I don't quite buy that... without looking it up, who won the '06 Wachovia? (Tiger won the '07)
who won the '07 Arnold Palmer Invitational? (Tiger came in 22nd)
who won the '07 AT&T National? sure, it is Tiger's event to host, but your thesis is that he only play tournaments that he will be remembered for winning.

I do buy into BPC's theory that he ramps it up to get prepared for the majors and The PLAYERS (the Wachovia is right before the PLAYERS in May).

It's not just the majors, though. He plays in most of the Buick events b/c Buick has been a major sponsor of his for a long time now. He play is the increasingly mis-names World Golf events. He plays in the invitationals hosts by Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, and he plays in enough FedEx Cup events as necessary.

It's been called this before, but it really is his own Tiger Tour.

Did you know that the LPGA has a rule that every player must play every event at least once every four years? I really, really like this idea so that events that used to be somewhat major don't just disappear. Like the Canadian Open. Almost no one of any high rank plays that anymore. And, kind of like Interleague play in MLB where every city knows that the big-draw clubs will be by for a series every 6 years or so (Yankee, Cubs, etc), every host tournament knows that at least once every four years, Phil, and Vijay, and Tiger, and Furyk and all the big names will come through, and probably not all in the same year, so chances are good that every year there will be at least a few of the marquee players playing. It also would be good so that fans all across the country could see the marquee players once in a while, too.

Maybe 4 years is a little too fast, I think 5 might be better, and obviously you don't include the events that are the alternates to the really big events (like the U.S. Bank Championship that goes on the same week as The Open). But, the sad truth is that there are a lot of events that are quite simply dying, because none of the top players go out there anymore. It may not work today to try to institute that rule, because, again, Tiger has his own Tour and probably would simply decide that he didn't need the PGA Tour anymore. And, once he left, many of the top players could probably do the same. Nevertheless, I can dream about a chance that it might happen (yeah, right )