Today I’ll be spending most of the day traveling (again) – yes it’s the third straight week in the air, but I can’t complain when so many of my co-workers have it far worse than I do – so this will be a short post. There’s a lot of U.S. Open pools getting going this week for the hoedown about to take place at beautiful Oakmont, and I love getting in office pools. This particular one has a set of rules so complicated that you just toss your players in and hope you get an e-mail on Monday with the subject line, “Congratulations you lucky ba$tard, you won! It goes like this:

“Pick 6 golfers (no Tiger Woods); Final tournament scores for your 4 lowest golfers will be summed to determine your score. Lowest total score wins. If all of your golfers do not make the weekend cut (ie, 3 make it, 3 get cut), your fourth golfer becomes the last place finisher from the Final Round. In the event of a tie, we will go the 5th and 6th (if necessary) golfers (assuming they make the cut) to determine a winner.”

So who does The Great White Shank love this week?

* Geoff Ogilvy
* Vijay Singh
* Trevor Immelmann
* Sergio Garcia (even though I know he’ll break my heart and I’ll be ready to slay him next Monday)
* Aaron Baddeley
* Padraig Harrington

Don’t bet the farm on these, but I guarantee others will do worse.

…and no, Michelle “Quitter” Wie is NOT in the field.

…neither is Paris Hilton.