There are impressive aces that make you jump out of your seat .... and then there's the ace Mark Wiebe managed to pull off on on Saturday at the Greater Hickory Classic.

If you think it's absurd to compare aces -- after all, we are talking about the best shot in golf -- you may have a different opinion after watching this shot. Wiebe, who started his round birdie-birdie, hit his tee shot on the par-3 third short of the green and then watched as it released down the hill and into the cup for what has to be the craziest hole-in-one of the year.

I dare you to find a better hole-in-one from this season, friends. If you think you have one, feel free to send it my way via Twitter (@jonathanrwall) or email (jonathanrwall@yahoo.com).

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Let's be honest, we're all incredibly busy. Nobody has time to sit down and watch four rounds of golf coverage -- unless, of course, you watch TV for a living, and if that's the case, please email us your number. So in an effort to condense the tournament coverage for you into a few quick hits, here are five things we learned from the Frys.com Open.

Jonas Blixt has a future on the PGA Tour — It's impossible to predict how a golfer will play following their first win on the PGA Tour, but I'd be willing to bet this won't be the last time we hear from Jonas Blixt. The 28-year-old from Sweden, who actually had aspirations of playing hockey professionally growing up, captured the most important win of his career to-date on Sunday at the Frys.com Open thanks to another stellar putting performance. He finished the week first in the field in strokes gained putting (2.468) and putts per round (26.3).

I know what you're probably saying: Anyone can get hot for four days and win on the PGA Tour. That may be true, but look at the body of work Blixt put together this year. He finished the season with 5 top-10 finishes — two of them happened to be third-place finishes — in just 19 starts. That means he finished inside the top-10 more than 25 percent of the time.

Impressive, right? Not only that, he's currently first on tour in strokes gained putting and eagles (per hole) ... and putting from 5-10 feet. That last stat is critical if you want to win on tour.

Blixt could come back to earth next year and the putter could go ice-cold, but given the direction his game is currently trending, there's a good chance he's going to use the win as a springboard for bigger and better things.

Frys.com Open produces another watered-down field — Frys.com Open officials can't wait for next season to get here. One year after Tiger Woods bolstered the quality of the field, the event didn't have a single player from the OWGR top 20. Not only that, only two from the top 50 showed up to CordeValle -- a stat that would lead you to believe something needs to change.

Well change is coming, after the tour decided to make the Frys.com the kick off tournament for the 2013-14 season. Tournament president Butler told the San Francisco Chronicle that Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and the rest of the tour's big guns will play the event at least once over the next three years.

Every year it seems like the PGA Tour's Fall Series produces at least one up-and-coming star to keep an eye going into next season. Bud Cauley was the name to watch coming into 2012, after the 22-year-old put together a late-season charge during the Fall Series to secure full-time status, as a non-member, on tour in just eight starts.

This year? Well it looks like the name to watch heading into 2013 is Jonas Blixt, who captured the Frys.com Open on Sunday with a 3-under 68 that included birdies on two of his final four holes. At 28, Blixt seems to be coming into his own in his first season on the PGA Tour.

A relative unknown at the start of the year, he burst onto the scene with a T-3 at the HP Byron Nelson Championship after he nearly made it into a playoff with Dicky Pride and eventual winner Jason Dufner. Blixt then kept it going, making it to the second event of the FedEx Cup playoffs in Boston before bowing out.

His third-place last week at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Open led

CordeValle Golf Club, site of this week's Frys.com Open. — Getty Images

It's tournament time! The PGA Tour heads west to picturesque CordeValle Golf Club for the Frys.com Open, the second event of the Fall Series. Here's a tournament primer to get you prepared for the week.

The course: The Robert Trent Jones Jr. designed CordeValle Golf Club is another Fall Series course where birdies will be needed to stay in contention. At 7,368 yards, the par par 71 layout has played, on average, about half a stroke under par over the last two years and should once again produce a winning score close to last year's 17-under mark set by winner Bryce Molder.

Like last week's event at TPC Summerlin, CordeValle puts a premium on putting and hitting fairways and greens. You can't bomb it around the course and expect to contend. With some of the biggest greens on tour, hitting the putting surface shouldn't be much of an issue.

However, just hitting the green won't cut it; players will need to ensure they're on the right level/side of the putting surface or be prepared for some tricky putts.

CordeValle also requires you to play target golf off the tee. As opposed to some course where you can grip and rip it with the driver, the Santa Clara Valley layout has some tricky landing areas that may force some of the longer hitters to lay back with a 3-wood.

If you're looking for a hole to watch this week, keep an eye on the 605-yard, par-5 12th. The beefy hole was ranked as the 12th-most difficult par-5 on the PGA Tour last season.

With a crossing stream that runs the entire length of the hole, anything right off the tee could be in trouble. You'll also need to be mindful of the stream on your approach, as well as a couple greenside bunkers that will gobble up approach shots that bail-out to the right.

The schedule: The tournament runs Thursday-Sunday. All four rounds will be broadcast on the Golf Channel from 1 to 7 p.m. ET.

The field: Fall Finish fields are usually hit-or-miss, but over the years, the Frys.com Open has somehow managed to entice some marquee names -- Tiger Woods teed it up last season -- to the California Wine Country. Ben Curtis and Ernie Els are the only 2012 PGA Tour winners in the field. Other notables include European Ryder Cupper Nicolas Colsaerts, John Daly, Davis Love III, Gary Woodland, Patrick Cantlay and Vijay Singh.

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So in an attempt to inject a bit more life and interest into tournaments, and because we're all inveterate gamblers who are one bad card from being out on the streets, Jay Busbee and I are playing a golf version of a football suicide pool: We each pick one golfer per tournament and see how they do against each other, straight up. Victory over the other guy gets one point, victory in the tournament gets three points, and a tie lands you half a point. (Double for the majors.) We turn our attention to the Frys.com Open.

Wall: There's something about the end of the season that brings out the best in Bud Cauley. Needing a strong Fall Finish last year to secure his card and bypass Q-School, he picked up a third-place finish at the Frys.com and a T-15 at the McGladrey Classic to secure full-time status as a non-member. I think his past success at the Frys, coupled with a nice run in late July that included four top 10 finishes in five events, makes him a great picks this week.

Busbee: Jonas Blixt! I'd pick him for the name alone, even if he wasn't currently riding a hot streak. He held the lead for a good chunk last week at the Shriners, and he's playing well enough of late to warrant taking a flyer on him at an otherwise, uh, quiet field. He's got four top-10 finishes in his first 18 events on Tour, so he's starting out solid. Plus, he's a Florida State guy, which -- along with the fact that his name would fit equally well on a European philosopher or a death-metal guitarist -- makes him all right in our book.

Last week: We dropped the ball at JT's Shriners Open. Chalk it up to a post-Ryder Cup hangover but Busbee and I forgot to make a pick for the first Fall Series event in Vegas. Our bad! Going back to the Tour Championship, Phil Mickelson (Busbee's pick) edged out Jason Dufner (Wall's pick) to even the Showdown battle with only three events to play.

Current score: Wall - 14.0, Busbee - 14.0.

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Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are scheduled to go head-to-head at the Turkish Airlines World Golf Final on Wednesday, but after Tuesday morning's result, their eagerly-anticipated match could be nothing more than a chance to see the top two golfers in the world in the same group, after both lost their opening matches.

McIlroy, who admitted before his round that he hadn't touched a club since the Ryder Cup, arrived at Antalya Golf Club looking, well, like a guy who hadn't touched a golf club since the Ryder Cup.

Facing Matt Kuchar in the first round, McIlroy went a couple shots down early before imploding over the last four holes of the match, going triple-bogey, double-bogey, double-bogey starting on the 15th to lose by six shots.

"If it was a different format and a different tournament it might not have got as out of control as it did, but that's just the way it is," McIlroy said. "But it's fine. I know what I need to do tomorrow. I need to go out and win both of my matches and see if

Bubba Watson is no stranger to the Tonight Show. Back in July, the Masters champ went on the late night talk show and touched on a number of subjects -- from how he got the name "Bubba," to when he started playing golf, the adoption of his son, and the "Golf Boys."

You know, typical late night television questions. Well Leno decided to have Watson back on the show just three months later (he must really like having Bubba on the show) to chat for a bit. But this Tonight Show appearance came with a twist.

After showing video of Watson using his pink Ping driver to open up a watermelon, Leno decided to take things one step further and have Bubba smash some produce items on the set with the big stick.

What could go wrong, right? Thankfully the stunt went off without a hitch, as Watson blasted a bell pepper, pineapple, pumpkin pie ... and a cake with Leno's face on it into tiny pieces. Not bad, Bubba.

Rory McIlroy and his new model airplane. — Getty Images

Welcome to golf's Silly Season, where tournaments start on ... Tuesday morning?!? Even though the PGA Tour's Fall Series just kicked off last week and the European Tour's Race to Dubai is still going strong, eight of the top players in the world will be in Turkey, starting on Tuesday morning, for the Turkish Airlines World Golf Final at Antalya Golf Club.

If you're wondering why the limited field event is being played mid-week, it's because tournament officials didn't want to steal eyeballs from the big tours on the weekend. While that's all well and good, it's clear the cash-grab in Turkey will be the marquee event this week -- despite the fact it's being played early in the morning if you live Stateside.

The $5.3 million purse, with the winner getting $1.5 million and the last-place finisher earning a paltry $300,000, is just another chance for the likes of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlory to grab an easy paycheck before the end of the year.

It's hard to blame them for skipping out on events in California (PGA Tour) and Portugal (European Tour) when tournament organizers are throwing buckets of free cash in their direction. Woods and McIlroy are the big names in the field -- they'll go head-to-head on Wednesday -- and they'll be joined by Lee Westwood, Justin Rose, Matt Kuchar, Hunter Mahan, Justin Rose and Webb Simpson.

In other words, you'll probably want to tune in ... if you can find it on TV. Normally you'd expect the Golf Channel to show, at the very least, tape-delayed coverage of the event. But the network plans to show exactly zero hours of coverage.

I'm confused, Golf Channel. Why not work something out and piggyback off Sky Sports' coverage? The Silly Season usually doesn't rate with golf fans, but when an event involves Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy going up against each other -- you'd think someone at the network would make it happen. But alas, we're stuck reading about the event online (or watching via online feeds).

As far as the tournament format is concerned, the players are split into two four-man groups. McIlroy, Woods, Schwartzel and Kuchar are in Group 1; Westwood, Mahan, Simpson and Rose in Group 2.

Players in each group will then compete against each other in medal-match play (lowest strokeplay score over 18 holes wins) with the winner receiving one point. After three round-robin matches, the winner from Group 1 will play the player who finished second in Group 2, and vice versa.

The winner from each semifinal will then go head-to-head in the final. Sounds easy, right? RIGHT?!? Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go lay down and rest my brain for a couple minutes.

Also, you can take a look at the tournament schedule after the jump (all times are Eastern Standard Time):