LET me start off by making two things perfectly clear - I am neither an expert footballer or golfer.

In fact, I have only played golf once - the "crazy" version aside - and my knowledge of football extends to aimlessly standing in a goal while my nine-year-old powers balls into the back of the net.

I don't know my Suarezs from my Ronaldos or my Rory McIlroys from my Bubba Watsons - proof of my point: I had to Google the golfers.

Therefore, I was not expecting to be any good at a game which combined the two sports together.

Welcome to Footgolf, which will be having its grand opening at Sapey Golf Club, Upper Sapey, on Saturday (February 28) and will no doubt be a hit with people who love either sports - or neither, as I found.

Wesley Joyce, UK Footgolf Association's business development manager for Worcestershire, reassured me: "You don't have to be the world's best footballer or golfer to play footgolf."

Phew.

The game is played with a football and the aim is to kick the balls into the large-sized holes on the golf course. You have ten tries to make the shot and no, you don't wear football boots but you can bring along your own size 5 football.

Footgolf began in about 2006 but was organised as the game it is today in The Netherlands in 2008.

Having watched Wes expertly take his first shot, I nervously lined up my ball.

All I was thinking was "please don't let me do a girly kick or fall over." so I was surprised when I managed to hoof it a few metres in the right direction.

A few more tries and I began to really enjoy it. Most of the time I managed to send the ball in the opposite direction as I intended - but the few times I managed to get it on target felt like a major achievement.

Wes, from Mill Street, Diglis, Worcester, got involved with UK Footgolf after reading about it in a national newspaper while he was in recovery from donating a kidney to a stranger.

"It was funny because, I read about Sally-Anne's plea for a kidney in the Worcester News then, almost a year later while I was recovering from the operation, I read about Footgolf.

"I emailed them and attached the story about Sally-Anne and was offered an interview.

"It's perfect because it combines two of my favourite things - football and golf."

Sapey Golf Club proved a good challenge with its hills and tree-lined fairways not forgetting its beautiful surroundings of rolling hills and, luckily for us, blue skies.

Footgolf players have their own clubhouse near to the final hole on the nine-hole course for golf and Footgolf which is just over the road from the 18-hole course.

People who are more experienced at football will rise to the challenge of finding the perfect curl or tap and precision to sink the ball.

For me, the challenge was just making sure the football did not go rolling too far down a slope to make it completely impossible to kick back towards the green.

Wesley helped, he encouraged and taught me a few tricks though if he did have to stifle a few laughs at my attempts then he did so discreetly enough not to make me feel like a wally.

But it is important to say I thoroughly enjoyed playing it and it will also be a lot of fun to play with friends, family or for children's birthday parties.

We played the full nine holes. Who won? I think we can all take an educated guess at that.

But, on my final go I was pleased to see I had curled the ball nicely up the bank and it ended in the hole from several metres away.

I don't think there is any possibility I will be turning professional anytime soon but I will be back with my family now I've had a bit of practise.

For more on Footgolf, log on to ukfootgolf.com, on Facebook search Footgolf Worcestershire or Twitter @footgolfworcs.

To find out more about playing at Sapey Golf Club including Saturday's open day, log on to sapeygolf.co.uk or call 01886 853506.