SAINT-QUENTIN-en-YVELINES, France — The performance of “Captain America’’ Patrick Reed for the flailing U.S. Ryder Cup team has been anything but patriotic this week in France.

It would not, in fact, be a surprise if Captain America’s passport were revoked after what transpired in Saturday morning’s fourball match alongside Tiger Woods against Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood, who dusted them, 4&3.

The count of holes that Reed was out of — whether with a ball in the water or buried in the gnarly, tangled rough — were about as many as he was in, mostly leaving it to Woods to try carrying the team on his own.

Reed failed to birdie a single hole of the 15 they played before being officially vanquished Saturday. He birdied two of the 17 holes him and Woods played in a 2&1 fourball loss to Molinari and Fleetwood on Friday morning, giving him just two birdies in 32 holes.

This isn’t exactly what U.S. captain Jim Furyk was counting on from the player who was supposed to be his team’s emotional fire starter.

Nor was Reed’s body language and expression, which can only be described as a blend between angst and a perpetual scowl.

Unlike in the past two Ryder Cups, when he was vocal and antagonistic toward the European players and fans, this week Reed has been as quiet as a shy sixth grader trying to fit in at a new school.

And that’s exactly the way the European team wants Reed: silenced.

You get the sense that perhaps Reed, when paired with Woods, whom he idolized as a youth, hasn’t felt comfortable being himself in Woods’ presence because of Woods’ presence, which can be intimidating regardless of how much he tries to make his partner comfortable.

Reed’s usual “I-don’t-give-a-damn-what-you-think” brash manner has been completely absent this week, and you wonder if it’s in deference to Woods. Whatever the case, it’s played perfectly into Europe’s hands.

Reed was Europe’s worst nightmare two years ago when he was defeating Rory McIlroy, the best player on the European side, in that epic Hazeltine singles match, during which he playfully wagged his index finger at McIlroy en route to defeating him.

He burst onto the Ryder Cup scene as a rookie in 2014 at Gleneagles, where he teamed with Jordan Spieth and made a name for himself by “shushing’’ the European fans whenever he holed big putts.

This has been a stunningly rough week for Reed, who entered having been on the losing side only once in nine career Ryder Cup matches, with a 6-1-2 record.

That sterling record has been blemished, but not as badly as his reputation as the catalyst for Team USA has been tarnished.

“Shhhhhhh.’’

That’s what Reed has heard from the boisterous European fans on every hole — a playful, repetitive dig at his “shushing’’ of the European fans the last time the Ryder Cup was fought for on European soil.

Reed has been booed everywhere he’s gone this week. The only cheers Reed has received have come when he’s hit balls into the water.

Indeed, Reed made himself a lightning rod and that’s made him a target for both the European team, which gets an added boost by beating him, and the fans, who relish “shushing’’ him.

Things got so insulting for Reed on Saturday that Francesco Molinari’s older brother Edoardo, also a professional golfer who’s played in Ryder Cups, trolled Reed during his match against Francesco with this tweet: “Captain America must have no passport! No sights of him in Paris!’’

Ouch.

Reed was not made available for an interview after match, but his captain, Jim Furyk, said, “I’m sure Patrick is disappointed. I know he’s feisty, I know he’s tough. The guy’s got more heart, more will [and] loves the Ryder Cup as much as anyone I know.’’

Before the matches began, Reed, addressing how he relishes his role as the villain with the European players and their fans, said, “I think the biggest thing is I know it’s playfulness. They are not booing me.’’

But that’s exactly what they’ve been doing.

“You expect to hear the fans kind of go back and forth with you,’’ Reed said. “If it’s not happening, it probably means you’re not playing very well, and they are just like, ‘All right, we’ve got him in check.’ ’’

Well, consider Reed held in check. If European captain Thomas Bjorn had scribbled down a list of goals for his team this week on a chalkboard before the matches began, silencing Reed would have been at or near the top of that list of things to do.

Reed certainly is not the only player who’s failed for Team USA so far this week, but Captain American has come up short.