Halls, Mollymook's rising golf star, played Harrison Crowe in the 2022 NSW Amateur Championship final recently at The Links Shell Cove.

While he left beaten, Halls should return to the Shoalhaven with the knowledge that it took a special performance to beat him.

Crowe, 20, reinforced his status as a blue-chip property of Australian amateur golf with a 6&4 victory in his 36-hole final with the emerging Halls.

The St. Michael's member made four birdies in the closing six holes of the morning round to establish a five-hole buffer at the break.

And while Halls, 17, pushed hard to bridge the gap in the afternoon phase, Crowe answered every challenge in style.

The Mollymook teenager threw four birdies at Crowe in the third stretch of nine holes.

However, Crowe, the recently crowned Master of the Amateurs and Vic Amateur champion, responded with five of his own to win his home state's crown.

"I was happy with that because Jye played great golf out there and I really felt like I had to push to keep things in (check)," said Crowe, who was calm throughout the day, but drawn into a rare fist pump with a downhill birdie putt on the 26th hole.

"That was massive," he said after knocking in his slider seconds after Halls' curling eagle try stayed out.

"Jye was coming, I thought and just starting to get into the match again ... so I needed that to sort of steady things a bit.

"He was a bit stiff with his own birdie putt on the (27th) and from there I just played steady golf."

Kelsey Bennett, the region's other star golfer, also took part in the event and reached the semi-finals.

Bennett lost to the tournament's eventual runner-up Shyla Singh in the semis.