GOLF
61 gives Weir Deutsche Bank lead Mike Weir birdied the first four holes and one-putted his final nine greens in the Deutsche Bank Championship to tie the course record with a 10-under-par 61 at TPC Boston at Norton, Mass.
The lowest round of his PGA Tour career gave Weir a three-shot lead over a group of four players that included Vijay Singh, who last week won The Barclays.
Singh previously had the TPC Boston course record to himself, a 61 in the third round two years ago. .
John Merrick, Heath Slocum and Briny Baird joined Singh at 64, while Ben Curtis had a 65. Ernie Els and Jim Furyk were in a large group another stroke back. Phil Mickelson shot a 69.
• Hale Irwin, Chip Beck, Fuzzy Zoeller, Loren Roberts and Andy Bean shot 6-under 66s to share the first-round lead in the WalMart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach (Calif). Fred Funk, Phil Blackmar and Steve Thomas were one shot back. Play at the Pebble Beach course had to be suspended because of fog.
NBA
Knicks get Ewing The New York Knicks acquired Patrick Ewing Jr. from the Houston Rockets in exchange for the draft rights to center Frederic Weis.
Ewing joins the team with which his father, Patrick Ewing, starred for 15 of his 17 NBA seasons.
• San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili, who helped lead Argentina to a bronze medal in the Beijing Olympics, will have surgery next week to repair a ligament injury in his left ankle. It was not known how long he will be sidelined.
