You will see from the menu that there are separate sub pages for Mental, Physical, Long Game, Irons, Short Game and Putting. To begin with, entries will appear on this main page and then be distributed. Here are a couple of examples to get us started.

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Mental- "Let it go". You will have heard the expression "trust your swing" but what does that mean? Practice and play gives us an expectation of what will happen when the ball comes off the clubface. That expectation often falls apart in pressure situations, particularly if the general experience in that round has not been good. Trust your swing, yes, but more importantly trust the result.

It is a well known fact there is little you can do, despite shouting at the ball to "get down", "stay up", "break" or "bite", to exert any influence after it has left the clubface. If you truly trust what will happen to the ball after it goes into motion then you will not get into contortions during the swing that are aimed to avoid water on the left, OB on the right etc. etc. These contortions usually result in the ball going exactly in the area you tried to avoid.

You need to form a mental picture of the shot, go into your routine, and trust everything that happens from there.

Physical- The top of the full golf swing is reckoned to be one of the most demanding positions in sport. It creates a great deal of stress on the human frame and this does not decrease with the ageing process. Too many of our good seniors lose all or part of a season due to these stresses which most commonly present as back, neck, wrist and foot ailments. Yet, at 50+ we regularly jump out of a car having driven from Sometoon tae Nairn, fling your clubs on the trolley and have a couple of swishes with the driver before trying to knock the number off the ball with your first tee shot.

OK, maybe it's not as bad as that but how many of us have an effective warm up routine? This contributor endured a painful three months last year and does not wish any repetition. I can claim to be neither as sylph like nor as sweet swinging as the Rolls Royce frae Monifieth and so I go through a regular routine prescribed by my local physio. This takes less than 10 minutes in total and I'm happy to share it with you.

1. Lie flat on your back, knees up. Arms straight along floor and slightly out from the body, palms downward. For 2 minutes rotate your hips and knees right and left, keeping arms and back in contact with the floor. Do not overstretch but rotate to the limit of comfort.

2. Lie flat on your back, knees up. Palms of hands on corresponding thighs. Push hands up beyond knees and return ten times. Repeat exercise twice more.

3. Lie flat on back, arms flat on floor with hands about 6 inches out from body. Push posterior off floor by 4/5 inches and return ten times. Repeat twice more.

4. Stand out from wall or door by the length of your feet, facing outwards. Rotate your upper body to touch the wall/door with your right hand to the left of and level with your left shoulder. Rotate fully the other way. Repeat the two-way rotation 20 times.

When you finish you will feel stronger and more supple in the key areas of stress during your golf swing. Only downside- my recent experience when I was a visitor at another club. An elderly member in the locker room tried to help me out saying "Up you get old boy- I've had one too many as well"