Introducing Divot

If you've ever tried to film your own golf swing, you know the drill. Prop your phone against your bag, start a timer, jog back to the ball, hope the angle is right, hit the shot, jog back, scrub through two minutes of video to find the three seconds that matter. Repeat fifty times.

It's even worse with a friend or coach. One person films, the other hits, and then you crowd around a phone trying to pinch-zoom on a tiny screen while the sun washes out the display. There has to be a better way.

What Divot does

Divot connects two devices directly over your local WiFi network. One acts as the camera, the other as the viewer. The video streams peer-to-peer — nothing goes through a cloud server, nothing gets uploaded, and there's no lag.

Set your camera phone down the line or face-on, connect from your second device (or hand it to your coach), and start hitting. Divot uses on-device pose estimation to detect your swing automatically, so each rep is captured and saved as a clip without you touching anything.

After each swing, you can review the clip with frame-by-frame scrubbing, slow motion, and drawing tools. Mark your swing plane, check shaft lean at impact, or trace your hip turn — then export the annotated clip to share with your coach or post to Instagram.

Why peer-to-peer?

Most swing analysis apps either require you to upload video to a server for processing (slow, eats your data plan at the range) or only work on a single device. The peer-to-peer approach gives you the best of both:

• Instant feedback — video streams directly between devices with minimal latency
• No uploads — everything stays on your local network, no cellular data required
• Privacy — your video never touches our servers
• Two perspectives — the camera device films while the viewer device lets you (or your coach) watch and review in real time

What's next

Divot is coming soon to iOS and Android. The first release focuses on the core loop: connect, film, review, annotate. From there, the roadmap includes swing tempo analysis, side-by-side comparison between clips, and club path tracking using on-device ML.

If you want to be notified when Divot launches, drop me a line at doug@skeelsoftware.com.