The most naturally gifted golfer in the field at Augusta National is also the least popular. It is an uncomfortable locker-room truth that was confirmed with the publication of a survey of PGA Tour professionals.Bubba Watson was the player the pros identified as the man they would be least likely to help if they came across him being beaten up in the car park.Watson is a twitchy, startled-looking figure in the calmest of surroundings.As if he did not have enough to deal with, hosting Tuesday night's champion's dinner and getting ready to chase his third Green Jacket in four years, now he had to deal with the extraneous brutality of the American media monolith, ESPN.Talk about clubbing a man on the back of the head with a five-iron. Even his US Ryder Cup colleague Patrick Reed - who has a well-earned reputation on the circuit for being pricklier than a Cholla cactus - can count on more help from his peers, according to the ESPN "Secret Survey" of PGA Tour pros.Said Watson: "Here's the way I take it. I take it as I need to improve as a man. I need to get better."And I think over my career, since my rookie season until now, I've gotten better."But obviously there is more room for me to improve as a man. It's a challenge. I'm glad [the survey] came out and it's going to help me improve."To emphasise his point, Watson revealed that he had filled in the anonymous survey in question and chosen himself as the pro he would be least likely to help in this fictional car-park dust-up.Watson deserves some credit for dealing head-on with the awkward subject of his own unpopularity among his fellow pros. Plus, as he says, he is trying to get better every day.Yet seasoned Watson observers will note we have been here many times before with the 36-year-old Floridian.While at the University of Georgia, he was left off the college golf team for a year after disagreements with his coach and teammates. This, despite his talent. More recently, he alienated an entire nation, dismissing France's cultural heritage in a way only a man called Bubba could.After he missed the cut at the 2011 French Open, he said: "I don't know the names of all the things, the big tower, Eiffel Tower, an arch [Arc de Triomphe], whatever I rode around in a circle. And then what's that? - it starts with an 'L' - Louvre, something like that.''That particular diatribe was quickly followed by a heartfelt apology.The galleries here at Augusta National love him, too, and not just in the traditional "America loves a winner" way. He has won two Masters titles but even more endearing than that is the way in which he has won - with the kind of panache and style not seen in these parts since Seve Ballesteros stalked the fairways.He plays golf at a level an Ordinary Joe can only dream about, but he does so with a homespun swing that could be their own. And the folks love that. Indeed, putting Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson aside, it could be argued that Watson will be the most popular figure with the galleries this week.The great Ballesteros, twice a winner here like Watson, could not have put it better himself. Now if only the American can find an even measure of the Spaniard's charisma and personality then he, too, could elevate himself in the pantheon of complete champions. ..