08:00 AM PDT on Thursday, July 13, 2006

Associated Press

BREMERTON, Wash. -- Jesse Schutte ousted defending champion Clay Ogden 2-and-1 Wednesday during the first round of match play at the 81st annual U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, being played at the Gold Mountain Golf Club in Bremerton.

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Schutte, an 18-year-old recent high school graduate from Florence, Ore., posted four birdies in six holes on the back nine in windy, misty conditions.

Ogden, a senior-to-be at BYU, beat Michelle Wie last year en route to the title.

"I don't know what happened. I just made some putts," said Schutte, an 18-year-old recent high school graduate. "It was a great match all day."

Martin Ureta of Chile, the 2005 runner-up, also dropped out, falling in 20 holes to Joseph Prince of Chula Vista, Calif.

Stroke-play co-medalists Justin Metzger of Knoxville, Tenn., and Mitch Cohlmia of Tulsa, Okla., opened with victories on the Gold Mountain Golf Club course. Metzger, Knoxville beat Jeff Berkshire of Phoenix with a par on the 19th hole, and Cohlmia defeated Kevin Wentworth of Arnold, Calif., 3 and 1.

"I feel very fortunate to escape with that," the 21-year-old Metzger said. "I just wasn't as sharp as I was the past couple of days."