The Match Play Championship brought together the "Who's Who" of golf around the world. The Final Four produced a ``Who's That?"

Jeff Maggert, that's who.

With five birdies in eight holes, Maggert completed the carnage at La Costa Resort on Friday with a stunning victory over Tiger Woods, making it an All-American weekend in the first World Golf Championship -- but not the Americans anyone expected.

"Tiger was the dragon, and someone had to slay him," Maggert said after his 2 and 1 victory.

Woods was the last elite name to topple in a week of surprises, and he certainly made the biggest thud. Ranked No. 1 in the world and playing like he deserved it, Woods suddenly ran out of his match-play magic against a player whose only PGA victory came in 1993 and who is known for failing to hold leads down the stretch.

Much to the horror of ABC Sports, the semi-final seeds look like they were drawn from a Saturday night lottery -- Maggert, the highest seed left at No. 24, will play Steve Pate (61), while Andrew Magee (50) will go up against John Huston (27).

"I'm not surprised that a lot of the top seeds were gone early," Pate said after his 3 and 2 win over Eduardo Romero. "But I am surprised that there aren't any of them left."

This is one reason why the PGA Championship strayed from match play in 1958 as television came on the scene -- with the possibility of Sam Snead or Ben Hogan losing in the early rounds, there was no guarantee of a marquee matchup in the last two rounds.

Some things never change.

"It's almost like any week on our tour," said Magee, another grinder who hasn't won in five years. "It's funny that the four of us left are like regular tour-kind-of-guys."

Only this isn't a regular stop on the tour -- not with $1 million on the line for the winner. Maggert is already assured of the largest check of his career ($216,000), with $300,000 going to the loser of Sunday's consolation match.

But money was the last thing on his mind when he looked at the pairings at the start of the week and saw Woods looming.

"I knew I was in Tiger's bracket, and if I wanted to play Sunday I'd have to beat him," Maggert said.

Strong words from a player who was 143rd in driving distance on tour last year, and hadn't shown any signs of being able to beat Woods unless he got strokes.

Then again, this is match play, the fickle format that already had knocked out every seed in the top 20 over three wild and wacky days at La Costa.

Make Woods the latest and most prominent victim.

"It might hurt the ratings a little bit," Woods said. ``That's the problem with match play. But it's also the beauty of match play."

Maggert was flawless over the final 10 holes, and he had to be. This was David and Goliath -- the long-hitting Woods, equipped with one of the best records in match play of any American, and Maggert, short but straight, determined to prove once again that anyone can be beaten in match play on a given day.

Five of the top seven seeds fell in the first round. No. 2 David Duval and the rest of the top 10 dropped out of the second round, and Phil Mickelson and Fred Couples failed to qualify for the quarterfinals on Friday afternoon.

No one expected Woods to join them, not the player who won three straight U.S. Amateur titles and is regarded as the best American in match play.

"Tiger is the best player out here," Maggert said. ``He's proven himself over the past few years and his Matchplay record is impeccable. I knew I had to shoot 4- or 5- or 6-under to win the match."

Pate knocked off Couples in the morning and then stopped Eduardo Romero, who had advanced by beating Lee Westwood (6), Greg Norman (28) and Mickelson (12).

Magee squeezed past Bill Glasson in the morning and then got to the semi-finals by stopping Shigeki Maruyama 1-up. Huston rallied to beat Patrick Sjoland, then never trailed in his quarterfinal victory over Jose Maria Olazabal.

Woods was as impressive as he has been all week in beating Stewart Cink in the morning, and then looked like it might be a short afternoon when he made four putts outside 15 feet on the first four holes for a 2-up lead.

But he didn't win another hole after his birdie putt on No. 3 as Maggert refused to yield. He hit a wedge into 4 feet for birdie on No. 8, halved the par-5 ninth with a wedge into 10 feet for birdie, and caught Woods with a 20-foot putt from the fringe on No. 10.

Fittingly, Maggert took the lead on the par-5 12th Woods hit his approach with a 5-iron into the bunker, blasted out and missed his birdie putt. Maggert's 3-wood rolled through the green and he hit a delicate chip to 4 feet.

If he had bothered to turn around, he might have seen a huge blue-and-white banner hanging from a house that read, "Tiger's Championships."

The sign -- and the seedings -- proved to be wrong.

Maggert holed the putt, then went 2-up with a 15-foot birdie putt on No. 15. Woods simply didn't have the same magic in the putter, the same ability to rise to the occasion that he has shown so often in such a young career.

"I've seen him play a lot of match play, and it seems like he makes every putt he needs to," Maggert said. "Tiger probably wasn't as sharp. He didn't make as many putts."

With the final putt heading for the hole, Woods started walking as if the fists would start pumping as soon as it fell, but it slid by and he had nothing left to do but congratulate Maggert.

Asked if he was disappointed or frustrated, Woods said, "Both -- because I didn't win, plain and simple."