the new ruler of the game of golf, rory mcllory. >> but it meant a lot. especially it's not like i've struggled for a long time but i went through a period of a few, a couple months i hadn't played my best golf. >> rose: not even making cuts. >> yes not even making cuts. that's five tournaments which for me it's not where i want to be, it's not the place that i want to be. i don't want to be struggling to make the weekend golf tournaments. so to come back and play the way i did for those four days at the pga, it was very satisfying. >> rose: what was the difference between not making those cuts and walking down the 18th knowing you had the tournaments by a stroke. >> attitude. mental attitude was the difference between struggling in tournaments and struggling to make it and winning the major by eight shots. going out with the attitude of let's go ahead and enjoy this. for me that's the reason i play at the golf club was i loved it. as a kid i just wanted to play golf. i sort of needed to rekindle that spirit a little bit and not let golf get, not let golf

i >> rose: rory mcllory for the hour, next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: rory mcllory from northern ireland, the number one golfer in the world was introduced to the sport at the age of 2 by his father. it's often that way with champions. this also, it was love at first site. a year later he was being honed in the family living room. as a junior he traveled the world to compete and he almost always won. he turned professional at 19 and three years later became the number one player in the world. he was the second youngest player to reach the top spot trailing only tiger woods. now at age 23, he has won two grand slam titles, the 2011 u.s. open and the 2012pga championship. he won them both by combined 16 strokes. i spoke with him on monday and here is that conversation. we begin with this. what did it mean to you to win the pga? >> you know i always said that the second one would mean just as much as the first. the first is obviously going to be ve