Ryutaro Nagano

is a Japanese professional golfer. He plays on the Japan Golf Tour where he has five runner-up finishes. The next year, he won the National High School Golf Championship.

In 2007, he enrolled at Tohoku Fukushi University. He represented Ibaraki Prefecture at the 62nd National Athletic Meet golf competition, and won the adult men's section and team.

He won a bronze medal with Yuta Ikeda, Yuki Usami and Daisuke Yasumoto at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok.

Professional career Nagano turned professional at the end of 2008 when he was a sophomore at Tohoku Fukushi University. Expectations were high for him as a rookie, but he struggled for his first three years on the Japan Golf Tour.

Nagano qualified for his first major, the 2021 Open Championship, by finishing runner-up at the Gateway to The Open Mizuno Open. He shot a 70 and 72 at to miss the cut at Royal St George's Golf Club by a single stroke. Later the same year, he tied for 39th at the Zozo Championship in his first regular PGA Tour start, won by Hideki Matsuyama.

He bogeyed the final hole to enter a playoff at the 2021 Panasonic Open Golf Championship with world number one ranked amateur Keita Nakajima, which he lost, but could claim the 20 million yen winner's check.

Nagano earned a spot at the 2023 U.S. Open in the Japan qualifying event at Ibaraki Golf Club alongside Gunn Charoenkul and Ryo Ishikawa. At Los Angeles Country Club, he gained recognition by sitting in 8th place after three rounds, and finishing in a tie for 20th.

Amateur wins 2006 National High School Golf Championship 2007 National Athletic Meet Golf Championship

Playoff record Japan Golf Tour playoff record (0–1)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" = tied