RC Stevens ahead of the game with golf simulator [Video]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – While school is out for summer, golfers at Rapid City Stevens just can’t seem to say away.

The Raiders recently got a golf simulator and it’s getting lots of use.

“A couple other teams had launch monitors,” Stevens golf coach Nick Rotella said of what made them interested. “The guts, the brains of that whole thing. And they were bringing it out to the range. It was getting them carry distances and it looked really cool. And that was the first time that coach Dannenbring and I kind of thought about trying to put together a proposal.”

The first proposal didn’t go through, but Rotella and Dannenbring tried until it did. Now, inside Heier Gymnasium, the Raiders have a fully functional golf simulator, giving athletes about every metric you can think of.

“It’s just a few things that are very hard to eyeball on the …