I would say, better late than never. Yes, it’s time for me to throw in my two cents about Tiger Woods.

With his recent mid-round withdrawal from the Players Championship, it looks like the Tiger Woods saga has taken another small, but significant, step downward. Complaining of “neck pain” following a horrid drive from the eighth tee box, Tiger decided to call it quits and once again welcome the media back into the world of speculation.

Right on cue, the questions came in with a flurry. Is the neck injury correlated with his Nov. 27 car crash that sent life to every magazine cover imaginable? Is this the end of Tiger and his endless chase of Jack Nicklaus?

Now I’m never one to deny second chances, or jump to conclusions with sports, but the “what if this is the end of Tiger” side of me won’t go away.

And as if he even needs my loyalty, even those close to Tiger himself seem to be walking as well. Hank Haney, Tiger’s famous swing coach, resigned a day after his Players Championship surrender.

That now makes Gatorade, Accenture, Gillette, his wife, Hank Haney and hundreds of thousands of once-loyal fans on the “Phil Mickelson never looked so good” bus.

And it’s not just all Tiger’s off-the-course issues that make me doubt his return to sport’s most dominant figure will ever happen.

Aside from his opening-round gem at The Masters on April 9, Tiger has looked uncomfortable in the tee box, unconfident with his reads and even human on the course for the first time this decade.

Tiger’s new scruffy, 5 o’clock shadow goatee look isn’t helping his scandalous image either.

I understand Tiger is trying to turn over a new leaf on the course, embracing fans, signing autographs and occasionally cracking a smile every once in a while. But what if Tiger’s arrogant swagger actually helped his game? When he was winning The Masters by nine strokes and U.S. Opens on the last putt, Tiger was about as selfish an athlete could get. But he was the best, an invincible sports icon with the toughest mental focus in the game.

Now that he has lost just about everything, every golf fan is wondering if his golf game may be lost as well. There’s no doubt that Tiger can still swing a club, but golf is at least 50 percent, if not much more, mental, and how can someone remain focused when his life is in shambles? As much as I enjoyed seeing a different side of Tiger for once, I wouldn’t mind seeing his ego shine through again and his scorecard immaculate.