The Snug Harbor project is proposed to replace part of a Newport Beach golf course with a man-made wave pool for surfing.

The El Segundo surf park, which has yet to be named, will hold about 5 million gallons of water in a 2.2-acre lagoon.

For most of the world’s population, the hardest part of surfing is getting to an ocean and scoring good conditions. But that’s changing. Over the last decade, artificial wave pools have started ...