I know it sounds absolutely crazy, but it seems to be a valid question. Have we already seen the best of Tiger Woods?

This weekend, Tiger did pretty much the unthinkable. He was in the final pairing of a huge golf tournament...and completely imploded. He shot a 38 on the front nine, and by the time he finished, no one was paying attention to him since Henrik Stenson had already won.

I know the Players Championship isn't a major, but it's the biggest tournament outside of the majors, and it's something every player wants to win. So dismissing Woods' finish at Sawgrass makes little sense.

But perhaps his more disturbing finish was at Augusta. He made a huge run along with Phil Mickelson to climb into contention and then, just like Lefty, he choked down the stretch. It was strange to watch.

Part of me says, look, Woods is coming off of major surgery. He's played quite well for a guy coming off a major injury. An ACL tear, while not nearly as damaging to your career now as it was 20 years ago, is still an injury that takes generally about a year plus to recover from.

But I just can't stop thinking about how off Tiger looks these days. His tee shots are a nightmare and more importantly than that, his extreme clutchness suddenly seems to vanished. He's no longer sticking putts he used to. He's no longer intimidating opponents simply by showing up at tournaments. He's no longer making the impossible look easy.

Perhaps, as some people are suggesting, this can all be solved by having Woods change his swing coach. Perhaps, again, it's just Tiger working off the rust. But the problem is that in sports, as soon as opponents sense a weakness, they move in for the kill. Right now Woods is very beatable, and guys know that. Part of his mystique seems to be crumbling each week, and once that's gone, it's hard to get it back.

I'm of the belief that Woods will ultimately get things squared away and return to form and ultimately pass Nicklaus in career majors, but I think it'll be a lot closer than we all thought it would be 3 or 4 years ago. The days of the Tiger Slam are over, and they're never coming back.