Palmer is talking with Tampa broker and former pro quarterback John Reaves who has had the 1,433-acre property under contract for two years. Reaves played with the Tampa Bay Bandits in the defunct United States Football League in 1985.

Palmer and Reaves couldn't be reached at GlobeSt.com's publication deadline to learn if the 72-year-old Palmer, a multimillionaire, will also have an equity interest in the entire project or will build the courses himself at an undisclosed estimated cost.

But a recreational land-planning group's estimator in Orlando tells GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity class A courses that qualify for national and international tournaments usually are constructed for about $50,000 per hole. That would put the Palmer project alone at $1.8 million.