BEST BETS: 2026 Arnold Palmer Invitational Picks, Odds, One & Done | The Early Wedge
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Eric Cohen is joined by SportsLine experts Sia Nejad, Patrick McDonald and Jason Sobel to dish out their best bets for the 2026 Arnold Palmer Invitational. The crew also hits on this week's Puerto Rico Open.
(2:00) Intro, recapping a 110-1 FRL hit last week
(8:31) Storylines this Week
(12:15) First Round Leaders
(21:23) Tournament Matchups and some March Madness thoughts
(32:07) Finishing Positions
(38:23) EC’s Do Not Bet List nearly takes another hit
(40:35) Outrights
(46:27) Puerto Rico Open Outrights
(49:46) Longshots & Parlays
(54:47) One and Done
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Early Wedge Tuesday Best Bet Show. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm your host, Eric Cohen, on last week's show. |
| 0:16.4 | I all but guaranteed that we were going to have a big week on this show, and two of our panelists delivered. |
| 0:54.4 | I mean, are we surprised? Not at all. Let's bring them in. And let's celebrate Austin Smotherman 110 to 1. Jason Sobel, you had it. See you and Ajad, you had it. Patrick, you had Cam Davis at 250 to 1. He didn't get there. Nonetheless, Sobel, we're going to start with you because also in your bed-MGM column, you gave out Nico Ettervaria. Yeah, it was good week. Hello, guys. Good to be with everybody. I'm going to apologize right off the top. My internet's a little laggy. It started doing a Shane Lowry right now. It got me all the way there. Too soon. |
| 1:09.9 | Any cut out right there. That's incredible. And now it's making double boat. I'm sorry. Sorry, Shane. He's probably watching right now. Yeah, it was a good week. It was a really good week. At Chavaria. We had Lowry for a top 10 in the preview that we wrote. And yeah, of course, Smotherman. And so, yeah, it was nice week. |
| 1:11.0 | We'll try to keep going this week. |
| 1:12.1 | See ya. |
| 1:13.3 | Take your victory lap. |
| 1:11.0 | You have been awesome with FRO. and yeah, of course, Smotherman. So, yeah, it was a nice week. We'll try to keep going this week. |
| 1:28.4 | See ya. Take your victory lap. You have been awesome with FRLs. There's nobody that I know who's better. And look at this one, 110 to 1. Congrats. What a cool graphic. Yeah, you know, you know what's cool is when we were filling in our picks last week, You know, I didn't expect anybody else to have Austin Smotherman. And I got to give Jason his flowers because he was the first one to put him in there in our in our little like show sheet. And I texted him right away and I said, Jason, there's no way both of us are on Austin Smotherman. This is awesome. And then next thing you know i'm texting him saying hey you think this is |
| 1:44.1 | going to hold when he gets to nine under it was really cool i will say i've hit three of the first seven |
| 1:48.8 | tournaments i've hit three first round leaders however the first two were shares like one of them was a |
| 1:53.7 | rory share one of them was a pierce and cootie uh two-way split this one felt really good because jason |
| 1:59.1 | and i and all of the followers of the early |
| 2:01.1 | wedge didn't have to share it with anyone. Patrick, a few people in the chat are wondering |
| 2:06.3 | if Shane Lowry is going on the No Bet list. That means they haven't been paying attention. |
| 2:10.0 | Shane Lowry, the No Bet list should be named after Shane Lowry. What did you make of that |
| 2:15.2 | debacle on Sunday afternoon? Might have to be dubbed the Lowry list now. |
| 2:20.5 | I thought of it. |
| 2:21.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:21.6 | Yeah. |
| 2:21.8 | I think it could be worthy. |
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