Hannah Burke says it will be a dream come true to be captained by golf legend Dame Laura Davies this week.

Welwyn Garden City’s Burke has been selected for The Ladies European Tour (LET) nine-woman team to face the LPGA of Japan, Korean LPGA Tour and Australian Ladies Professional Golf Inc. (ALPG), in The Queens tournament in Aichi, Japan.

Davies, who has won the LET Order of Merit a record seven times, will be the European’s playing captain for the competition, which will include 34 matches comprised of fourball, foursome and singles matches, that starts on Friday.

Burke, who won her first LET title earlier this year, told the WHT: “I was right on the cusp of selection so had to wait for it to take place.

“I finally got the e-mail through, I’ve never been to Japan before so it will be good to visit and see a few things as well as take part in the tournament.

“It’s the first time this event will have happened so it’s good to be involved in the first one, it’s hoped it will become a regular thing.

“As it’s a new tournament and format it is a little bit like going into the unknown in terms of expectation, but I’ll learn from the experience and try to take as much from it as possible.

“Playing under Laura will be a dream come true, I remember carrying balls for her around 15 years ago in an invitational event at Brocket Hall.”

As well as Davies, Burke will be playing alongside some of the best female players in the world including four members of the 2015 European Solheim Cup team in Karine Icher, Catriona Matthew, Gwladys Nocera and Melissa Reid, as well as Denmark duo Nanna Koerstz Madsen and Emily Kristine Pedersen and Norway’s Marianne Skarpnord.

The Queens will be Burke’s penultimate tournament of 2015, the last being the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters, and she admits its has been a 12 months of extremes.

“It’s been and up and down year,” she said.

“I started off struggling and was mentally low on confidence, I switched a few things around and started to play better.

“I managed to get the win [August’s Tipsport Golf Masters in the Czech Republic] and secure my place on the tour for two years so that took a weight off my shoulders, which has then led to this.”