# The Best Golf Courses in Sheridan

Source: https://thecourserankings.com/blog/the-best-golf-courses-in-sheridan-wy/

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A golf course in autumn foliage. Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sheridan sits under the Bighorn Mountains in northern Wyoming, close enough to Montana that the light and the weather feel like they belong to both states. It is ranch and coal and old downtown money, and its golf is exactly two courses deep. We are not going to dress that up. Two anchors, two different jobs, one clear winner.

That thin bench is not a criticism. A town of this size supporting a 27-hole club in the foothills and a city course in a park is supporting golf properly. We rank the golf first, then the day, and the order here writes itself once you see what each course is trying to be.

## 1The Powder Horn Golf Club

The Powder Horn wins, and it is not particularly close. The record gives the facts that matter: 27 holes, designed by Dick Bailey, set in the Bighorn foothills. Twenty-seven holes changes what a club can be. It means variety across a season, a spare nine when the main course is busy, and a membership that does not play the same eighteen until the holes blur together.

The foothills setting does the rest. Golf under the Bighorns has elevation, slope, and views that flat prairie golf cannot fake, and a designer who uses the ground instead of flattening it will always beat one who fights it. Bailey had the better canvas in this town and, on the record we have, used it to build Sheridan's destination course, the one golfers from Billings and Casper will drive for.

The concession is that a foothill club of this kind is a private, residential style operation, which means access runs through membership and guests, not a public tee sheet. A visitor cannot simply show up. It also means some of what you pay for is the community around the golf, not the golf alone, and purists are allowed to discount that.

Discount it a little, then. The golf still leads this town by a wide margin, and three nines in that setting would lead most towns twice Sheridan's size.

## 2Kendrick Municipal Golf Course

Kendrick is the city course in the park, per the record, and park golf is an honorable category. A municipal course in a town park is where Sheridan's kids learn to play, where the after-work nine happens, where nobody needs a sponsor or a blazer or a reason beyond wanting to play golf today.

It ranks second because the comparison is unfair and we know it. A city budget against a 27-hole foothills club is not a fair fight on design, conditioning, or ambition. Judged on its own terms, as the public door into the game in northern Wyoming, Kendrick does the job a town actually needs most.

The honest limitation is ceiling. Nobody drives from out of state for a park municipal, and Kendrick's regulars would be the first to laugh at the idea. They do not need it to be more than it is.

A Sheridan golfer with a free Saturday plays both arguments in one day without much planning. The foothills in the morning, when the air is still and the Bighorns are sharp. The park in the late afternoon, walking, cheap, unhurried, with no score worth protecting. That pairing is the real picture of golf here, and neither course makes sense without the other standing behind it.

That is Sheridan, complete: a foothills club worth the drive, and a park course worth having. In the evening the Bighorns catch the last light and the foothills go dark first, which is the right order to think about this list too. The high ground wins.

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