"With the golf ball stuck hopelessly behind a cypress tree off the 18th fairway, Jim Harbaugh pulled his quarterback aside for a huddle.

There was no strategy for removing the tree. They'd need axes and hoes, not X's and O's.

So Harbaugh simply gave Alex Smith another dose of his Zen-like advice.

"I just told him that there's a lot more air than there is tree," the 49ers coach said.

As always, Smith understood his coach perfectly. He blasted a wedge from 60 feet that sailed over the tree and onto the green for one of the most memorable moments of the Birdies for Charity Shootout on Tuesday at Pebble Beach Golf Links."