Noboru Sugai

Noboru Sugai 須貝 昇
— Golfer —
Personal information
Born	(1949-10-16) 16 October 1949 Tokyo, Japan
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb; 12.3 st)
Nationality	Japan
Career
Turned professional	1975
Former tour(s)	Japan Golf Tour European Seniors Tour
Professional wins	6
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour	3
European Seniors Tour	1
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT: 1993, 2003
PGA Championship	DNP

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

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

European Seniors Tour

• 2002 Senior British Open

Other senior wins

• 2000 Fujita Kanko Open (Japan)
• 2001 Castle Hill Open (Japan)

Results in major championships

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

External links

• Noboru Sugai at the Japan Golf Tour official site
• Noboru Sugai at the European Seniors Tour official site