Golf swing is elusive, transient and difficult to repeat on a consistent basis. It's hard to have the same correct feeling every time you swing the club. Feel is ephemeral and intangible.

It's almost impossible to describe what your best swing should feel. You only know swinging with ease or without a forced effort results in solid ballstriking.

On the days when you have that certain feeling, you hit the ball perfectly, which drives you to be on cloud nine. However, the problem is that the indescribably nice feeling is totally transitory. It lasts only for a very short time.

The best way of having the certain feeling nice and relaxed is to prepare correctly as it is derived from proper pre-swing preparations. It is impossible to have that good feeling unless you grip the club properly, aim the clubhead correctly and align your body appropriately. Without correct preparations you cannot swing at a leisurely pace, which is also crucial to setting up the correct feeling.

It is hard to get the best swing feel and keep it from day to day. The swing itself is not simple. Even the same, consistent pre-swing preparations do not suffice. You are bound to swing in a somewhat different way every day depending on your physical and mental conditions. Golf course and weather conditions also affect your swing.

Simply put, no single golfer can repeat the same swing. Your swing is bound to differ each day or even every moment. Virtually, every moment when you hit the next shot, time would have already elapsed a little, which means you've got a little bit older than the moment you had hit your previous shot. It's natural that your feel and swing cannot be the same.

The only thing you can do to have the same correct feel is setting up in the same correct starting positions of your body and club, striving to swing the club in the same proper way every time.

It's true that you are doomed to swing differently every moment but you can at least make the same, proper pre-swing preparations, which enhance your chances to make the same swing.

With proper pre-swing preparations you don't have much to compensate for; less correcting movements facilitate getting the same correct feel.

A word of emphasis about pre-swing preparations, particularly grip that is crucial to getting back or sense the same, best feeling. Grip the club softly or lightly, ridding your wrists of tenseness. Too tight a grip pressure causes you to swing too fast, making it hard to sense the same, comfortable feeling. You need to grip the club with a constant light grip pressure so you can feel the clubhead weight.

Similarly, nice tempo and rhythm encourages you to have the same, relaxed feeling. Without the proper timing and sedate pace it's impossible to sense the comfortable feeling that enables you to swing the club on the correct path and plane.

Importantly, you cannot expect consistency to your shot unless your swing pace is leisurely.

Swinging at a leisurely pace allows you to change directions at the top of the backswing without losing control, making it easier to get back the best feeling you are striving for.

Importantly, to sense the certain good feeling or getting back the elusive, transitory feel in golf you need to practice hitting balls as frequently as you can. There is no magic solution and only practice breeds confidence, keeping the same, good feeling from altering or abandoning you.

However, be careful when you practice. Beating thousands of practice balls again and again does not help much unless you go through your pre-shot routine, examining your grip, posture and alignment. You need to practice as you really play to get the same, good feeling to stay with you.

To recap, what has to be done first when your swing goes sour or when you want to get back your usual good feeling is to focus on proper pre-swing preparations, sticking to the same pre-shot routine. Once you've set up properly, take the club away from the ball in a slow, deliberate way so you can swing at a leisurely pace with some 75 percent of your full power.