Scotland’s Sandy Lyle has recruited a Mexican ex-boxer, ex-caddy and fellow Champions Tour pro in Esteban Toledo to caddy for him in next week’s Masters.

Toledo, and now aged 53, has dreamed for nearly 30 years he’s been a pro of competing at the Masters.

However the closest the ex-boxer came to walking the fairways of Augusta was finishing second twice on the PGA Tour and having that dream cut short knowing only a victory would earn a Masters invitation.

Esteban Toledo with his trophy after defeating Mike Goodes on the third playoff hole during the final round of the Insperity Championship, Saturday, May 4, 2013 at The Woodlands Country Club Tournament Course in The Woodlands, TX. (Photo: Eric Christian Smith/For the Houston Chronicle)

“It’s cool and I can’t wait to caddy for Sandy,” said Toledo.

“It’s going to be a dream that you don’t want to wake up from.”

Toledo, who in 2013 became the first Mexican to win on the Champions Tour, had envisaged caddying last year for two-time Masters winner Ben Crenshaw but with Crenshaw arranging for long-time caddy Carl Jackson to caddy in Crenshaw’s last Masters.

Lyle, who will tee-up in his 35th Masters, got word of Toledo’s dream and then Toledo got a call from Scotland and from Lyle’s wife, Jolande, saying:  “You’re on.”

Toledo had caddied for a time before turning professional in 1986 and reckons he knows the caddying ropes.

“I said to Jonande I’m like a kid in a candy store and that I used to caddy before becoming a pro,” he said.

“So I know the job description that’s ‘show up, keep up and shut up’ but I’m going to push Sandy all the way as I know he is a fighter, and I’m the same way.”