Don't expect Bubba Watson to join the cool kids table anytime soon. An ESPN.com PGA Tour Sercret Survey listed the defending Masters champion as the tour's least popular figure.
The question was a rather simple one and painted a vivid image: "[Blank] is in a fight in the parking lot. You're not helping him."
Bubba Watson walked away with an astounding 23 percent of the vote. Patrick Reed finished second with 11 percent, while Rory Sabbatini and Allenby tied for third with nine.
Taking the poll in stride, Watson addressed the results ahead of the 2015 Masters.
"Here is the way I take it: I take it as I need to improve as a man," Watson said during a news conference at Augusta National (via ESPN). "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 and so hopefully next year or the year after, it improves. It's a challenge. It's great. I'm glad that it came out and it's going to help me improve."
"So if it's a bad thing and people don't like me, then I've got to improve and prove them wrong."
To be fair, Watson's percentage was slightly skewed given the manner in which he answered it.
"I answered that question," he added. "I put my name on there because I'm not going to call out anybody; there's nobody I dislike on tour. I dislike them if they beat me, but I don't dislike them as a person, so I put my name down there. So, one of those names were me. I wrote it down myself."
Watson will tee off the second round of his Master's campaign on Friday at 12:42 p.m. ET.
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