Nick Price, the most successful player in CVS tournament history, will return for a 10th time and be joined by three first-timers, Bo Van Pelt, Michael Thompson and Russell Henley. The 20-player field, which also will include Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler, Steve Stricker and Annika Sorenstam, will compete in the $1.55 million event June 23-25 at Rhode Island Country Club.

Price is in the Hall of Fame because he won 18 times on the PGA Tour, 24 times internationally and four times in the Champions Tour. The classy South African has become a familiar figure at RICC as he won the event in 2009 with David Toms as his partner, in 2006 paired with Tim Clark and in 2001 with Mark Calcavecchia.

Price, who has missed much playing time recently because of an elbow injury, has been named captain the international squad for the 2013 Presidents Cup matches.

Thompson, a 28-year-old University of Alabama product, earned his first PGA TOUR win at The Honda Classic. He had a breakout year in 2012 with three top-10 finishes including a tie for second at the U.S. Open.

Henley, 24, became the first rookie to win in his first official PGA TOUR start when he ran away from the field at the 2013 Sony Open in Hawaii. He has continued to post impressive play, placing sixth at the RBC Heritage this year. He won the Haskins Award as the top player in college golf while excelling for Georgia in 2010.

Van Pelt has been a steady force on TOUR and peaked last last when he finished a career-best 22nd in the FedEx Cup standings. For the past three years Van Pelt has ranked inside the top-30 on tour. His father, Bob, was the fifth round draft choice of the Philadelphia Eagles in 1967.

Tournament co-hosts Brad Faxon and Billy Andrade will announce the two-player teams at a later date.

Noah Iden, 13, of North Kingstown came up with the idea. Each player will pay $25 to participate. Noah and his friends, Robert Green and Griffin O'Farrell, designed a lacrosse Pinnie for each entrant and will give each player a Boston Strong helmet decal.

Baked goods and refreshments will be available and there will be a raffle. All proceeds and additional donations will go to the One Boston Fund.

Lax action will occur from 10 a.m. to noon at Wilson Park.

The Boston Athletic Association says people who passed the halfway checkpoint but not the finish line will get a code they can use to sign up in August. Regular registration for the 2014 Boston Marathon is scheduled to start in September.

The invitation applies to more than 5,000 people who were stopped on the course when the race was shut down at 2:50 p.m.

No decision has been made on whether the field will expand to include an expected influx of runners who say they want to run next year to support the race and the city.

Louis Oosthuizen, a South African who won the 2010 British Open, has agreed to take part in the event June 23-25, tournament organizers announced. Also joining the field are former champion CVS champions Bill Haas and Jeff Sluman and the popular Fuzzy Zoeller, who will be making his first appearance at RICC.

Oosthuizen had five top 10 finishes on the PGA Tour last year, including losing The Masters in a playoff with Bubba Watson. He also was the runner-up in the Deutsche Bank Classic at the TPC of Boston in Norton, Mass., and finished seventh in the FedEx Cup standings. He currently is seventh in the World Golf Rankings.

Haas won the CVS event in 2004 with his father, Jay, as his partner. His father won a second time, with LPGA star Morgan Pressel as his partner last year and will be defending that title next month. The younger Haas was the 2011 FedEx Cup champion and has won four times on tour. He currently is the 28th ranked player in the world.

Zoeller, now 62, plays limited schedule on the Champions Tour. A 12-time champion on rhe PGA and Champions tours, he long has been one of the most popular players on tour because of his wit and willingness to entertain. He runs the Wolf Challenge in his native Indiana to raise money for area charities there. That event has raised nearly $2 million for charity.

Sluman has been a tournament regular. He won the CVS Classic in both 1999 and 2003. Just last month, he and tournament co-host Brad Faxon combined to win the Liberty Mutual Insurance Legends of Golf tournament.

Others who will take part in the 15th annual CVS event, hosted by Billy Andrade and Faxon, include Watson, Rickie Fowler and Steve Stricker from the PGA Tour and Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam and teenage star Lexi Thompson from the LPGA Tour.

Leopold and Eaton both finished with 142 total over the 36 holes in the event held at Carnegie Abbey and Wanumetonomy. Eaton had rounds of 68-74 and Leopold 70-72.

The title was the fourth in the last five years for Leopold in the event.

He caught Eaton by going 2-under-par over the final nine holes. Eaton is a former U.S. Mid Amateur champion (2004), back when he lived in New Hampshire. He now lives in Attleboro and plays out of Pawtucket.

Leopold also won the Burke in 2009, '11 and last year.

Five-time champion Charlie Blanchard took third at 146. Jon Costa had the low round of the second day, a 68, and tied for fourth with three-time State Amateur champion Brad Valois, at 147.

Kirby tied for medalist honors with amateur John Gilmartin of Andover, Mass., who had a 68 that included going 6-under through his first 15 holes. Colin Amaral of Port St. Lucie, Fla., took the other spot with a 69 that included birdies on each of his last two holes.

Earlier, Jeffrey Dantas of Seekonk advanced in local trials in western Massachusetts and Johnson & Wales grad Mike Welch earned a spot in local qualifying in Florida.

The 113rd Open will be played next month at the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa. The first major event of the RIGA season begins tomorrow when the two-day Burke Memorial is held at Carnegie Abbey and Wanumetonomy.

Christopher Zablocki, 24, of Essex, Conn., won the men's race in 2 hours, 28 minutes and 32 seconds. Patrick Moulton, 31, finished 63 seconds behind him in 2:29:35.

Katie Moulton, 30, running her first marathon, was the first female to finish. Her time was 2:53:47.

"I'm happy with my finish, but I'm happier for her," Patrick said of Katie. They met while running track at Providence College and were married last September.

Mizael Carrera, 21, of Addison, Ill., won the men's half-marahon in 1:09:42. Eric Lonergan of North Kingstown, the 2012 winner, ran second in 1:12:55.

Amanda Kourtz, 29, of Raynham, Mass., a professional triathlete, won the women's half in 1:24:35.

Conditions were overcast, wet and humid, but it did not rain during race.

Annie Zhu edged Sogar, who won the NCAA championship in the same event in March, by a hundredth of a second. Zhu, a freshman at the University of Georgia, completed the final 50 meters in 38.35 en route to a 2:27.16 finish. Sogar, a senior at the University of Texas and graduate of the Prout School, led by nearly a second after 150 meters and finished at 2:27.17.

Another Rhode Islander, Brooke Zeiger of Cumberland, was 10th in the event at 2:37.12.

Beisel, who qualified first in the preliminaries with a time of 4:46.32, won the event in a time of 4:41.30, almost three seconds better than runner-up Amber McDermott.

Beisel also finished eighth in the 200 freestyle in a time of 2:04.67. Allison Schmitt won the event in 1:58.76.

Former Prout School standout Laura Sogar, who is a senior at the University of Texas, also competed in Charlotte and finished third in the 100-meter breastroke in a time of 1:07.57. Jessica Hardy won the event in 1:07.03. In the 50-meter breaststroke, Sogar came in fourth with a time of 31.56. Hardy also won that event, finishing with a time of 30.71.

This will be the second consecutive tournament appearance for the Australian star, who advanced to last year's final before losing to John Isner.

Isner, the two-time defending champion, has also committed to return in 2013. Other early commitments include Sam Querrey, Ryan Harrison and Jack Sock.

They'd like you to think there are five major championships in golf.

But the reality is there are only three majors.

That's right, three.

Not four.

Or, if you count the Players Championship, five.

But golfers know that the only true majors are the Big Three -- The Masters, the U.S, Open, and the British Open.

The order in which they're ranked is a subject for endless, and nonreconcilable, debate.

But there is no debating that the so-called fourth major, the PGA Championship, doesn't rank in quite the same category.

I consider the PGA to be a mid-major, along with the Players Championship, which will be contested this weekend in Ponte Vedra, Fla., over the Pete Dye-designed, Stadium course at TPC Sawgrass, which is best known for the island green on the par-3, 17th hole.

The Players is, without question, one of the top tournaments of the year, annually attracting a stellar field.

It's not the Quad Cities Open.

But it's not the U.S. Open, or the British Open, or the Masters, either.

The Bruins blow away the Leafs in the opening game of their first-round Stanley Cup series at TD Garden.

And the Red Sox pound five homers to back yet another dominating pitching performance by the presently peerless Clay Buchholz in a 10-1 rout of the Blue Jays in Toronto.

Oh, what a night!

Clicker in hand, a New England Sports Fan could change channels with a smiling face Wednesday night, gleefully following the action in New York, Toronto, and Boston as the hometown teams put a whuppin' on the opposition.

All three games were fun to watch, but none more so than the surprising Celtics, written off (including by Yours Truly) even after winning Game Four on Sunday afternoon in Boston, when they narrowly averted a sweep by winning in overtime after blowing a 19-point halftime lead.

Among the reasons the Knicks were supposed to put the Celts away in Game Five in New York was the return of J.R. Smith, their second-leading scorer, who was suspended for Game Four after committing a flagrant foul in Game Three.

As it turned out, the Knicks would have been better off without him, as he missed his first 10 shots and finished with just 14 points while going 3-for-14.

Almost as bad -- for the second straight game -- was Carmelo Anthony, who looks more and more like a ball hog and less and less like a star after following up his woeful, 10-for-36 shooting performance in Game Four with an 8-for-24 dud on his home floor.

Anthony hasn't made a 3-point shot in the last two games, going 0-for-12 from beyond the arc.

So now the Knicks must return to Boston for Game Six, with the knowledge hanging heavily over them that no NBA team ever has lost a series after winning the first three games.

As for the Bruins, while one game (or even three, as the Knicks now can attest) does not a series make, you've got to like their chances against Toronto, considering how they dominated play in a 4-1 win that, as the old saying goes, wasn't as close as even that scored indicated.

Meanwhile the Red (Hot) Sox continued to pound Blue Jays' pitching, as Mike Napoli -- twice! -- Daniel Nava, the amazing Mike Carp, and Stephen Drew -- yes, Stephen Drew -- all went deep.

Napoli's second homer might have carried all the way from Ontario to Quebec had it not hit just below the hotel in center field in the Rogers Centre.

He now has six dingers on the season and leads all of MLB with 31 RBI.

Carp is hitting .480, but even that gaudy number isn't as good as Big Papi's .487.

Davis Ortiz is 19-for-39 going into Thursday night's game against the Jays.

Nava is showing surprising power, with five homers in 23 games.

Going into this season, he'd hit just seven homers in 148 games for Boston, although one of those was his famous, first at-bat, first-pitch, grand slam in 2010.

His professional career high is 10, in 441 at-bats for Triple-A Pawtucket in 2011.

But the most dazzling numbers of all belong to Buchholz, who's now 6-0, with a microscopic ERA of 1.01.

He's given up a mere 5 runs in 44.2 innings while allowing just 27 hits (only 1 homer). He has struck out 47 while walking only 16.

It's too bad that the Bruins don't play again 'til Saturday.

With the Celts and Sox both in action again Friday night, it could have been another terrific trifecta if only the B's were playing, too.

It's going to be a busy night for the local pro sports teams, with the Celtics, Bruins and Red Sox all playing at 7. Here's a guide to how to watch each game:

Celtics at Knicks. You'll have two options for watching Game Five of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals, with the Celtics fighting for their season. The local broadcast is on Comcast Sports New England, with the national broadcast on TNT.

Maple Leafs at Bruins. Game One of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series will be shown on NESN, with the national broadcast on CNBC. You can listen to the game at 98.5-FM (WBZ).

Red Sox at Blue Jays The Sox have been bumped from their usual home -- NESN -- to NESN Plus. In Rhode Island, that's Cox Channel 5 (HD 1005), Full Channel 80 or Verizon FiOS Channel 78 (HD 578). The game will also be on 103.7 FM (WEEI).