Watson on being disliked by peers: 'I need to improve as a man'
A recently released survey of Bubba Watson's PGA Tour peers shows he's not well-liked, and the two-time Masters champion takes that as a challenge to be a better person.
"I take it as I need to improve as a man," Watson said Tuesday at Augusta National. "I take it with pride. I need to get better. And I think over my career, since my rookie season to now, I've gotten better. But obviously there's more room for me to improve as a man."
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He added, "So if it's a bad thing and people don't like me, then I've got to improve and prove them wrong."
ESPN.com surveyed 103 PGA Tour players, with 23 of those players saying the player they wouldn't help get out of a parking lot fight would be the defending Masters champion. Patrick Reed came in second place.
Watson's had his share of gaffes in his career, from an on-course disagreement with Steve Elkington, to sounding like an ugly American in overseas tournaments, to poor on-course treatment of caddie Ted Scott, to deciding not to compete in the revived PGA Championship long-drive contest despite his prodigious length.
Despite the anonymous feedback from his peers, Watson maintained he has no enemies on Tour.
"There's nobody I dislike on Tour," he said. "I dislike them if they beat me, but I don't dislike them as a person."
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