Stewart Ginn
Personal information
Born (1949-06-02) 2 June 1949 (age 74)
Melbourne, Australia
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight86 kg (190 lb; 13.5 st)
Sporting nationality Australia
ResidenceKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Career
Turned professional1971
Former tour(s)European Tour
Japan Golf Tour
Asia Golf Circuit
PGA Tour of Australasia
Champions Tour
European Seniors Tour
Professional wins19
Number of wins by tour
European Tour1
Japan Golf Tour1
PGA Tour of Australasia9
PGA Tour Champions1
European Senior Tour1
Other5 (Regular)
1 (Senior)
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenDNP
The Open ChampionshipT21: 1976
Achievements and awards
PGA Tour of Australia
Order of Merit winner		1973

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

Early life

Ginn was born in Melbourne. He grew up behind the twelfth green of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Early in his life "he used to caddy at Royal Melbourne." He then moved on to be a golf manager at the club.[1]

Professional career

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. In 1979 he won the Australian PGA Championship at Royal Melbourne at 284 (E). He defeated Bob Shearer and Bob Charles by three shots.[1]

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.[2]

Professional wins (19)

European Tour wins (1)

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

PGA of Japan Tour wins (1)

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 Canada Rick Gibson

Asia Golf Circuit wins (3)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner-up
1 13 Mar 1977 Malaysian Open −12 (76-67-63-70=276) 1 stroke Japan Katsunari Takahashi
2 9 Mar 1986 Benson & Hedges Malaysian Open (2) −8 (70-69-67-70=276) 1 stroke Australia Brian Jones
3 29 Mar 1992 Wills Indian Open −4 (68-73-70-73=284) 2 strokes United States Aaron Meeks

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (9)

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 Australia David Good, Australia Ian Paul,
Australia Randall Vines
2 7 Oct 1973 North Coast Open −9 (67-74-68-69=279) 5 strokes Australia Tom Linskey
3 2 Feb 1975 Tasmanian Open (2) −8 (70-69-66-67=272) Playoff Australia Ross Metherell
4 9 Feb 1975 Victorian Open −5 (72-76-66-69=283) 3 strokes Australia Ian Stanley
5 9 Sep 1979 Joe Jansen New South Wales PGA Championship −13 (68-71-69-67=275) 8 strokes New Zealand Richard Coombes
6 11 Nov 1979 Mayne Nickless Australian PGA Championship E (71-72-69-72=284) 3 strokes New Zealand Bob Charles, Australia Bob Shearer
7 10 Feb 1980 Tattersall's Tasmanian Open (3) −8 (68-67-72-73=280) 3 strokes Australia Brian Jones
8 2 Feb 1986 Foster's Tasmanian Open (4) −7 (70-71-69-71=281) Playoff Sweden Magnus Persson
9 6 Oct 1991 Rothmans Malaysian Masters −10 (70-70-70-68=278) 3 strokes Sri Lanka Nandasena Perera

PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (2–4)

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

Sources:[3][4][5][6][7]

New Zealand Golf Circuit wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner-up
1 9 Dec 1979 New Zealand Open −6 (70-68-71-69=278) 3 strokes New Zealand Simon Owen

Other Australasian wins (1)

Senior PGA Tour wins (1)

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 United States Hubert Green, United States Mike McCullough,
United States Jim Thorpe

European Seniors Tour wins (1)

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

European Seniors Tour playoff record (0–1)

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

Other senior wins (1)

Results in major championships

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

Senior PGA Tour major championships

Wins (1)

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

Team appearances

References

  1. ^ a b "Ex-caddy Ginn wins Australian PGA title". Arizona Republic. 12 November 1979. p. 51. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Ginn overcomes four-stroke deficit in final". ESPN. Associated Press. 14 July 2002.
  3. ^ "Ginn first in Open". The Canberra Times. 19 February 1973. p. 16. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Ginn takes Victorian Open". The Canberra Times. 10 February 1975. p. 12. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Golf: Ginn wins NSW PGA title". The Canberra Times. 10 September 1979. p. 13. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Golf: Stewart Ginn takes NZ Open". The Canberra Times. 10 December 1979. p. 16. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  7. ^ "Ginn: from go to whoa". The Age. 11 February 1980. p. 31. Retrieved 28 October 2020.

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