FOUR-time Wagga Country Club champion Jarrod Meacham expects a serious challenge from the club's younger brigade as he chases a third consecutive title over the next two weekends.

Wagga Country Club will hold its annual club championships over the next two weekends where Meacham will start the favourite as he bids to win the event for a third straight year.

Meacham finished runner up to Sydney rising star Jarrod Freeman in the City of Wagga Open where a bogey on the final hole saw him go down by one-shot.

The Wagga concreter yesterday hosed down his chances of a fifth club championships.

"I'm going to need to play some really good golf to beat the young guys," Meacham said.

"I've been flat out with work and haven't been able to practice that much.

"I've been hitting the ball pretty solid but my putting has been letting me down a little bit.

"I'm normally a better putter than I am a ball striker but it's gone the other way at the moment."

Meacham first took out the Country Club championships back in 1998 and then won the event again in 2008, 2012 and 2013.

He rates former Wagga Country Club young gun Kurt Burns as a massive danger.

"There is a couple of good young kids playing this weekend that will be very hard to beat," he said.

"Young Kurt Burns...he;s in good form and has been playing a fair bit.

"Young Kurt Pideski, he had a bit of a lay-off over the last couple of years but he's rejoined and has been practicing a fair bit. He's got the game.

"Henry Brind and Brian Harris, and young Bart Carroll, he's only 11, but he's been in good form of late."

The first two rounds of the four-round championship will be played on Saturday and Sunday.