In Brief : Golfer Ousted From Australian Tour

Canadian golf officials confirmed today that a Canadian has been kicked off the Australian golf tour and told to leave that country after he was found cheating in a tournament last week. Vancouver veteran Kelly Murray is reported to have entered a 4 instead of a 5 on his card during the Victoria PGA tournament--a satellite event.

The report, in a Melbourne paper last week, said Australian tour organizers barred Murray from the remainder of the tournament, the rest of the tour and ordered his ouster from the country.

A Canadian Broadcast Corp. radio report today said Murray was caught by the group following his in the tournament, not by his golf partners.

David Colling, executive director of the Canadian PGA, said he had no information on the incident other than indirectly but had heard that Murray was apparently penalized “for failing to notify his group he was taking a drop in the rough.”

Canadian officials said they are still trying to locate Murray, whom Colling believed to be still in Australia despite unsubstantiated reports that the player was in Hawaii.