I found what I thought was a golf training aid hack.
The Connector by Sure Golf runs $119 (it’s on sale for $89.99). While scrolling Amazon, I found a training aid called Tnzudu Golf Swing Training Aid. It looked just like The Connector but the price was $27.99. I bought one to test it against The Connector.
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The setup is different right out of the box
The real Connector comes fully assembled and it stays that way. You take it out of the box and it’s ready to go every time.
The Amazon version has a folding design. The arms fold down so it packs smaller for storage. On paper, that sounds like an upgrade. In practice, it didn’t matter much. It’s still not a training aid that fits in the bag.
The material is where everything falls apart
The Connector uses a soft memory foam construction. When you place it between your arms, there’s just enough resistance to feel the pressure and know it’s there but it’s comfortable. You’re not fighting it or bracing against it. It sits between your arms and lets you focus on the swing feeling it’s designed to teach.
The Amazon version is hard.
Because of that, I found myself not wanting to use it. This isn’t a strength issue for me and I don’t consider myself weak but the discomfort of squeezing a hard foam ball between my arms made me want to put it down instead of picking it up again.
A stronger golfer with bigger arms might not notice this the way I did. But for a training aid that depends on repeated reps to build the feel it’s designed to teach, discomfort is a real problem. If you dread picking it up, you won’t use it enough to get anything out of it.
Does the concept even need a $119 price tag?
The Connector has never been my favorite training aid. The concept behind it is good. It teaches your arms and body to work as one unit and gives you instant feedback the moment they disconnect. But once you understand that feeling, you’re mostly good to go. It’s not a tool I find myself reaching for over and over.
Where I think it earns its keep is for newer golfers or players who struggle around the greens. If you tend to flip your hands through impact on chips and pitches, The Connector does a good job of training that out of you. It serves that purpose well. I just don’t keep coming back to it the way I do with some other training aids in my rotation.
The verdict
These two are the same shape and serve the same purpose but they are not the same. The folding design on the cheap version is a nice touch for storage but the hard foam construction is enough to make me not want to use it and a training aid you avoid using isn’t saving you anything at $28.
If you’re a newer golfer or someone who struggles with flipping around the greens and you want to try the concept, spend the money on the real Connector, especially while it’s on sale for $89.99.
If you already have doubts about whether you’d use it enough to justify the cost, this knockoff isn’t the workaround. I’d just skip this one altogether.
Tom Marvin
1 month ago
Not a believer of any training aids, it wrecks your confidence, cant take it on the golf course. Maybe alinement sticks at the range after you found your swing/pure impact. Study / watch golf videos until they become redundant , then you can see it with your eyes, believe it in your brain, trust your swing/impact in your heart . If you dont have a low point, you tube says 90% dont, you are going to be a inconsistent sweeper of the golf ball for the rest of your life on earth. Now can you give me a week, just kidding.