Delaney: Turning Stone end is about the golf

The sun was setting on a perfect fall evening Sunday. Not too hot, not too cold, the weather was just right for golf in Upstate New York.

I wasn't completely comfortable, though. My lower legs hurt from six days of walking around Atunyote Golf Course. Despite my poor physical fitness level, I couldn't help but feel alive on the inside.

Watching fans, photographers and camera men hustle from one playoff hole to the next, it was hard to miss the on-the-edge-of-your-seat feeling in the air for the playoff between Matt Kuchar and Vaughn Taylor at the Turning Stone Resort Championship. The unseasonable weather earlier in the week cleared and the tournament was finally about golf.

I went with the crowd to No. 12 where the tournament was suspended by darkness without a winner, which was a bit anticlimactic. I felt slightly cheated as I walked back toward the clubhouse in search of tournament officials for comment.

Kuchar eventually won the tournament on the sixth playoff hole Monday morning and the $1.08 million that went with his second PGA Tour victory.

I walked back to the media center and noticed a huge moon hanging in the sky. The beautiful evening was over, but we got exactly what we came for - great golf.

Let's hope there is more professional golf at Atunyote in years to come.