Kel Cooke wins Leeholme Cup following a marathon fifth extra hole final against Daniel Stibbard

That's not a typo.

After five extra holes of golf the 2020 cup winner was decided on the weekend when Cooke claimed the title in an exhausting battle of attrition at the Bathurst Golf Club.

Both players had enjoyed their share of upsets on the run towards the final, and with their individual handicaps very close to each other they were expected to put on a show for the deciding game.

They did just that, never letting each other get far out of their sight in a matchplay round worthy of being the grand final.

Cooke took down Warren Matthews, Dan Ross, David Hitchick and Grant Bowman on his path to the final.

Stibbard's road was a slightly longer one.

He won against Matt Lester, Steve McDonald and Tony Wilds before undergoing a gruelling four extra hole contest with Tony Pryce.

Never could he have imagined that the final would last even longer.

Bathurst Golf Club general manager Brad Constable said the final was an incredible effort from Stibbard to play two back-to-back extra hole efforts.

"Daniel's gone and been beaten on the 23^rd after winning a game on the 22^nd. It's just one of those things that happens sometimes," he said.

"It's rare to see a match go that far. They can often to go to extra holes but not to that extent. I think you'll be hard pressed finding an example of someone as far as Daniel did in back-to-back matches.

"Daniel plays of six and Kel plays off four so I can understand it being a close match, even though matchplay is a holy by hole sort of thing."

But Cooke was just too strong in the end, adding his biggest win at the Bathurst Golf Club since his 2016 Foursomes Championship crown.

"This has to be one of the biggest individual honours of his career, especially since he's a hockey player. He's a very talented player from everything that I've seen and been told," Constable said.

With the conclusion of the cup the attention now turns towards a couple of the clubs larger events towards the end of the year.

Constable and the team are looking forward to getting some of those events underway, when they weren't looking likely earlier in the year.

"Country Championships have been cancelled by Golf NSW though, because they don't want different districts travelling to each other at this stage, which is very understandable," he said.

"We start to ramp up in November with the men's and ladies foursomes then we have the club championships in the last two weekends of the month, which is obviously a bit late this year."