Englishman Willett vented his anger after his second shot from beyond the green trickled all the way across the putting surface and left the preacher's son facing a bogey or worse.
"Of anyone you should know the rules," Willett shouted loudly at the official, who was sitting about 60 yards away in a golf cart, outside the gallery ropes.
Willett was still visibly angry as he left the green after salvaging a bogey, though he had calmed down by time he spoke to reporters about 30 minutes later.
He said his ire had been raised because the official had been in his line-of-sight as he was preparing to play his shot.
"We were being timed (for slow play), which I can appreciate," Willett said after carding a one-under 71 at Augusta National.
"It's a little bit tricky out here, so it takes a little bit of time, but you'd like to think the referee that's timing you knows exactly where to put his buggy and where not to put his buggy."
Willett, 27, a two-time European Tour winner, is playing in his first Masters.
(Ediitng by Mark Lamport-Stokes)
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