Pressure is on Rory McIlroy, not me, says Bubba Watson in lead-up to Masters
Florida star is quite content with having won two green jackets
Masters champion Bubba Watson could join elite company with a successful title defence at Augusta National next month but said world number one golfer Rory McIlroy would face more pressure at the year's first major.
Watson, 36, will be gunning to join Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo and Tiger Woods as the only players to win consecutive green jackets and could join the likes of Sam Snead and Gary Player by becoming the sixth three-times Masters winner.
Nicklaus holds the record with six US Masters titles.
I don't have any pressure. I've already got two jackets. Obviously, I think he [McIlroy] would have more pressure than me
"I don't have any pressure," Watson, who also won at Augusta in 2012, said. "I've already got two jackets.
"Obviously, I think he [McIlroy] would have more pressure than me, because look at the talent he has and the records he could beat when he gets older."
McIlroy, 25, will arrive at the fabled golf course seeking a Masters crown to complete a career grand slam.
Victory for the Northern Irishman would make him the seventh career grand slam winner following Woods, Nicklaus, Player, Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen.