Did you ever own a Rubik’s Cube? Perhaps you’ve still got it and once you’ve finished reading this column – or whenever you get scunnered by these haverings - you’ll pick the thing up and start birling and twirling away in the fumbling, footering and forlorn quest to get all six sides matched up.

The reason I ask this is that my son got one at the weekend, even though I told him that if he was so keen to immerse himself in a mentally flummoxing, infuriating pursuit that teases, torments and leads to a lifetime of muttering, cursing futility then he should just accompany me to the golf course.

Apparently, the thinking behind auld Erno Rubik’s cubic creation was that he wanted to solve the structural problem of moving the parts independently without the entire mechanism falling apart. It sounds like the conundrum of my bloomin’ swing to be honest.

As Gary Player once observed, "golf is a puzzle without an answer." Perhaps I should just tell my young ‘un to stick with that daft cube after all?

For Robbie Clyde, the new man at the helm of Scottish Golf, there are plenty of things that need fathoming out. In the last eight or so years, the amateur game’s governing body has churned through more bosses than Hibernian Football Club.

Clyde is the........

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