Are you on Twitter? If not, you know about it, right? Instant blast messages from your computer or phone to the entire planet. And that kind of stuff can get you in a lot of trouble in a hurry. (Ever wondered what would happen if you Tweeted fake distress messages from a plane? Uh … no, me neither. Of course not.)

Anyway. Christina Kim is over in France for the Evian Masters, and having a fine old time, judging from her always-interesting Twitter feed. But things took a turn for the controversial Friday morning when she dropped this little bombshell:

I was just told someone very prominent in the future of the LPGA-a young major winner, said to one of our rules officials "go f-word a tree" that is just inappropriate,rude,unprofessional,and just bc she dropped off the leaderboard doesn’t mean she should say that. I spit on her

Who was it? Let the speculation begin! Kim continued:

I think players should be barred from the tour for speaking to an official in that manner. That and a big old smack from me, across her face

And from there, matters started to spin. Accusations and assumptions flew, and reputations started getting dirtier than Gulf beaches. So Kim followed up with some damage control:

Just spoke with the rules official, and they said that was not exactly what was said. So let us stop assuming. But regardless, the officials have the most thankless job on tour, we would be in a world of chaos without them!

and

Ok folks, stop naming names. Its NOT PC, bc I would have said RECENT major winner. And "young" is all relative. Young might mean 37yrs old

By "PC," obviously she means Paula Creamer. So, yeah, there are plenty of possibilities as to the identity of the mysterious official-curser. Any ideas? Purely for entertainment purposes, of course. 

His name is Brent Delahoussaye. There is no chance that rings a bell in your mind.

He has no prior success on the PGA Tour. No wins on the Nationwide Tour. No Wikipedia page. No nothing. Searching Getty Images for a picture of the first round leader of the Canadian Open had me pulling the photo to your right from April, the last time he was updated on the site.

He has 22 FedEx Cup points (the leader, Ernie Els, has 1,751), and has made exactly three cuts in his first full season on the PGA Tour.

But thus the beauty of golf. The Baltimore Orioles aren’t making the playoffs this year in baseball, but the bottom dwellers in golf just need a good week to jump up to the top of the standings.

It was a 62 for Delahoussaye, a Clemson product that was even questioned in the interview room, and admitted after the moderator seemed confused on his play today, "No. It’s understandable. I’ve played bad all year, to be honest."

This is a guy that had broke 69 a total of two times all season before Thursday, but got the ball rolling and is in the lead at 8-under. Obviously we all know where first round leaders can end up, and for a guy with such little experience in this position it is only fitting that he end up middle of the pack after this week, but it isn’t like this is his first time finding himself in an unfamiliar position.

In his first ever Hooters Tour event, Delahoussaye won the darn thing, and claims that to be his biggest achievement as a professional. Three more days like this, and that Hooters hardware will have to be moved down a notch in the trophy case.

Golf may be you vs. the course, but the end result is you vs. everyone else. That is what we do here with our Devil Ball Power Rankings, a glimpse at who is currently hot on tour, that will run every three weeks during the PGA Tour season. These are the top-10 golfers currently playing, with nothing factoring in except the present golfing world. 

1.) Justin Rose: Sure, he missed the cut at St. Andrews when everyone had him pegged as their Open hopeful, but you can’t take away his two wins and a tie for ninth in his three previous events before the British. Rose has always been the type of player that could get hot quickly, and his play of late has him at the top of our list.

2.) Louis Oosthuizen: With the idea of "current rankings" in mind, Oosthuizen deserves to be as high as possible. His dominate win at St. Andrews was something reserved for greats like Tiger Woods and Nick Faldo, yet he continues to play well just four days after he hoisted the Claret Jug over his head.

3.) Lee Westwood: He’s only played in 10 events on the PGA Tour this year, but the resume is pretty incredible. A win at the St. Judes, a second-place finish at both the Masters and British, and a tie for fourth at The Players.

4.) Ernie Els: He missed the cut at the British after a nasty 79 in the windy conditions on Friday, but he still has two wins this season and a third-place finish at the U.S. Open. Els, who topped the rankings after Pebble Beach, is still leading the FedEx Cup, and has the game to win one or two more events before the season wraps.

5.) Steve Stricker: He claimed his second win of the season at the John Deere Classic two weeks ago as the highest-ranked player in the field, and although he didn’t play great at the British, he is still in line to compete for the FedEx title at end of the season. 

6.) Rory McIlroy: After that Thursday 63, it seemed like the 21-year-old might join his fellow Northern Irishman as a major champion, but the windy conditions on Friday foiled any chance of him taking the Open title. Nonetheless, he still finished third after he righted the ship on Saturday and Sunday, making it his second top 10 on the PGA Tour since winning at Quail Hollow.

7.) Graeme McDowell: You can’t make a list here without including the U.S. Open champion, who also finished in the top 25 at the British. 

8.) Phil Mickelson: He’s the Masters champion, and not much else, but a "mediocre" year for Mickelson is better than most. Lefty has two top 5s in his last three starts.

9.) Dustin Johnson: It might seem strange to include the guy that blew up at the U.S. Open on this list, but his consistency has been sneaky for a young guy. Johnson never let the 82 on Sunday at Pebble affect him, and his top 20 at the British kept him in the top 10 of the FedEx Cup points. 

10.) J.B. Holmes: Talk about a solid year that nobody is talking about. Holmes has nine top-25 finishes in just 16 starts, and has only missed one cut. His tie for 14th at the British Open was his best finish at a major, and showed that he can play consistent golf on the big stage.

You can never blame guys for their major championship hangover. After a big win, you have television appearances you never thought you’d see, and people wanting to pull you from every direction. Most of the time the winner takes a week or two off just to handle all the media requests.

That wasn’t the case for newly minted Open champion Louis Oosthuizen. The South African that blew away the field at St. Andrews decided he’d keep the train a-rollin’ this week and committed to the Nordea Scandinavian Masters. During the pro-am, the fatigue looked imminent for Oosthuizen, who failed to break par during the Wednesday practice round.

Thursday was a different story, and Oosthuizen posted a 5-under 67 to share the lead with Richard Green and Dustin Johnson at the European Tour event.

"I had a good sleep, but I woke up tired again and the win has definitely drained me," said Oosthuizen. "But the crowds were unbelievable, cheering me onto every green and every tee.

"I wanted to play nicely. The last thing I wanted was to put on a bad show and it was important not to think too much about next week."

The question after unknown names win major championships is how they will respond in the long run, but to come out like this the week after it happened shows the level of game that Oosthuizen really carries.

Our own Jay Busbee wrote on Monday, "He’s had his troubles in majors before. But success breeds success, and I’d be very surprised if we don’t see [Oosthuizen] back on the top of the leaderboard again, and very soon." It appears that the "very soon" part of that was just four days.

To keep up this type of play over the next 54 holes will be extremely tough, but it is a nice little encore for Oosthuizen to play so well in his first event since raising the Claret Jug.

Jerry Pate knows golf. He’s got eight wins on the PGA Tour, including the 1976 U.S. Open, and he’s an accomplished course designer. Throughout the season, he’ll be stopping by Devil Ball to offer an inside-the-ropes look at the week’s upcoming course. Today: St. George’s Golf & Country Club in Toronto.

The Canadian Open returns to St. George’s for the first time since 1968. The course originally opened in 1929 as Royal York Golf Club. The course was designed by the great Canadian architect Stanley Thompson and is recognized as one of his greatest works.

The course is routed masterfully through and around the many valleys, ridges, and hillocks on the site. Thompson utilized the terrain to deceive players — to hide the fairway beyond or to toy with the player’s depth perception on approaches.

The hills are beautifully decorated with the sand-flashed Thompson bunkers. One such example of this is the par-4 seventh hole. The uphill hole plays left to right off the tee, then back to the left slightly to a green set on top of a ridge, hidden from the fairway below. A cross-bunker sits just below the ridge yet well short of the green. The flagstick beyond appears closer to the players. With the combination of the uphill approach and the visual deception, the tendency is to come up short.

Another great example of Thompson’s use of the rolling terrain is the long par-5 15th hole. The fairway rolls back and forth between the ridges on its way to the green. The second shot is key on the hole as an aggressive one will need to be played blindly over a bunker set in a knob. The correct line and distance is required to find the fairway as it bends beyond that knob. A poor drive in a fairway bunker or the deep rough will not allow this aggressive second shot and a lay-up must be played well out to the right of the bunker and knob. From there, a player is left with a long, difficult off-angle approach to the green.

The players will enjoy St. George’s and its classic design and I am sure Stanley Thompson is proud that his national championship has returned to St. George. He will receive great admiration this week for his work there and hopefully more light will be shed on his other wonderful works.

Jerry Pate has been designing golf courses for more than 30 years. His portfolio of work includes Old Waverly Golf Club in Mississippi, site of the 1999 United States Women’s Open; Trump National Golf Club Colts Neck (formerly known as Shadow Isle) in New Jersey; Kiva Dunes on the Alabama Gulf Coast; and Rancho La Quinta Country Club in California. See more of his work at www.jerrypategolfdesign.com.