text: Reigning Masters champion Bubba Watson admits he must 'improve as a man' after his fellow professionals appeared to choose him as the most unpopular player on the PGA Tour. An ESPN.com survey of 103 tour professionals - 21 of whom were major champions - anonymously answered questions on a wide range of topics, including which player they would not help in a fight in the car park. Watson, who is chasing a third green jacket at Augusta this week, got double the number of responses (22.6 per cent) of second-place finisher Patrick Reed (11 per cent), with Rory Sabbatini third and Robert Allenby fourth. Bubba Watson speaks during his press conference at Augusta National on Tuesday . The reigning champion skips a ball across the water on the 16th hole during a practice round . Watson has won two green jackets but not a popularity contest among his peers . Asked on Tuesday whether the survey results irritated him, Watson replied: 'No, I take it as I need to improve as a man. 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 hopefully the next year or the year after I will. '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.' Watson walks down the 12th fairway with Geoff Ogilvy of Australia as he gears up for the defence of his title . Patrick Reed, the self-assured American, came second in the players' unpopularity poll . Watson admitted he had been involved in 'some mess ups' on Tour but said he did not dislike any of his professional peers. 'I had the same question asked to me, so I answered that question,' Watson said. 'I put my name on there too, 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 own name down there. So one of those names were me; I wrote it down myself. 'Obviously, I've never been in a fight in my life, so if I was in a fight, it was my fault. 'I caused somebody to get angry. So yeah, I wouldn't help myself either.'
target: Bubba Watson was voted most unpopular golfer by his fellow pros .
  Survey asked which player they would not help if they were in a fight .
  Anonymous questionnaire saw reigning Masters champion come top .
  Watson said he took the result 'with pride'
  American defends his title as the 79th Masters tees off on Thursday .