Quickly it became irksome. You could almost hear Kite grinding his teeth as he tried to remain polite. On the eighth hole, a 166-yard par 3 that features one of Sherwood Country Club's smallest greens, The Annoying Amateur stepped up and sliced his tee ball badly again. This time, however, the ball fortuitously hit the large embankment on the right of the tiny green and caromed nicely onto the putting surface and rolled to within four feet of the pin. The advice put Kite between a rock and a hard embankment.
Truth be told, the embankment does naturally feed balls onto the green and toward the flagstick.
Aiming for the right side of the green, if not actually the embankment itself, is the wise ploy. But Kite wasn't about to let the wise guy think he was listening to his advice. Instead, Kite stubbornly opted for the low-percentage shot. With trouble holding sentry of the green on the left, he aimed for trouble. Jean Van de Velde would have admired the strategy.