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BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) -- Jesse Schutte of Florence, Ore., beat defending champion Clay Ogden of West Point, Utah, 2 and 1 on Wednesday in the first round of the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.
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."
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) APTV-07-12-06 2121MDT
