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Home > Golf > Champions Tour Players > Stewart Ginn
Stewart Ginn
Stewart Ginn was born on the 2nd of June 1949 in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Professional Golfer who grew up behind the twelfth green of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club and started caddying at the age of ten.
Stewart’s lone Champions Tour victory came in the 2002 Ford Senior Players Championship earning him a career-best 375,000 US dollars and his current year, Champions Tour money and position are 15,335 US dollars and 125, respectively, best Champions Tour finish is a Tied 27th at the Senior British Open Championship and had a Champions Tour best round of 68 at Round 2, in the Senior British Open Championship. His best PGA Tour finish is a 29th at the 1980 World Series of Golf. In the 2005 Champions Tour he entered 2 tournaments and had a money-wise ranking of 2.
He was a medalist at the European Seniors Tour Qualifying Tournament and will be fully exempt on that circuit in 2006. He teamed with Bob Charles to win the Raphael Division at the 2004 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf. His best overall year on Champions Tour came in 2002 when he finished 18th on the money list, with 950,055 US dollars. He was a mainstay on the PGA European Seniors, Australasian and the Japan PGA Tours for 20 years prior to joining the Champions Tour.
He earned a full exemption on the 2000 Champions Tour by finishing Tied 2nd at the National Qualifying Tournament at the Omni Tucson National Resort and Spa. He has 16 victories around the world as a professional on three different Tours in his career, including 3 Tasmanian Opens. In 1970, he was a semifinalist in the Australian Amateur and was the Victorian Junior champion. He was talked out of attempting to play the PGA Tour by his peers in the early 1970s and has regretted his decision.
He and fell in love with the game after watching the old Canada Cup competition in 1959 from his backyard and has used up an estimated 20 passports to play golf throughout the world. He played Australian Rules football as a youth, but chose to pursue a career in golf on advice from his uncle and turned professional at the age of 20. He was an assistant secretary manager at the Royal Melbourne for a short time.
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