Kent's Ant Tarchetti is confident he will not be fazed playing in front of a crowd 50 times bigger than he has experienced before when he tees it up at the BMW PGA Championship.
The South Region's Order of Merit winner has played several PGA Europro Tour events and made his debut on the European Tour this season - admittedly at the less glamorous Madeira Islands Open.
But a place in the field at the Tour's flagship event at Wentworth will be unlike anything he has experienced so far.
"It is the big one. I have also got the European Open to play in but this is the biggest event in Europe apart from The Open," said the 27-year-old pro from Littlestone Golf Club near New Romney.
"I think if you asked the same question to someone like Justin Rose he would say the same as well.
"I've been told sometimes there are 25,000 going through the gates on one day - the most I've probably played in front of is about 500 people.
"Hopefully the game will hold up enough to impress them."
Tarchetti is optimistic he can stand up to the scrutiny of a golfing public who are used to watching the world's superstars - on television at least if not in person.
He is happy to be in the spotlight and hopes to handle the pressure.
"I'll try not to let it make too much of a difference," he said.
"It will be hard to do that. At the end of the day it is another game of golf - that is the way you have to look at it. You just have to go out there and play.
"I'll have a few friends and sponsors - people who don't normally see me play - coming to watch. And it will be nice for my wife Stacey (whom Tarchetti married last August) to see me play, which she hasn't done since I was about 18."
Tarchetti won the South Region's Order of Merit last year after a three-way shoot-out with rivals James Ablett and Steve Cowle in the final event.
The BMW PGA Championship has probably come too early in the season for Tarchetti, who admits he has not played as much competitive golf as he would have liked.
But with the season not really getting under way in earnest until May he has had to cram in as much as he can in preparation for facing the all-star field at Wentworth.
"I have mostly been playing PGA Europro this season - I finished joint eighth at the first event at The Shire in Hertfordshire," he said. "And now the BMW is here I just can't wait."