Four-Ball: Will John Daly make splash on PGA Tour Champions?

— -- John Daly makes his PGA Tour Champions debut this week at the Insperity Invitational. What's in store for this next chapter in the two-time major winner's career?

Our panel goes headfirst into all things JD in this week's edition of Monday Four-Ball.

1. What's more likely: Daly is a serious competitor for titles or he's a ceremonial golfer on the 50-and-over circuit?

SportsCenter anchor Jonathan Coachman: I really believe Daly has been waiting for his day. And to really make your mark on the PGA Tour Champions, you have to make your money in the first five years. I think he is going to dominate certain weeks and become a huge draw and just what the tour needed. He hasn't lost much, if any, of his power, and he is still as approachable as ever. The big question will he be, is he committed enough to challenge for the Charles Schwab Cup? That I don't believe will happen.

SportsCenter anchor Matt Barrie: Daly is a little bit of both. He can absolutely win titles on the old-man circuit. But at the same time, Daly will give those tournaments more attention because of his name, story and antics.

ESPN.com senior golf analyst Michael Collins: Daly is going to be a serious competitor on the PGA Tour Champions. I expect him to have two wins by the end of this season. It won't be walk in the park, but Daly's length will definitely give him an advantage, and he still has amazing touch around the greens.

ESPN.com senior golf writer Bob Harig: He'll be a serious competitor, but that is said with an addendum. It really depends on him. He says he wants to compete, and if he puts in the work, he most certainly can do that. Daly still hits it a long way, and he'll have an advantage over the entire field. But the players on the PGA Tour Champions work at their games. They are on the range every week before tournaments and after their rounds. The vibe might be less intense than on the regular tour, but that doesn't mean these guys don't put in the effort. Daly will struggle if he doesn't do that.

ESPN.com senior golf writer Jason Sobel: I think he's going to compete, and I think at some point this year he'll win. His length will be an even more decided advantage than against the flat-bellies, and his short game has always been smoother than most people realize. The biggest factor might be that he's no longer competing against guys who are grinding for paycheck and status; in a more relaxed vibe, he might thrive against the competition.

2. Should Daly be in the World Golf Hall of Fame?

Coachman: No. To me, a Hall of Famer first and foremost has to have sustained excellence, winning for many years and also performing well in the majors. In fact, I fully support the idea that you have to have a major in order to be inducted into the Hall. I know that not everyone in every Hall of Fame is a choirboy, but players should have to behave like people the Hall of Fame will want to have in its walls. And there have been a lot of times Daly has not acted like a Hall of Famer. In golf, how you behave should factor in. Now, on the other hand, he would definitely be voted into the Fans' Hall of Fame.

Barrie: Daly is an interesting argument when it comes to the Hall of Fame. He has two major championships, but there's not much else after that. There are pros who would trade their multiple wins for one major championship, let alone two. I say yes, he's a Hall of Famer because he's a two-time major champion.

Collins: Yes. The World Golf Hall of Fame is not just about numbers and golfers. It's about the people who had the greatest impact on the game itself. Love him or hate him, Daly had an impact on the game socially that very few ever will.

Harig: No, it shouldn't even be a debate. Five wins is not a Hall of Fame career, even if two of them are majors. There is not even a hint of sustained consistency in his career.

Sobel: Two major titles is usually a pretty good benchmark, but Daly remains the rare anomaly who won those and didn't win much else. Even so, his background, his story and his popularity should all be beneficial factors when considering his candidacy, though ultimately none will be enough to get him in.

3. What's your favorite Daly story?

Coachman: It would be going all the way back to his first major championship. To be a nobody and a ninth alternate, to be a person who took advantage of a situation and in a matter of four days became a phenomenon -- I was in college at the time, and to get college kids to stop their weekend and watch a dude they did not know try and win this huge golf tournament? That shows how much fun Daly instantly was to watch.

Barrie: My favorite John Daly story is from 2015, when Jonathan Coachman and I were in Augusta for The Masters. Being Coach, he wanted to eat at the Augusta Hooters. As we were walking to the door, we see this big RV and a table filled with the loudest-colored golf apparel you could imagine. And selling his own apparel line, with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, was none other than John Daly.

Collins: My favorite memory with Daly was at a party thrown by a celebrity one Tuesday night. Watching how many people wanted to just sit and have a drink with him was not the impressive part. It was the time he took to acknowledge each person, sometimes with a toast, that left an impression on me. Driving him back to his RV while he screamed, "I love you, Li'l Hootie!" (using my caddie nickname) was pretty hilarious, too.

Harig: At the 2008 PODS (now Valspar) Championship, Daly stopped in a Hooters hospitality tent during a rain delay and emerged when play resumed with then-Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden as his caddie, which made somewhat of a mockery of the situation. Who does something like that? John Daly, of course.

Sobel: No doubt the best stories are those that remain untold. The best of those to make headlines, though, has to be the 1991 PGA Championship, when he went from unknown ninth alternate to champion in less than a week. That was the week his legend really grew.

4. Which victory was Daly's best?

Coachman: His 1995 win at The Open. The 1991 PGA Championship was a complete surprise, but the 1995 Open solidified his talent as a world-class player. No one, and I mean no one, lucks into two separate major wins without being a world-class player. I think we all wished after this victory that he could really get serious about his game and life because we all would have absolutely jumped on for the ride. Not everyone can handle success and the ride that comes along with it.

Barrie: His best victory was easily the 1991 PGA Championship. Overnight, he went from Arkansas guy with a mullet to major champion Arkansas guy with a mullet. After that, the Daly world in golf was born.

Collins: Winning the 1995 Open at St. Andrews validated his stature as a great golfer, not just someone who could hit it a long way. It was the second major of his career, which I believe is harder to win than the first. Since 1970, seven men have won the nine Opens held at the home of golf: Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods each did it twice. Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo, Louis Oosthuizen, Zach Johnson and Daly are the others.

Harig: His first one. Nothing tops the 1991 PGA Championship. Nobody knew Daly at the time, and he didn't know the Crooked Stick course, showing up as an alternate and basically taking over the event on his way to a victory that transcended golf. His victory at St. Andrews four years later was stunning, but it was the first one that put him on the map and set up his career.

Sobel: Here are the winners of The Open at St. Andrews since World War II: Sam Snead, Peter Thomson, Bobby Locke, Kel Nagle, Tony Lema, Jack Nicklaus (twice), Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo, Tiger Woods (twice), Louis Oosthuizen, Zach Johnson -- and Daly, whose victory in 1995 might have been nearly as improbable as his first major title, considering the location and the names on that list of winners.