{"id":777245,"date":"2026-07-22T05:18:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777245\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:18:38","slug":"weber-states-braylyn-bayer-wins-medalist-honors-at-womens-am-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777245\/","title":{"rendered":"Weber State\u2019s Braylyn Bayer wins medalist honors at Women\u2019s Am \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 120th Utah Women\u2019s State Amateur golf tournament is loaded with current and former BYU golfers who are highly capable of claiming the individual championship on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Also in the field at Oakridge Country Club are former champions Grace Summerhays and Arden Louchheim (the 2025 winner)<\/a>, six-time champion Kelsey Chugg and a blast from the past, 1994 and 1995 champion Steph Belnap.<\/p>\n

Weber State golfer Braylyn Bayer, a rising junior from Bonners Ferry, Idaho, could not care less about that.<\/p>\n

After all, Bayer had to repay her dad for making the 12-hour drive from a small town near the Canadian border to caddy for her on Monday.<\/p>\n

Now 62-year-old Curt Bayer gets to stay in the area for another day, maybe longer.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Braylyn Bayer won medalist honors in the stroke-play qualifying portion of the tournament on Monday, firing a 1-under-par 71 to edge BYU golfer Nya Palmer and recently graduated BYU golfer Sunbin Seo by a shot. <\/p>\n

Utah Tech golfer Samantha Phelan, BYU golfer Whitney Banz (the 2025 medalist at Wasatch Mountain<\/a>) and New Mexico State golfer Rylee Salome were two shots back at 73.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is really cool (to be the medalist),\u201d Bayer said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know until my dad told me on the last green, so that was kind of fun to not know and be out there with him, and just (play) a good round.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bayer said she \u201cmade a couple of long putts\u201d to become the surprise medalist, including a 35-footer on No. 1 at Oakridge \u2014 No. 10 for her as she played the back nine first. She also made an eagle from 3 feet away on No. 16.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am glad he doesn\u2019t have to drive home tonight and go to work tomorrow. He can keep caddying for me, so that\u2019s nice,\u201d she said of her 62-year-old father.<\/p>\n

Bayer wasn\u2019t listed among the favorites by the Deseret News in an article previewing the tournament<\/a> on Sunday, but she is still an accomplished college golfer. She won medalist honors at the Sun Mountain Intercollegiate in Missoula, Montana last fall while competing as an individual, earning herself a spot in the full-time lineup. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have a really great team at Weber, and my coach is amazing, so I couldn\u2019t say enough good things about Weber,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Interning at an Ogden bank this summer, Bayer said her boss was nice enough to give her the week off \u2014 as long as she keeps winning. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think I can make a run, but there are a lot of really good players playing, so it\u2019ll be fun to see how it goes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, match play begins with Round of 32 and Round of 16 matches. Wednesday will feature the quarterfinals and semifinals, and the 36-hole championship match is set for Thursday. <\/p>\n

For her efforts, Bayer got a brutal draw \u2014 BYU golfer Ava Schroeder, a sophomore from Twin Falls, Idaho, who survived a playoff for one of the last three match-play berths.<\/p>\n

After seven golfers shot 7-over 79s, a playoff was held on the No. 18 hole at Oakridge for the final three spots in match play.<\/p>\n

Amanda Hanneman made a 12-footer for birdie on the first playoff hole to advance, and will face BYU\u2019s Palmer, a freshman from Las Vegas, in a Round of 32 match Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

The other six golfers made pars on the first playoff hole, leaving six women in the fight for the last two berths. BYU\u2019s Schroeder made a 15-footer for birdie and BYU\u2019s Aadyn Long made a 30-footer for birdie to advance, eliminating Lindsay Cook, Addison Branham, Madalyn Hadley and Kaylee Westfall. Hadley rolled in a 50-footer for birdie on the 18th hole to make it into the playoff.<\/p>\n

Orem\u2019s Westfall, who has signed with UVU, is probably the most accomplished golfer to not make it into match play. She won the Utah State Junior Amateur last month at Park Meadows.<\/p>\n

The Bayer-Schroeder match is just one of several intriguing first-round matches. In perhaps the most noteworthy, BYU teammates Whitney Banz and Berlin Long square off at 8:24 a.m.<\/p>\n

Berlin\u2019s sister, Aadyn, meets former Cougar Seo at 8:42 a.m.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s stroke-play qualifying results71 \u2014 Braylyn Brayer72 \u2014 Nya Palmer, Sunbin Seo73 \u2014 Samantha Phelan, Whitney Banz, Rylee Salome74 \u2014 Kelsey Chugg, Brylnlee Welch, Brooklyn Maes75 \u2014 Gabrielle Roznicki, Taylor Weingarten, Jane Olson, Brynnley Bischoff, Adley Nelson, Sydney Richards76 \u2014 Arden Louchheim, Grace Summerhays, Rachel Lillywhite, Hunter Gledhill, Susan Tiffner, Rosie Oettli77 \u2014 Ashley Lam, Ellie Jo Olsen, Remi Rawlings78 \u2014 Steph Belnap, Faith Vui, Berlin Long, Natalie McLane, Taylyn Wilson79 \u2014 Aadyn Long, Amanda Henneman, Ava SchroederEliminated in playoff79 \u2014 Lindsay Cook, Addison Branham, Kaylee Westfall, Madalyn HadleyDid not make the cut80 \u2014 Jailee Snow, Avery Kraatz, Salina Lui81 \u2014 Janet Koch, Kindra Hirasuna, Isabel Wade, Kira Connell82 \u2014 Morgan Thomas, Sierra CC Banz, Mikaila Lieu, Eleanor Henderson83 \u2014 Kyra Sponenburgh, Jessica Applegarth84 \u2014 Claire Olafsson, Isabella Pizz, Lily Shin, Annette Gaiotti, Angie BloxhamTuesday\u2019s round of 32 matchesTop bracketNo. 1 Braylon Bayer vs. No. 32 Ava Schroeder, 7:30 a.m.No. 16 Grace Summerhays vs. No. 17 Hunter Gledhill, 7:39 a.m.No. 8 Brooklynn Maes vs. No. 25 Steph Belnap, 7:48 a.m.No. 9 Kelsey Chugg vs. No. 24 Ellie Jo Olsen, 7:57 a.m.No. 4 Rylee Salome vs. No. 29 Faith Vui, 8:06 a.m.No. 13 Adley Nelson vs. No. 20 Arden Louchheim, 8:15 a.m.No. 5 Whitney Banz vs. No. 28 Berlin Long, 8:24 a.m.No. 12 Gabrielle Roznicki vs. No. 21 Susan Tiffner, 8:33 a.m.Bottom bracketNo. 2 Sunbin Seo vs. No. 31 Aadyn Long, 8:42 a.m.No. 15 Taylor Weingarten vs. No. 18 Rosie Oettli, 8:51 a.m.No. 7 Brynlee Welch vs. No. 26 Natalie McLane, 9 a.m.No. 10 Jane Olson vs. No. 23 Ashley Lam, 9:09 a.m.No. 3 Nya Palmer vs. No. 30 Amanda Henneman, 9:18 a.m.No. 14 Brynnley Bischoff vs. No. 19 Rachel Lillywhite, 9:27 a.m.No. 6 Samantha Phelan vs. No. 27 Taylyn Wilson, 9:36 a.m.No. 11 Sydney Richards vs. No. 22 Remi Rawlings, 9:45 a.m.\"\"BYU golfer Aadyn Long prepares to putt during the 120th Utah Women’s State Amateur Championship at Oakridge Golf Club in Farmington, Utah on July 20, 2026. | Fairways Media\/Randy Dodson <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 120th Utah Women\u2019s State Amateur golf tournament is loaded with current and former BYU golfers who are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,3125,99],"class_list":["post-777245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-news-feed-local","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}