Powder Horn

Getting To Know: The Powder Horn

An Insightful Interview With Todd Bleidner, PGA Head Golf

By Brian Weis

Whether you have played a course 20+ times a year or looking to play the course for the first time, insights from an insider can help enhance your golf experience. Below is an interview with Todd Bleidner who shares some valuable tidbits about the course, memorable holes and must eats and treats at the 19th.

Give Our Readers An Overview of the Golf Course/Property
The Powder Horn is a planned residential community located near the foothills of the Big Horn Mountains offering 27 holes of championship golf with a two practice facilities. There is a full service clubhouse that offers upscale dinning, a bar along with banquet facilities. We have two tennis courts, a pool with snack bar and a fitness facility for our members to use.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
The golf course is ranked by golf digest in the top 100 modern golf courses and is ranked annually as the number one course you can play in the state of Wyoming.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
Keep the ball out of the long grass and below the hole.

Recent Awards or What You Are Most Proud About The Course?
The golf course is ranked by golf digest in the top 100 modern golf courses and is ranked annually as the number one course you can play in the state of Wyoming.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Stag #6. Just a pretty hole with the background and foreground. as good par 3 that you can make birdie or double bogey.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
My favorite hole is Mountain 4. The best view of the course and mountains. A short par 4 with a very tricky green.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Try any item from the turn grill or the prime rib.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage:
6,934 -Stag/Mountain
7174-Eagle/Stag
7129 Eagle/Mountain
Slope/Rating:
Stag-Mountain 72.9/134
Eagle-Stag 74.3/140
Eagle-Mountain 73.8/136

More Information
The Powder Horn
23 Country Club Lane
Sheridan, Wyoming, 82801
307 672 5323
www.thepowderhorn.com

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.