Stewart Ginn


Stewart Ginn 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.

Professional wins (19)

European Tour wins (1)

Japan Golf Tour wins (1)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (10)

PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record
No.YearTournamentOpponentResult
11975Tasmanian Open Ross MetherellWon with par on first extra hole
21976Chrysler Classic Bob ShearerLost to birdie on first extra hole
31979Tooth's Gold Coast – Tweed Classic Mike FergusonLost to birdie on third extra hole
41979Garden State Victorian PGA Championship Ian StanleyLost to par on second extra hole
51986Foster's Tasmanian Open Magnus PerssonWon with birdie on second extra hole

Other Australasian wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runners-up
18 Jun 2002Ford Senior Players Championship−14 1 stroke Hubert Green, Mike McCullough,
Jim Thorpe

European Senior Tour wins (1)

European Senior Tour playoff record
No.YearTournamentOpponentsResult
12006AIB 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

Other senior wins (1)

Note: Ginn only played in The Open Championship.
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Senior PGA Tour major championships

Wins (1)

Team appearances