The Bowral club plays its club championship over a different format to most golf clubs, with the first two rounds played over the usual stroke format, while the last two are conducted using the match play format.

At the halfway point of the championships the top four players in each grade progressed to the third round, which is effectively a semi-final match play round, with the winners qualifying for the final round.

In A Grade Chris Murchie and Geoff Jansz made it through to yesterday's final, which ended up being a very one-sided affair with Murchie winning the event seven strokes up with six holes to play (7 and 6).

B grade was much closer, with promising junior Heath Canning (12) continuing his rapid rise at the club by taking out the club championship title.

The 15-year-old beat David Burgess 3 and 2, securing his maiden club title after finishing as runner-up in C Grade last year when he was playing off 21.

Canning started yesterday's round well and by the seventh hole he was three up, before a mid round collapse saw him came back to earth.

Burgess won the next three holes to even the scores, but Canning got back on track with a win at the 11th and never looked back until the 16th when the win and the championship was secured.

Bowral's club championship format was once adopted by most golf clubs in the country but has now fallen by the wayside, but Canning is a big fan of the concept.

"It's a bit of an old tradition here, but I don't mind it," he said.

"If you make one mistake you've lost a hole, whereas in stroke you can flog it the first couple of holes and be nine shots ahead and if you make onE mistake it doesn't really matter. So it (match play) does even it all out."

He said the conditions were very difficult yesterday and he was hoping they would call it off when a heavy shower hit the course in the morning.

"The greens had that much water on them, so it wasn't easy to putt and the holes were full of water, so it wasn't easy to play, but I managed to do all right."

Canning's next goal is to move up to the A Grade ranks next year and after dropping his handicap from 14 to 12 over the course of this year's event, the youngster is well on track to do just that.