PRO GOLFER LOSES HOME IN PRE DAWN FIRE

BY PATRICK HO, EDITOR - GOLF DIGEST MALAYSIA

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He woke up early preparing for the second round of the PGM Tour's Perlis stop on October 6, 2016, a Thursday.

It was a typical routine for pros.

Minutes later, S. Murthy's world came crashing down when his sister called him saying that his house in Banting was on fire.

By 7 a.m., S. Murthy had withdrawn from the tournament and he was on the highway rushing back to Klang, a frustrating five-hour journey.

By the time they arrived, all they were greeted by was a smouldering frame of what used to be their single-storey home.

The fire started at 5.30 a.m. and the fire department informed them that preliminary investigations showed that an electrical short circuit was the likely cause.

Nothing was left. No clothes, no furniture.

"Everything is gone," he told Golf Digest Malaysia. "Luckily my parents were staying at my sister's house that day," said Murthy who turned pro in 1996. "I cannot imagine what would have happened if they were alone in the house."

To make matters worse, the house that Murthy had worked so hard to buy in 1999 was not insured.

The loss is estimated at approximately RM300,000.

Murthy and his wife are childless and are temporarily staying at his sister's house.

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