The Professional Golf Association's (PGA) plans to open a regional headquarters and academy at a course near Cranleigh are in limbo.

According to sources close to the Wildwood Golf and Country Club in Alfold, it has been in jeopardy since a takeover was completed last year.

The site has planning permission for a new 84-bedroom lodge and a facility which was specified in the application as being earmarked to house the PGA's south east headquarters - with a view to opening an academy.

A source, close to the club, said: "With the lodge there was meant to be plans in place for the PGA to have a base here and to open an academy here."

A PGA spokesman said: "We sent a letter to the previous owners of the golf course to express an interest in possibly moving our headquarters over there and opening an academy base there too.

"This was purely a letter of intent and nothing has come out of that since. We have not had any dealings with the new owners."

Building work, understood to have been scheduled to begin last month, has not yet started.