Hideyo Sugimoto
Personal information
Born (1938-02-16) 16 February 1938 (age 86)
Tagata District, Shizuoka, Japan
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight90 kg (200 lb; 14 st)
Sporting nationality Japan
Career
Turned professional1959
Former tour(s)Japan Golf Tour
PGA Tour
Asia Golf Circuit
Professional wins18
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour2
Asian Tour3 (Asia Golf Circuit)
Other16
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentT35: 1968
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenCUT: 1968
The Open ChampionshipDNP

Hideyo Sugimoto (born 16 February 1938) is a Japanese professional golfer.

Early life

Sugimoto was born in the Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan in 1938. He started to play golf at the age of 17.[1]

Professional career

Sugimoto turned professional in 1959.[2] In the mid-1960s, he had much success. One of his first successes was at the 1963 Yomiuri International, the final tournament of the year on the Asia Golf Circuit, where he finished runner-up to American Doug Sanders.[3] Later in the year, in August, he recorded another runner-up performance against an international field, finishing solo second to Kel Nagle at the Lake Karrinyup Bowl in Perth, Australia.[4] In 1965, he won the Japan Open Golf Championship, the country's national open.

As of March 1968, Sugimoto was under a one year suspension by the Japanese PGA.[5] He attempted to make it onto the PGA Tour at Spring 1968 PGA Tour Qualifying School.[6] He was successful. Sugimoto played in fourteen events during the year, including the Masters and U.S. Open. He made the cut in nine events, including the Masters.[7]

In 1969, Sugimoto returned to Japan and had great success, winning six times in his home country and the Taiwan Open. During this era, Australian legend Peter Thomson considered Sugimoto and Kenji Hosoishi to be the best golfers in Japan.[5]

During this the early 1970s, he had success with fellow Japanese professional Takashi Murakami, winning three events with him. Sugimoto's first win on the Japan Golf Tour, the 1973 All Nippon Doubles, was with Murakami. Sugimoto played on tour through the decade. One of his final top performances was at the 1978 Hiroshima Open where he finished second to Masashi Ozaki in a playoff.[8]

Professional wins (18)

PGA of Japan Tour wins (2)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 29 Jul 1973 All Japan Doubles
(with Japan Takashi Murakami) 		−26 (100-101-61=262)
2 19 Aug 1973 Suntory Open −14 (66-69-70-65=270) 1 stroke Japan Masashi Ozaki

PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (0–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 1978 Hiroshima Open Japan Masashi Ozaki Lost to par on second extra hole

Asia Golf Circuit wins (3)

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner-up
1 6 Apr 1969 Taiwan Open −4 (71-74-74-71=284) Playoff Taiwan Hsu Chi-san
2 27 Feb 1972 Philippine Open −2 (72-72-71-71=286) 2 strokes Taiwan Hsieh Yung-yo
3 18 Mar 1973 Malaysian Open −11 (68-69-68-72=277) 2 strokes Australia Graham Marsh

Asia Golf Circuit playoff record (1–1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent Result
1 1967 Singapore Open Philippines Ben Arda Lost to par on second extra hole
2 1969 Taiwan Open Taiwan Hsu Chi-san Won with par on first extra hole

Japanese circuit wins (13)

Results in major championships

Tournament 1967 1968
Masters Tournament CUT[9] T35[10]
U.S. Open CUT[11]

Note: Sugimoto never played in The Open Championship or the PGA Championship.

  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Team appearances

See also

References

  1. ^ "Hideyo Sugimoto – Player Profile". JGTO. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  2. ^ Alliss, Peter (1983). The Who's Who of Golf. Orbis Publishing. p. 362. ISBN 0-85613-520-8.
  3. ^ "Sanders's Tokio win". The Glasgow Herald. 26 March 1963. p. 6.
  4. ^ "Big W.A. golf to Kel Nagle". The Age. 26 August 1963. p. 23.
  5. ^ a b Thomson, Peter (11 March 1968). "Top golfer a roly-poly". The Age. p. 19 – via Google News Archive.
  6. ^ Gould, David (1999). Q-School Confidential: Inside Golf's Cruelest Tournament. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 242–243. ISBN 978-0312203559.
  7. ^ "Hideyo Sugimoto – Profile". PGA Tour. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  8. ^ "Hideyo Sugimoto – Tour Career Record". JGTO. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  9. ^ "Bert Has 67-73; Nicklaus Misses Cutoff With 151". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Associated Press. 8 April 1967. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  10. ^ "Hideyo Sugimoto". Golf Major Championships. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  11. ^ "Scoring - U.S. Open History – 1968". U.S. Open.

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