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The Tiger Athletic Foundation has chosen to negotiate with a South Carolina developer to build a golf course on land donated next to the Mississippi River.
The TAF picked developer Ed Robinson because of his track record, which includes a golf course for boosters of the University of South Carolina athletic program, said Eddie Pullaro, a Houma lawyer who is chairman of the Tiger Athletic Foundation's golf course committee.
The foundation is a nonprofit organization that raises millions for Louisiana State University's Athletic Department, which has used the money for such things as improvements to Tiger Stadium. The idea behind the golf course is to bring in more money for the foundation, but Pullaro declined to reveal money prospects for the course and other details of negotiations with Robinson.
Robinson built the course in Columbia, S.C., with his own money and then negotiated with the athletic foundation there. That is not the arrangement with the TAF, Pullaro said, declining to give details.
It is known that the local golf course would be built on 200 acres donated in February 1993 by James Bailey of Premier Realty. Bailey's family owns another...