David Liechty Breaks the Valley View Open Record in His Hometown

BYU golfer David Liechty grew up three minutes from Valley View Golf Course. On August 3 he shot 15-under over 36 holes to win the 2026 Mountainland Valley View Open on it, posting rounds of 64 and 65 for a 129 total that broke a tournament scoring record which had stood since 2017.

The old mark was 132, shared by Steve Schneiter in 2017 and Spencer Wallace in 2019. Liechty beat it by three. In doing so, the Layton native also became the first player to win both the Valley View Amateur and the Mountainland Valley View Open in the same season, having taken the amateur in May with a 6-under 66.

Two rounds without a wasted swing

Liechty's opening 64 did the heavy lifting. He made eight birdies and no bogeys, an 8-under card built on a five-hole birdie run from Nos. 7 through 11, with additional birdies at Nos. 2, 14 and 17. It is the kind of round that turns a two-day tournament into a coronation before the second tee time.

The follow-up 65 kept the pressure on rather than protecting a lead. Liechty birdied Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 11 and 17 for a 7-under second round, the front-nine start again setting the tone. Across 36 holes on a course he has played since childhood, he signed for 15 birdies against the field.

"Winning is hard to do in any sport, and it always feels great when you get one done," Liechty said in BYU's release. "I'm really proud of how consistently I played."

Consistency is the operative word. A single low round wins some amateur events; a record at Valley View required two of them back to back, on a layout where local knowledge cuts both ways — familiarity helps club selection, but it also raises the expectation to score.

A hometown course and a home-state season

Valley View sits in Layton, in Davis County, and Liechty's story is unusually geographic. He learned the game on the course where he now holds the tournament record, and the win completes a Utah golf summer sweep of the venue's two marquee events after his May amateur title.

That combination — the same player winning the amateur and the open at the same course in one year — had never happened before, according to the tournament's records. It gives Utah golf a concrete, verifiable milestone rather than a vague "player to watch" note, and it lands as Liechty carries the momentum into his BYU season.

The performance also lands inside a busy Utah golf summer, from the state amateur circuit to college rosters. Liechty's 129 is now the number every future Valley View Open field will be chasing.

The record margin, in context

Three shots is a wide margin against a mark that took years to fall. Schneiter set the 132 standard in 2017; Wallace matched it in 2019; the number then held until Liechty's 129 on August 3. He did not edge the record — he lowered it, and the opening 64 alone was low enough that the second round became about extending a lead rather than chasing one.

The birdie math tells the same story. Fifteen birdies across 36 holes, with the card kept clean, is a scoring pace that leaves a challenger little room. The five-birdie surge from Nos. 7 through 11 in the first round was the single stretch that effectively decided the tournament, and Liechty answered any second-round pressure by birdieing four of his first eight holes on the way to the 65. For a player who has known the course since childhood, the result read less like a hot week and more like a home advantage finally converted into the record book.

Liechty's immediate focus turns to BYU golf and the fall schedule, where he arrives off a summer that produced two Valley View titles and a new course record. The record he set on August 3 is not a season total or a projection; it is a completed result on a scorecard that stands until someone shoots lower.

For a Davis County audience, the appeal is that the milestone is authentically local: a Layton player, a Layton course, a record that will sit on the board the next time junior golfers tee off there.

Key facts:

• Player: David Liechty, BYU golf, from Layton, Utah
• Event: 2026 Mountainland Valley View Open, Valley View Golf Course (Layton)
• Winning score: 129 (64-65), 15-under over 36 holes
• Record: Broke the tournament mark of 132 (Steve Schneiter, 2017; Spencer Wallace, 2019)
• Round 1: 64 — eight birdies, no bogeys, five straight birdies (Nos. 7-11)
• History: First player to win the Valley View Amateur (66 in May) and the Mountainland Valley View Open in the same season
• Human-review checkpoint: Confirm Liechty's BYU roster status and class before any eligibility framing