Kansas City, Mo ? Golfing great Tom Watson isn’t advising Roy Williams to give up his day job and apply for admission to the Senior PGA Tour.

Still, Kansas City links legend Watson, who has won eight majors and 34 overall PGA Tour titles, likes the Kansas University basketball coach’s golf game a lot.

“He is definitely a pressure player. Roy Williams he’s got guts,” a happy Watson said after he and Williams blanked the team of Senior Tour player Ed Dougherty and Kansas City Royals baseball Hall of Famer George Brett, $16,000 to $0, in Tuesday’s TD Waterhouse Celebrity Skins Game at Tiffany Greens Golf Club.

Although he didn’t match last year’s performance where he sank five long birdie putts to propel him and Watson to victory, Williams did convert a 10-footer for birdie on No. 1 to halve the hole.

Williams also blasted a perfect 250-yard drive on the par-4, 378-yard No. 17 hole a hole that Watson and Williams parred and Brett and Dougherty bogeyed, giving the W&W boys a profit of $12,000 on the first hole in which a skin was awarded.

The two teams had tied the first seven holes in an alternate-shot format.

“Roy made a putt on the first hole that started us off,” Watson said, “then he hit the shot of the day with his tee ball on 17. He crunched it, dead flush. It gave me the opportunity to get the ball on the green. Roy made a good putt on 16, too.”

Williams he and Brett both sculled shots out of a fairway trap on 16 dropped a 5-foot birdie putt on that hole to assure a tie heading into the lucrative 17th.

“Roy didn’t make a lot of putts,” Brett said. “We had a chance, but Roy hit it in the fairway on 17 and I didn’t. That was the difference right there.”

That’s because Dougherty followed Brett’s drive into the 17th hole rough with an iron into the sand. Watson, meanwhile, plunked shot No. 2 within 17 feet. Williams stroked a putt within a foot with tap in for par. Brett’s 6-footer for par following a nice sand shot by Dougherty skipped a foot and a half past the hole.

“It’s a good feeling knowing with Watson no matter how bad you hit it, Tom will bail you out,” KU’s Williams said of his partner, who as usual, was masterful with his fairway irons.

“I didn’t strike it very well,” Williams assessed. “Last year three or four days before (Skins Game) I played about 140 holes in three days. I was getting ready for this.

“This year the recruiting period was extended. Last week I was in nine states (recruiting). I’ve played once in the last 10 days and three rounds the whole year.

“I can use that as an excuse, but the bottom line is I didn’t hit it very well,” Williams added.

Williams said he “loved” the experience competing in the Skins Game for a second time.

“I love competing with Tom and George. I’d never met Ed until today. He was fun playing with, too,” Williams said.

He said he wasn’t nervous playing before 3,000 or so fans on a windy, drizzly day.

“I never looked at it like that, like there’s pressure,” Williams said. “When I’m getting ready to hit the shot, I don’t feel pressure or stress. I try to go through the routine of hitting the ball.

“I try to concentrate on the shot. The only time I feel pressure is I hit a little half-shank (out of bunker on 16) and think, ‘Big dummy, you looked about as bad as you can look out there.”’

Williams and Watson won a final $4,000 on the 18th hole. Both teams parred, then all four players put their golf balls in a bunker for a tiebreaking closest to the pin competition.

Watson won, chipping within two feet. Dougherty had chipped within six feet; Brett and Williams about 10 feet.

“I wanted to have a long drive contest or go heads or tails,” quipped Brett, known for his length off the tee.

Instead, the chipping contest was ordered.

“I told George I’d give $4,000 just to not hit it,” Williams joked. “I thought I might kill somebody across the green (with errant chip).”

Each of the player’s charities were awarded $1,000 just for showing up, meaning Williams and Watson won $18,000 apiece to split and Dougherty and Brett $2,000. Williams was playing for Big Brothers and Sisters of Douglas County; Brett for ALS Foundation; Watson for Children’s Mercy Hospital and Dougherty for the Junior Golf Foundation.