Tiger Woods called into The Fred Couples show on the SiriusXM PGA TOUR channel on Tuesday afternoon and spoke to Couples and co-host George Downing about several hot topics including his recent 82nd win on Tour, the upcoming Presidents Cup, his recovery from a recent procedure on his knee and more.

After claiming his 82nd win on the PGA Tour at the recent Zozo Championship, Woods spoke to Couples and Downing about the consistency and longevity needed to make that number of wins possible.

*All quotes courtesy of The Fred Couples Show on SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio

“Well I think that if you want to get to that number, one, you’ve got to have consistency, and longevity, and you have to put yourself there a lot of times. You’re not going to win them all but you have to put yourself there a lot, and the majority part of my career I’ve done that.

“To add them up to 82, it’s just a big number. (laughs) I’ve been doing for a little over two decades and to be as consistent as I have been, it hasn’t been easy but it’s been a lot of fun.”

Woods took time off earlier this year to recuperate from arthroscopic surgery on his knee to repair minor cartilage damage and talked in detail to his hosts about his process of recovery.

“The first time I picked up my putter and I started putting with it, my putter felt better. My knee was able to move, it wasn’t locked. So that was already a positive right away. But it did take me probably close to 6-7 weeks to be able to squat all the way down. I had to break through a lot of scar tissue that built up from the procedure.

“I had to get through that. I still had to do all my PT to gain strength around my quad, my hamstring, my calf, all the way up to my glutes, so making sure everything was firing. It’s not quite the size that I would like it to be, but it certainly has range of motion, which is nice, and it has the endurance. And that endurance was really tested on Sunday when we had to play 29 holes that day.”

The 15-time major champion’s consecutive cut-streak record of 142 from 1998-2005 is a record which most golf fans don’t see being broken in the foreseeable future, if at all, and the achievement made its way into the conversation between the three men on Tuesday.

As well as speaking about the pride he has in the record and the toughness it shows, Woods also explained how no tournament victory is out of reach should you make it to the weekend.

“Well the 142, that is, I think, one that shows toughness. It shows an attitude that I never give up, because there are plenty of days when you don’t have the game, you’re hurt, things aren’t going right, you get the bad end of the draw, get the worse weather, wind may kick up. All these different variables that can happen that we see the more your play the TOUR, the more you see it. And for some reason I was able to fight and grind my way around there to make the cut on the number a bunch of times.

“I remember one time in San Diego I made the cut on the number, went out and shot 62-65 on the weekend to beat Billy Ray Brown. So if you make the cut on the number there’s always a chance you can win it, and in order to win a tournament you got to get to the weekend.”

On his upcoming role as captain (possibly playing captain) at the Presidents Cup, Woods discussed the experience of the U.S. side despite some of the players’ relatively young ages, as well as the importance of preparation to be ready from the get-go and to shake off any potential fatigue after taking the long haul trip to Australia.

“As far as the team, the team is very young, and they know each other really well which is great. There’s very little crossover of different generations. I think myself and Kuch (Matt Kuchar) may be the older ones on the team but other than that most of the guys are in their 20s or early 30s so they’ve been around each other for a while and they know each other. There are a couple of rooks on the team but still these guys have won playoff events and World Golf Championships so I don’t really consider them rookies.” 

“We have a very solid team going down there. The only thing is we are playing [in] Australia which is a long haul, a long trip. We’ll need to get over the jet lag as fast as we can, get the guys fired up and ready to go and go [for] points and accumulate them as quickly as possible.”

The Fred Couples Show airs monthly on SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio.