Styal Golf Club could lose four of its 18 holes if government plans to build a motorway link road though the middle of the course go ahead.
The dual carriageway from Manchester Airport to the A6 in Hazel Grove is part of a £30bn infrastructure programme to boost Britain’s economy.
It was given the green light by Chancellor George Osborne ‘mini budget’ using cash from big British pension funds and Chinese investment.
But course owner Richard Higham, whose land will be taken under compulsory purchase if plans go ahead, says he is dubious whether the road will ever be built.
He said: “This has been going on for 20 years. We’ve heard this many times before. Until we get any confirmation we’re not going to worry about it. It’s all up in the air, nobody has contacted us about it.
“The government is a great one for making announcements but it never happens.”
If planning permission for the £290m relief road is granted, developers will need to come up with a scheme to protect the future of the course.
He said: “It would have a big affect on our course. We will lose the first and second holes, and part of the third and fourth are affected as well.
“We’ve not got the space to redesign so they will have to come up with some way of giving us more land.
“We are a successful club and if they put a road across it they have an obligation to put us back as an 18 hole.”
The proposed Manchester Airport Relief Road will provide a new 10km long dual carriageway, with sections of road built from the A6 at Hazel Grove to the eastern end of the existing A555 at Woodford Road, and from the western end of the existing A555 at Wilmslow Road, Handforth to the Belfry Hotel at Manchester Airport.
