On Tuesday, Tiger Woods spoke with SiriusXM’s Brian Katrek and Taylor Zarzour where the 15-time major champion discussed his 2019 Masters victory, how his Presidents Cup captaincy is keeping him up all night, and his playing schedule moving forward.

Speaking on his remarkable win at Augusta National back in April, Woods admitted to his hosts that the victory has finally sunk in, and how his game clicked that week.

*All quotes courtesy of SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio

“It has (sunk in), That part has, just looking back at how I pulled it off somehow. Just everything came together for one week. I started to hit the ball up in the air, I started drawing it better, my feel was great around the greens, my speed on the greens was good, it was just a matter of getting myself in contention.”

Woods explained how his mind worked heading to the back nine, and how he felt he needed to be aggressive down the final stretch to see off the half a dozen players in contention.

“Then all of a sudden I found myself in contention, and it was weird playing in threesomes on Sunday, going out early, then all of a sudden sparks started flying on 12, and coming in so many guys had a chance. Five or six guys at one point had a share or outright share of the lead on the back nine, so it was a ‘who’s who’ of who’s going to win this thing, and I figured I needed to make four or five birdies on the back nine to have a chance and I was able to do that.”

The 43-year-old also admitted that he soaked the win in more than any other in his career due to his struggles over the few years preceding the victory.

“I did (soak it in), only because I didn’t know if I would ever have this opportunity again. Where I was a few years ago, was not a good place – I was hoping to walk again, to walk without pain. It was a tough period of my life, and I just wanted to be out of that, and I was fortunate to have the operation and give myself a chance to have a normal life.

Then all of a sudden my hands started saying ‘we can do this again’, and I figured out some sort of swing, that’s not what it used to be, it’s worked around what my back can do, and I still have the hands to do it.”

As the subject moved to Presidents Cup duties next week, Woods talked about the communication process in preparation for the event, and how the worldwide destination of both his vice-captains and players has led to little opportunity to sleep.

“I don’t sleep anyway, but there have been some long, long nights. At one point, Woodland just went to DPT in Japan, and I’m getting texts from him at weird hours, Reed was over in Dubai so getting some weird texts at weird hours.

Fred’s (Couples) over on the west coast, and Fred’s staying up late which puts me at about 2,3,4 in the morning texting with Fred, by the time that’s up, it’s time to go to the gym, wake up and start my day and next thing I realize is that it’s been about three days since I slept.”

Despite the lack of sleep, Katrek and Zarzour mentioned the fresh appearance of their guest in contrast to last year, and commenting on his plans for his schedule next year, Woods said it’s going to be a similar limited schedule like we saw in 2019.

“Well, I played too much last year. That was a mistake, and this past year I backed off my schedule, played a little bit less, and I think that’s probably going to be my schedule going forward. I can’t play as much as I used to. There’s no way. And understanding that – and then probably more than anything this year was trying to understand how to prep for the major events that we had each and every month.

With the condensed schedule, tournaments I like to play that I traditionally have played, times I’m usually taking breaks, can’t really take those breaks anymore. So trying to figure all that out and then I had a knee issue, an oblique issue this year, so that has been one of those deals.”

KM on Tap airs weekly on SiriusXM Radio, and the full interview with Woods is available to listen to now on SiriusXM On Demand.