Teeing off with Sergio Garcia would be good enough, but when your other playing partner is one of world football’s hottest properties, Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, you really are entering once-in-a-lifetime experiences.

A golf pro, originally from Bridlington will be doing just that, but for him, the real highlight will be meeting other people on the fairways.

Richard Jackson, a PGA professional for 30 years, has become involved with a charitable foundation in Spain, founded by Dutch football legend Johann Cruyff, which lets disabled children play golf with the stars.

He said: “It is an incredible experience seeing a child with false legs and no fingers being able to hit a golf ball 30 yards just by squeezing the club between his wrists. Also seeing a young girl with one arm hitting the ball 100 yards.

“The smile on these children’s faces says everything, and puts a lot of things into perspective.

“If ordinary golf players saw this then they might just be a little more tolerant with themselves, and also realise that they are meant to be playing golf and not working golf.”

Richard, whose parents Joyce and Charlie still live in Bridlington, will meet Garcia and Messi later this month

“During the last 30 years I have had the opportunity to work together with many excellent golfers such as Soren Hansen, and PGA champion Anders Hansen.

“But the experience I have just had working in Spain tops everything. I was invited to work together with ex-footballer Johann Cruyff in his foundation for handicapped children.

“We had a day working with children with Cerebal Palsy, where they also get to meet their sporting heroes,“ said Richard.

He has worked in Denmark, Sweden and Austria and established his own golf academy in 1986.

Earlier this year he moved the business to northern Spain and is now based at the Emporda Golf Resort.