Pete - that's how the caddies told us to play the shot at the Dell as well! it takes a leap of faith but damn is it the right play... Very, very cool.
A similar thing happened on the recent NM trip... on #7 at Black Mesa - a very neat short par 4 with a pretty severely sloped green - the architect himself Baxter Spann hit a chip to a back left pin that had me thinking he's insane, or he horribly mis-hit it... the ball went 30 feet past the pin, up a slope behind it, and then you guessed it... trickle, trickle, trickle, kick-in birdie. It was damn near the coolest shot I ever witnessed (but Lou Duran apparently hit an even cooler one on the same hole, that he or Adam can describe - Adam called the shot, Lou hit it)... And it was the right shot to play, because the pin was pretty close to a tier and trying to get it to stop going directly at it would have been damn near impossible. In any case in the afternoon round we had 4 guys then hit the exact same shot, with basically same results. Damn fun to see a bit of Ireland/Scotland recreated in the NM desert!
TH