Pressure is everywhere at Augusta National, but in Bubba Watson's viewpoint, he won't feel it as much as Rory McIlroy might.
"I don't have any pressure; I've already got two (green) jackets," Watson said with a laugh during the annual Masters champion's conference call.
What trumps Watson's bid to become just the ninth player to win three Masters, at least so far as scrutiny goes, is McIlroy's attempt to complete the career Grand Slam. At 25, the world No. 1 from Northern Ireland already owns two PGA wins, plus one each in the Open Championship and U.S. Open, so he needs just a green jacket to get in line with a Who's Who of the game's greatest.
Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods are the only players to win all four of the major championships.
"If it was the other way around, all the pressure would be on me, because who doesn't want to win a Grand Slam?" Watson said.
But Watson, the 2012 and 2014 winner, said he wouldn't even call it pressure that McIlroy faces. "He's so young, he's going to have year after year after year to try and do this. So I don't see it as pressure, (though) obviously him personally, he's going to put pressure on himself," Watson said.
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