The World's Most Innovative Golf Experiences Platform

Only THE TOUR CLUB offers one-of-a-kind experiences, unlimited access to the PGA TOUR, the world's most coveted destinations and an incomparable level of service for individuals and businesses. As a licensed provider of PGA TOUR branded TOUR Academies, TOUR Vacations and TOUR events, THE TOUR CLUB is the most breakthrough and cost-efficient personal and corporate entertainment option today.

About the PGA TOUR

The PGA TOUR is the most respected name in professional sports. Over the past 40 years, the PGA TOUR has built an unprecedented platform for the most accomplished, celebrated golfers worldwide, created lasting partnerships with hundreds of the most successful international companies, and established an ever-growing, global base of passionate, brand-loyal fans.

Since its inception in 1968, the PGA TOUR has raised over $1.4 billion for various charitable causes, including over $120 million in 2010, to lead all professional sports in corporate donations and giving back to the community.

PGA TOUR is the most trusted brand in professional sports featuring players who are looked up to around the world for their integrity, honesty and sportsmanship. It presents over 100 professional events annually with three tours: PGA TOUR, Champions Tour and Nationwide Tour.

For more than four decades, the PGA TOUR has created cost-effective and successful marketing partnerships with companies who understand the value of the world's most popular golf events and leveraging the popularity of the PGA TOUR brand to promote their businesses.

THE TOUR CLUB Management Team

Pete Estler, Founder and CEO

Pete Ester is the CEO of Club Holdings, LLC and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Quintess and DUO by Quintess. A founder of The Quintess Collection, Pete has been a key to that company's success. He is a successful entrepreneur with world-renowned expertise in club operations and management, luxury real estate, and integrated technologies, database marketing, business development, new media and finance. He was the founder and CEO of dbINTELLECT Technologies, and he founded and was CEO of MatchLogic. After 14 months of operations, MatchLogic was sold to Excite in an all-stock deal and in the following ten months returned substantial returns to the original MatchLogic investors as the Excite stock price went up more than 10x. Pete went on to develop a number of technology and financing startup companies through iBelay, a venture capital company and technology incubator in Boulder, Colorado that he founded.

John Fechter, Founder and Club President

John Fechter's relationship with PGA TOUR began as a licensee in 1999 with the introduction of the World Golf Hall of Fame Vacations and the world's first PGA TOUR Golf Academy. In 2005 he launched the PGA TOUR Experiences. With over 16 years of experience in the golf industry at an executive level, John has directed Golf Experiences' emergence as one of the country's fastest growing golf marketing companies and was highlighted in Inc. Magazine for his success in combining mass marketing principles with state-of-the-art back office operations to achieve rapid growth in the golf industry.

Ben Addoms, Founder and Chief Marketing Officer

Ben Addoms is a Founder and CMO for The Quintess Collection. Ben has 20 years of executive management and investment experience with private and public companies involved in online and off-line marketing, direct response, database marketing, advertising and publishing. Ben served as senior vice president at The Polk Company, one of the nation's largest database marketing businesses. In addition, he served on the board of directors of Harris Interactive (NASDAQ, HPOL). Ben was EVP of sales and marketing for MatchLogic and later went on to serve as its president after it was acquired by Excite@Home. Ben was also a managing partner of iBelay where he focused on the development of both technology and structured finance opportunities.

Rhett Trees, Chief Operating Officer

Rhett Trees is a sales executive, product developer, financial intermediary and business builder with 15 years of experience leading companies in the real estate development and high-net worth sales environments. He has special expertise in the funding and development of high-growth entrepreneurial organizations, with a focus on strategy, business development, and attracting like-minded talent. Formerly, Rhett managed all sales, business development, corporate development, and franchise development efforts at 1-800-PACK-RAT where he was actively involved as an investor and a member of the senior management team that orchestrated the $100M consolidation in 2009, which ultimately lead to a strategic sale with Waste Management. Rhett was one of the first 20 employees at Exclusive Resorts, where he was an instrumental player as the firm grew from the seed-capital stage to a multimillion-dollar liquidity event with Revolution and Steve Case, founder of AOL. Rhett served as the Director of National Sales for the U.S. and Latin America and, at the time of his departure, was the most prolific salesperson in company history. During his tenure, the company grew to $1.3 billion in assets under management. Prior to Exclusive Resorts, he performed various roles in the sales management and product development areas at Owens Corning, a Fortune 500 company.

Chris Tivey, Founder and SVP, Marketing

Chris Tivey served for 10 years as CEO of The Hathaway Group, a prominent marketing, branding and advertising firm in Toronto, Canada. He later helped found and was a partner in the marketing firm E&S (Envisioning and Storytelling) in Vancouver, B.C. working closely with resort developer pioneers like Intrawest Corporation, concentrating exclusively on the destination, second-home, and luxury real estate marketplace. Chris joined Star Resort Group in 2000 as VP marketing and went to serve as president until 2007 when he formed Gravity Destination Properties, Inc. Chris is considered one of the foremost luxury fractional ownership experts in North America.

Paul Davis, SVP, Business Development

Paul Davis has more than 25 years experience in sales, business and corporate development with over $1 billion in transactions to his credit. He is among The Quintess Collection founder team and was instrumental in its growth from zero to over 400 Members within its first four years of operations. Paul was a senior executive at EDS and was responsible for the selling and management of large outsourcing contracts to Fortune 100 banks. Paul was instrumental in the formation of the e-commerce solutions division for EDS, which under his guidance grew from startup mode to more than $500 million in annual revenues. He later served as vice president of sales and business development for Match Logic Inc, where he sold more than $100 million in new contract business during his three year tenure.

Bryan Schwartz, General Counsel

Bryan Schwartz manages all legal matters including the preparation and carrying out of real estate transactions, corporate and securities matters, and club operations. Prior to joining Club Holdings, Bryan practiced law at the Denver firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, P.C., where he focused primarily on real estate transactions, including real estate finance, development, purchase, and sale and leasing. Prior to that, Bryan practiced at the Denver firm of Rothgerber Johnson and Lyons, LLP, where he focused on real estate transactions and corporate and securities matters.