~STORY OF THE WEEK~ WOODS PLAYS WITH NO PASSION

FANS ANGRY, CONFUSED AND DISSAPOINTED

After he'd changed his shoes, Tiger Woods leaned back against his locker at the Quail Hollow Club, put on his dark wraparound sunglasses and stared straight ahead for a moment. But there would be no hiding from this unpalatable truth. Woods had imploded like a modern-day zeppelin over Charlotte. He turned in a shocking 43 on the back nine at the Quail Hollow Championship, matching the worst nine holes of his 14-year career. He'd hit two fairways in shooting 79 and missed the cut by eight shots. It wasn't just the long game that was in disarray; the malaise had spread throughout his bag. "My short game was terrible," he said, "I three-putted there twice back-to-back, and you can't do that. I didn't get up-and-down at six and chipped the ball off the green at seven. You're just throwing away shots when you do stuff like that." It was only the sixth time in 241 career starts that the world's No. 1 had missed the cut -- never by a margin this big -- and the first at a nonmajor since 2005. He finished ahead of only 11 players. Laid-back Aussie Nathan Green was playing in the group behind Woods, and his mouth dropped when he got to the 16th tee and saw Woods was at 9-over-par for the tournament. "I can get him if I bring it home," he joked, and parred out to beat Woods by two strokes. That's what Woods has been reduced to: the butt of jokes from journeyman golfers. If the scores weren't bad enough, it was obvious to anyone following him that Woods gave up. (FOX Sports)