Putting greens and fairways from London to Edinburgh are being sized-up for conversion to inland surfing parks by a new breed of non-Pringle wearing entrepreneur.

Advances in computing have - after decades of trying - finally made it possible to create an endless supply of perfect surf waves in inland lakes and dozens are now being planned and built across the world.

The world’s first commercial surf lake was opened by Andy Ainscough, son of the crane hire tycoon Martin Ainscough, in Snowdonia in 2015 and similar facilities are now planned for Bristol, Edinburgh and London over the next few years.

The Wave London wave will be built on the site of a municipal 18 hole golf course in the Lee valley area of the capital and its backers say they are scouting similar golfing facilities across the country.

“Struggling golf clubs in the UK and Europe are ideal, please point them our way”, said Craig Stoddart, CEO of the Wave, a private equity backed start-up whose first facility will open on a 100 acre site outside Bristol on September. “Golf courses not only have the space and affinity with nature we need but the planning [permission] to operate as leisure facilities.”