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Noboru Sugai

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Nationality
  
Japan

Height
  
1.78 m

Professional wins
  
6

U.S. Open
  
DNP

Role
  
Golfer

Japan golf tour
  
3

Masters Tournament
  
DNP

Name
  
Noboru Sugai

European seniors tour
  
1

Turned professional
  
1975

PGA Championship
  
DNP

Weight
  
78 kg


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Born
  
16 October 1949 (age 74) Tokyo, Japan (
1949-10-16
)

Former tours
  
Japan Golf Tour, European Senior Tour

The Open Championship
  
CUT: 1993, 2003

Noboru Sugai Sugai Noboru (須貝 昇, born 16 October 1949) is a Japanese professional golfer.

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Sugai was born in Tokyo, to Japanese father and a Russian mother. He turned professional in 1975 and has won three tournaments and over 275 million ¥ on the Japan Golf Tour.

In 2002, he became the first Japanese to win the Senior British Open in what was the last staging before the tournament became a Champions Tour major. He played on the European Seniors Tour in 2003 and 2004 with little success.

Japan Golf Tour wins

  • 1987 Suntory Open
  • 1990 The Crowns, Golf Digest Tournament
  • Other senior wins

  • 2000 Fujita Kanko Open (Japan)
  • 2001 Castle Hill Open (Japan)
  • Results in major championships

    Note: The only major Sugai played was The Open Championship.
    DNP = Did not play
    CUT = missed the half-way cut

    Team appearances

  • Four Tours World Championship (representing Japan): 1990, 1991
  • References

    Noboru Sugai Wikipedia