Noboru Sugai

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Noboru Sugai (須貝昇, Sugai Noboru^?, born 16 October 1949 in Tokyo) is a Japanese golfer. His father was Japanese and his mother was Russian. He turned professional in 1975 and won three tournaments and over 275 million yen 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.