BEST BETS: 2026 Genesis 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
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 61 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 Genesis Invitational.
(2:00) Storylines we’re following
(10:55) First Round Leaders
(18:11) Tournament Matchups
(27:14) Finishing Positions
(38:45) EC’s Do Not Bet List takes another hit
(42:02) Outrights
(50:03) Long Shot Parlays; who is Pajaree Anannarukarn?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Early Wedge Tuesday Best Bed Show. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm your host, Eric Cohen. |
| 0:14.9 | Glad to have you here. |
| 0:15.9 | It is our sixth show of the year. |
| 0:18.2 | And it is a big one this week, genesis invitational riviera so let us |
| 0:22.6 | bring in the stars of the show we have so many picks for you on this show and whatever other |
| 0:26.4 | other fun we have jason sobel's here see and ajad's here patrick mcdonald's here all right |
| 0:33.0 | patrick first of all you were talking before the show virginia tech is not a bubble team. I know this is a golf show. They're 58th in the net rankings. It's like saying Harris English has got to win. How many teams are in the tournament? Yeah, but you got a 32 conference champion. How many teams are in the tournament? No, I don't give you that. How many? You're expanding it, right? I can i can't keep it's like a hundred twenty eight right |
| 0:54.5 | well it said 68 technically so top 68 teams and what are what are they in that 508 but you got |
| 1:00.8 | so many the two automatic bids lawyer so we have 72 in the talking in pom eC you know who uh invented kenpom |
| 1:10.2 | where he went to school? Virginia Tech. |
| 1:16.2 | I'm sure. I'm sure we'll have more NCAA basketball debates as we go along here. |
| 1:22.6 | But this is a golf show. There are only 72 players in this week's field. |
| 1:27.3 | This, for what we've |
| 1:29.2 | discussed, this might be the last time we see the Genesis Invitational in February for a while. |
| 1:34.6 | Sobel, do you have any updates on that? Do we know anything about the schedule yet? Have you heard |
| 1:38.1 | anything? We don't, but whether there's smoke, there's fire. And I would not be surprised if there's |
| 1:42.9 | an announcement, oh, let's say |
| 1:45.0 | mid-March in Panovidra Beach, where they announce what the schedule is going to look like for |
| 1:51.3 | 27 and Pebble Beach and Riviera are hosting events later in the year instead of this time |
| 1:58.3 | here. And look, I'm all for it. I think having playoff |
| 2:01.2 | events on the West Coast. Let's be serious about what's happening here. Playoff events on the West Coast and the weeks before football starts, yes, who says no? Right. Prime Time Golf. We all love it. All right. Let's get to storylines. We have a lot to hit on this week. Thanks to all of you in the chat already you're starting up we will take questions along the way but we're going to start |
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