Chubby Chandler believes new International Sports Management signing Matt Wallace has lots of potential and says the golfer's long-term target is to challenge for major championships.

ISM chief executive Chandler finalised a deal with the 26-year-old Moor Park Golf Club professional at The Grove during the British Masters.

Wallace has been a revelation on the Alps Tour this season, landing five consecutive wins, which attracted the interest of Chandler.

ISM have a stable of top golfers such as Lee Westwood, Masters winner Danny Willett and Open champions Darren Clarke and Louis Oosthuizen.

Wallace is the latest addition and hopes are high the Pinner-based golfer can follow in their footsteps on the European Tour.

Chandler said: “He has lots of potential. We wouldn’t manage him if Matt didn’t. If you have a look at our roster of players we either have young guys with potential or people that are decent.

"We actually have nobody that’s missed their card this year apart from Simon Dyson and he’s had a few injuries so he’s slightly different.

"We try to get guys that are trying to be better than average. We are about trying to find lads that want to win majors and I think this lad’s really good."

Wallace, who is competing in the Alps Tour Grand Final this week, will bid to earn a European Tour card when he competes at the second qualifying stage next month but Chandler believes he has much higher long-term aspirations.

The former professional golfer said: “The short term goal is to get a card and the long term goal is to win a major. There’s no point starting out unless you think you’re that good. The difference is some guys really believe it and some guys think they believe it.

"I’ve got a feeling he really believes it. But he’s not a showy lad. He just gets on about his business but I’m really impressed with the way he is as a person and his manners. The way he goes about his job is very good."

Wallace is set to receive an invite to the Ras Al Khaimah Golf Challenge tournament next week on the Challenge Tour ahead of his bid to win a place on the European Tour.

Chandler said: “I think we’ve got him a couple more invites and he’s a very nice young man. I like him. When you’re managing people, even managing the nice guys is hard so you try to get nice guys as opposed to not nice guys.

“I think because of his ability to shoot low and win, he’s really interesting and we need one or two young British golfers."

Chandler has a wealth of experience after more than 40 years working in golf. He has seen the highs and lows, citing Westwood's fall and rise in the world rankings as an example, with Wallace likely to benefit from learning from the roster of leading professionals.

He said: “They are obviously all different but they are all actually trying to do the same thing and try to be the best player they can be. For some guys that’s higher than others.

"My guess is with Matt he can go an awful long way with a little bit of help on his schedule and just knowing what a golfer’s life is like. I played myself for 15 years and been with Darren for 26 years so there’s a bit of experience there."

Chandler continued: “One of the things we’re good at is we support their careers but are also quite good at helping them make two steps forward and never more than one backwards so they keep progressing. Over a period of time Westwood went from one in the world to 257 and back to one.

"There’s a lot of things that happen during that time going down and up. Hopefully you learn from when you went down and when you went up. Somebody like Matt should be able to benefit from that and also our older players tend to look after the younger players fairly well."