The Australian Greenkeepers Federation Week was held in Adelaide, with over 100 greenkeepers from NSW, QLD, SA and Victoria gathering for a week of Seminars and Bowls. Six Test Matches are held with each state playing each other twice, with Championship Matches ( Singles, Pairs & Fours ) also held. Our team, while not having any state bowlers in it.... like other teams, held our own.... especially against NSW.... who we beat twice to reclaim the Arthur Parry Trophy. Close matches against QLD nearly got us off the bottom of the table, but it wasn’t meant to be this year. The very strong Sth Australia team won the Test Series with 5/6 wins, we finished with just the two wins, but it always great to knock over NSW. In the Championship stakes we had a pairs team ( Mark Colless & Warren Maynard ) make the Semi Finals as well as a Fours Team ( Adrian Marston, Rod Jackson, Dyson Appleyard & Alan Mathers ). Unfortunately both were knocked out. A great effort though to get through. Congratulations to the SA greenkeepers for their organisation of the week and I am sure that all will agree it was a great week, the greens were excellent and we were very well looked after. The seminars were informative and the general chat between all who attended made for some great discussions in relation to our industry. The highlight was the tour of the Adelaide Oval.... what a beautiful ground, it will be interesting to see how it comes up after the development is finished. Thanks to our sponsors for the week, K & B Adams ( great to see Mark & Billy come over ) Globe, Turf Diagnostic Solutions & Colin Campbell Chemicals ( also great to see Nadeem here as well. ) To our boys, bad luck on the greens but we never gave up and here’s to the next Federation Week in 2014 held in NSW. Federation Week Conference & Carnival