973

Stewart Ginn (born 2 June 1949) is an Australian professional golfer.

Ginn was born in Melbourne. He grew up behind the twelfth green of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club and started caddying at the age of ten. In the 1970s and 1980s he won several professional tournaments on the PGA Tour of Australasia and one on the European Tour, the 1974 Martini International. He also played regularly on the Asia Golf Circuit, winning three tournaments, and on the Japan Golf Tour, where he has one win. He won the inaugural PGA Tour of Australia Order of Merit in 1973.

As a senior, he played full-time on the U.S.-based Champions Tour from 2000 to 2004. His one official money win at that level came at one of the senior majors, the 2002 Senior Players Championship.^[1]

Professional wins (19)

This list may be incomplete.

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	8 Jun 1974	Martini International	−2 (71-71-71-73=286)	1 stroke	Brian Huggett

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	15 Oct 1995	Golf Digest Tournament	−17 (70-69-64-64=267)	2 strokes	Rick Gibson

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	18 Feb 1973	Tasmanian Open	−4 (72-67-66-75=280)	2 strokes	David Good, Ian Paul, Randall Vines
2	7 Oct 1973	North Coast Open	−9 (67-74-68-69=279)	5 strokes	Tom Linskey
3	2 Feb 1975	Tasmanian Open (2)	−8 (70-69-66-67=272)	Playoff	Ross Metherell
4	9 Feb 1975	Victorian Open	−5 (72-76-66-69=283)	3 strokes	Ian Stanley
5	9 Sep 1979	Joe Jansen New South Wales PGA Championship	−13 (68-71-69-67=275)	8 strokes	Richard Coombes
6	11 Nov 1979	Mayne Nickless Australian PGA Championship	E (71-72-69-72=284)	3 strokes	Bob Charles, Bob Shearer
7	9 Dec 1979	New Zealand Open	−6 (70-68-71-69=278)	3 strokes	Simon Owen
8	10 Feb 1980	Tattersall's Tasmanian Open (3)	−8 (68-67-72-73=280)	3 strokes	Brian Jones
9	2 Feb 1986	Foster's Tasmanian Open (4)	−7 (70-71-69-71=281)	Playoff	Magnus Persson
10	6 Oct 1991	Rothmans Malaysian Masters	−10 (70-70-70-68=278)	3 strokes	Nandasena Perera

PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (2–4)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1975	Tasmanian Open	Ross Metherell	Won with par on first extra hole
2	1976	Tasmanian Open	David Good, Brian Jones, Ian Stanley	Good won with birdie on fifth extra hole Ginn and Stanley eliminated by par on first hole
3	1976	Chrysler Classic	Bob Shearer	Lost to birdie on first extra hole
4	1979	Tooth's Gold Coast – Tweed Classic	Mike Ferguson	Lost to birdie on third extra hole
5	1979	Garden State Victorian PGA Championship	Ian Stanley	Lost to par on second extra hole
6	1986	Foster's Tasmanian Open	Magnus Persson	Won with birdie on second extra hole

Legend
Senior PGA Tour major championships (1)
Other Senior PGA Tour (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	8 Jun 2002	Ford Senior Players Championship	−14 (66-72-70-66=274)	1 stroke	Hubert Green, Mike McCullough, Jim Thorpe

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner-up
1	30 Mar 2008	Azores Senior Open	−5 (72-71-68=211)	2 strokes	Nick Job

European Senior Tour playoff record (0–1)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	2006	AIB Irish Seniors Open	Jerry Bruner, Guillermo Encina, Sam Torrance	Torrance won with eagle on second extra hole Encina and Ginn eliminated by birdie on first hole

Tournament	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
The Open Championship	CUT		T21	T46	CUT

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990
The Open Championship	T38	CUT									CUT

Note: Ginn only played in The Open Championship.

Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1981 Open Championship)
"T" = tied

Year	Championship	Winning score	Margin	Runners-up
2002	Ford Senior Players Championship	−14 (66-72-70-66=274)	1 stroke	Hubert Green, Mike McCullough, Jim Thorpe

^ "Ginn overcomes four-stroke deficit in final". ESPN. Associated Press. 14 July 2002.
^ "Ginn first in Open". The Canberra Times. 19 February 1973. p. 16. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
^ "Ginn takes Victorian Open". The Canberra Times. 10 February 1975. p. 12. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
^ "Golf: Ginn wins NSW PGA title". The Canberra Times. 10 September 1979. p. 13. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
^ "Golf: Stewart Ginn takes NZ Open". The Canberra Times. 10 December 1979. p. 16. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
^ "Ginn: from go to whoa". The Age. 11 February 1980. p. 31. Retrieved 28 October 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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