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Stewart Ginn  |
EXEMPT STATUS: Top 31 on 2002 Champions Tour Money List FULL NAME: Stewart Ginn HEIGHT: 5-11 WEIGHT: 180 BIRTHDATE: June 2, 1949 BIRTHPLACE: Melbourne, Australia RESIDENCE: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia FAMILY: Wife, Meng; Sarah (1973), Stewart, Jr. (1975), Selby (1978), Sophie (1979), Arthur (1991), Sean (1993) SPECIAL INTERESTS: Fishing, restoring antiques and cars TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1971 JOINED TOUR: 1999 |
| Champions Tour Victories |
| (1) 2002 FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship. |
| Other Victories |
| 1973 North Coast Open. Tasmanian Open. Victorian PGA Championship. 1974 Martini International. 1975 Victorian Open. 1977 Malaysian Open. 1979 Mayne Nickles PGA Championship, New Zealand Open, New South Wales PGA Championship. 1980 Tattersalis Tasmanian Open. 1981 South Coast Open. 1986 Malaysian Open, Tasmanian Open. 1991 Malaysian Masters. 1992 Indian Open. 1995 Golf Digest Japan Championship. |
| Current Year Charles Schwab Cup Points and Positions |
| 167 (30) |
| Current Year Champions Tour Money and Positions |
| $280,874 (30) |
| Current Year Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| T4--MasterCard Championship |
| Current Year Champions Tour Best Round |
| 65 at Round 3, Columbus Southern Open, at Round 3, Music City Championship at Gaylord Opryland |
| Current Year Champions Tour Highlights |
| Was T4 in the season-opening MasterCard Championship in Hawaii...Posted back-to-back top-10 finishes at the Columbus Southern Open (T10) and the Music City Championship (T8). |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| 29--1980 World Series of Golf. |
| Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| 1--2002 FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship. |
| Best 2002 Champions Tour Finishes |
| 1--FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, T3--Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, T7--Allianz Championship, T9--Napa Valley Championship presented by Beringer Vineyards |
| 2002 Season Champions Tour |
| Tournaments Entered--28; in money--28; Top 10 finishes--4 |
| 2002 Season Highlights |
| Along with Isao Aoki (Instinet Classic), was the only other international player to win an event on last year's Champions Tour...Broke through for his first victory at the FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship where he was a one-stroke victor over Jim Thorpe, Mike McCullough and Hubert Green. His birdie on the 17th hole proved to be the difference and earned a career-best $375,000 with the win. Also became the 13th player to win his first Champions Tour title in a major championship and the fourth to earn his first Champions Tour victory in this tournament (Chi Chi Rodriguez, Jim Albus and Dave Stockton were the others)...Was among the leaders with nine holes to play at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf and eventually T3 at the King & Bear, at the time, his top outing in almost a year since finishing second to Hale Irwin at the 2001 Bruno's Memorial Classic. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2001: Backed up a fine rookie season with another solid year...Played his best golf early with five of his six top-10 finishes coming in his first 12 starts...Shot three straight sub-70 rounds at the Bruno's Memorial Classic, including a 7-under 65 on Saturday, his low score of the campaign. His 17-under 199 total at Greystone CC still left him in second place four strokes back of Hale Irwin...2000: Came on late in the year to earn a spot among the top-31 money-winners...Earned over 40 percent ($318,140) of his $717,058 in his last six appearances of the year. Was not out of the top-12 in any of those final six events and put together three straight top-10s during the fall west coast swing to earn a trip to the season-ending IR SENIOR TOUR Championship. Vaulted from 33rd to 29th place on the money list with a third-place finish and top paycheck of the year, $100,800, at the final full-field event of the year, the SBC Senior Classic. Performance at Wilshire CC came during a run of 10 straight sub-70 scores, tying a season-best streak by Jim Thorpe earlier in October...1999: Primarily played on the PGA European Seniors Tour and the Japan PGA Tour...Finished 40th on the European Seniors Order of Merit and 47th on the Japan PGA Tour Order of Merit...Best finish in Europe was a T5 at the Senior British Open at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland...Also made 19 appearances on the Japan Golf Tour, made 14 cuts and had four top-10s, highlighted by a T5 at the Super Mario Yomiuri Open...Earned a full exemption on the Champions Tour 2000 by finishing among the top-eight at the National Qualifying Tournament at the Omni Tucson National Resort & Spa...Was among the leaders throughout the four-day event and eventually T2 with Howard Twitty, five strokes back of Mark Hayes with a six-under 282 total...Was easily the medalist at the Q-School regional in San Antonio, winning by 11 strokes at Canyon Springs Golf Club with a 72-hole score of 20-under 268. |
| Personal |
| Was talked out of attempting to play the PGA TOUR by his peers in the early 1970s and regrets his decision...Has used up an estimated 20 passports to play golf throughout the world and has won tournaments on three different tours in his career...Came from a non-golf family, although they lived behind the 12th green at famed Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Began caddieing at Royal Melbourne at age 10 and fell in love with the game after watching the old Canada Cup competition in 1959 from his backyard...Played Australian Rules Football as a youth, but chose to pursue a career in golf on advice from his uncle...Turned professional at age 20 and was an assistant secretary manager at Royal Melbourne for a short time...Married Meng Sept. 16, 2000 during the week of the Kroger Senior Classic...Enjoys spending quality time with his family when not playing...Likes to collect old classic cars and going to antique shops and collecting anything that's different, especially from the world of golf...His favorite meal is Japanese food and says if he could have any job outside of golf for a day it would be a missionary. Favorite golf course is Royal Melbourne and the one course he has always wanted to play is Augusta National...Likes cricket and Australian Rules football and chose a career in golf at age 15 because he felt he could play the game a lot longer than Australian Rules Football...He and his wife own two Rhodesian Ridgebacks, a male and a female (Champ and Beauty)...Never leaves home without photos of his family. |