Charlotte, N.C. – January 29 – The eGolf Professional Tour announced today an impressive list of business leaders that will serve on the newly-formed Board of Advisors for the 2009 season. Mr. Wes Jones, Chief Executive Officer of eGolf, heads up the panel of seven members that covers a spectrum of knowledge and experience in the golf industry. The Board of Advisors will serve as a guide to the tour’s staff in order to help position the tour going forward and create a platform from which to produce the best players in the industry. The members include Mr. Jones, Mr. John Harris, Mr. Kym Hougham, Mr. Ben Wright, Mr. Terry Hanson, Mr. Jerry Haas and Mr. Kelly Miller.

K. Wesley M. Jones

Mr. Jones is the Chief Executive Officer of eGolf and the founder and Managing Partner of Five Oaks Capital Partners, a private investment firm in Charlotte, NC. He is Vice Chairman of DesignLine International, a bus manufacturing company with a focus on hybrid electric engine technologies. Prior to forming Five Oaks Capital Partners and in turn eGolf, Mr. Jones was the Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Mortgage Finance for First Union Capital Markets. In that role, he oversaw all of the Fixed Income Trading activities and Capital Markets Conduit Programs for First Union. Mr. Jones serves as a founding board member and Board Chair of the Ethos consortium of Charlotte, a charitable organization which supports the musical arts while serving various community needs. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for Paragon Commercial Bank.

John Harris

Mr. Harris is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Lincoln Harris, a Charlotte-based real estate services firm. Prior to forming Lincoln Harris in 1999, he was the President of The Bissell Companies, Inc., a major commercial real estate and investment management company. A lifetime resident of Charlotte, Mr. Harris was honored with the Charlotte News Man of the Year Award in 1984 and the Charlotte Region Commercial Board of Realtors Cornerstone Award in 1994. He is a past chairman of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Board of Trustees, the Charlotte Sports Commission, the NCAA Final Four Charlotte Organizing Committee, the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce and the Charlotte Regional Partnership. He is a former member of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, a past director of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority and is a Mayoral Appointee of the Airport Advisory Committee. Mr. Harris is the President of Charlotte’s Quail Hollow Club. He was instrumental in bringing the PGA Tour’s Quail Hollow Championship to Charlotte and serves on the Board of Directors of Champions For Education, the non-profit organization that manages and conducts the Quail Hollow Championship.

Kym Hougham

Mr. Hougham is the Executive Director of the PGA Tour’s Quail Hollow Championship, contested annually at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. He is a past President of the PGA TOUR Tournament Advisory Council (TAC) which is a Board of Directors that represents all 48 official events on the PGA TOUR. He is also past Chairman of the FedEx Cup task force, an ex-officio member of the PGA TOUR Policy Board, a member of the 2007 Presidents Cup Committee, the World Golf Hall of Fame Advisory Council and the Hall of Fame Selection Committee. Prior to joining the Quail Hollow Championship in May of 2002, he served as the Tournament Director for the PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic in Moline, Illinois for a six-year period. A 1976 graduate of the University of Illinois, Mr. Hougham was the captain of the golf team his junior and senior years. Mr. Hougham and his family relocated to the Charlotte area in 2002, where he serves on the boards of various companies, including the eGolf Professional Tour.

Ben Wright

Mr. Wright is best known to golf fans as the voice of CBS Sports’ golf coverage for 23 years. He was a member of the CBS golf team that won an Emmy award in 1980-81, has been nominated for further Emmy awards on a regular basis and also was a member of the CBS golf team awarded the Peabody Award in 1992. In addition to CBS Sports, Mr. Wright commented on golf for the BBC, ITV, Australian Television (ABC, Channels 9 and 10) and in New Zealand. He hosted the South African Broadcasting Corporation and BBC’s worldwide telecast of the Sun City Million Dollar Challenge and broadcast the World Cup from Cape Town, South Africa in 1996. In that same year, Mr. Wright was featured in the successful golf film “Tin Cup,” which starred Oscar Award winner Kevin Costner. He won the MacGregor golf writing contest in 1982 and 1989 and released his autobiography, entitled “Good Bounces and Bad Lies,” in 1999. Mr. Wright appears regularly on CTV nationwide in Canada and has been featured in many newspapers and radio shows. He serves as historian and tour leader for travelers on tours of American, British and Irish golf courses.

Terry Hanson

Mr. Hanson is the owner and operator of Hanson Enterprises – a Charlotte-based Sports and Entertainment firm whose clients include ESPN, John Feinstein and the nationally-syndicated “John Boy & Billy” radio show. Prior to forming his company in 1994, he served as President of the Raycom Management Group from 1991-1994. Mr. Hanson was the Vice President of Communications and Broadcasting for the PGA Tour and was the President of PGA Tour Productions. During his tenure at the PGA Tour he managed all public relations activities for the PGA, Champions and Nationwide Tours, negotiated all major network and cable television contracts and successfully launched “Inside the PGA Tour” and “Inside the PGA Senior Tour” as seen today on Network television. He held that post from 1984 until his move to Charlotte in 1990. From 1978-1984 Mr. Hanson served as Vice President and General Manager of Turner Broadcasting’s North American Soccer League (NASL) professional soccer franchise and later became the first head of TBS Sports. In that role he took TBS Sports into 14 states, helping it to become a national cable network. He won two Emmys and two Cable ACE Awards for his work in Atlanta Braves baseball, NCAA Football and other sports programming. A native of East St. Louis, IL, Mr. Hanson began his career at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS, where he was the head coach in both soccer and baseball, and he was named the National Soccer Coach of the Year in 1974 by the NAIA. He also spent four summers as an associate Scout for two major league baseball teams, and five seasons as a Senior Executive in the North American Soccer League.

Jerry Haas

Mr. Haas is the golf coach at Wake Forest University, a position he has held since September of 1997. During his tenure, Wake Forest has produced 16 All-ACC selections and 17 individual champions. Over the past five seasons, the Demon Deacons have won 13 tournaments and three of the last four NCAA Regionals. Under Mr. Haas' tutelage, his nephew Bill Haas earned "First Team" All-America honors three times, was ACC Player of the Year twice and was honored with the Ben Hogan Award in 2004 – given annually to the nation’s best college player. Prior to joining the coaching ranks, Mr. Haas spent nine years playing golf professionally on the PGA Tour, the European Tour and the Nike (now Nationwide) Tour. He competed in 115 PGA Tour events between 1990 and 1995 and won three times on the Nike Tour in 1994. Prior to turning professional, Mr. Haas was one of the top amateurs in the country during a standout career at Wake Forest. He was selected to three consecutive All-ACC teams from 1983-85 and earned All-America honors in each of his four years. He won the Illinois Amateur Championship in 1982 and 1984, advanced to the semifinals of the 1984 U.S. Amateur Championship and finished T31 at The Masters Tournament as an amateur in 1985. Mr. Haas was also a member of the victorious 1985 United States Walker Cup team.

Kelly Miller

Mr. Miller is the President of the Pine Needles and Mid Pines Resorts in Southern Pines, NC. Over the past 11 years, the two courses have hosted four USGA National Championships under his supervision, including three U.S. Women’s Opens at Pine Needles. In addition, the two resorts have played host to 14 Carolinas Golf Association championships. In 2004, Mr. Miller oversaw a complete restoration of the Donald Ross-designed Pine Needles course – a project that lengthened the course by over 300 yards and restored many of the shot values that Ross had intended. An avid golfer himself, Mr. Miller won the 1993 Carolinas Mid-Amateur Championship and the 1994 North Carolina Mid-Amateur Championship. He also recorded a runner-up finish at the 1992 North Carolina Amateur Championship.