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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

BEST BETS: 2026 Genesis Scottish Open Picks, Odds, One & Done | The Early Wedge

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, SportsLine

Sports, Football

4.5779 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2026

⏱️ 69 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 Scottish Open. Plus, outrights for this week’s ISCO Championship.

(2:00) Intro + Ben Kohles’ collapse at the John Deere Classic

(7:13) Storylines this Week

(12:03) First Round Leaders

(16:37) Tournament Matchups

(23:50) Finishing Positions

(30:25) World Cup thoughts

(34:46) EC’s Do Not Bet List in danger this week?

(35:54) Outrights

(44:46) ISCO Championship picks

(50:36) Longshots & Parlays

(57:55) One & Done

(1:04:54) Best Bets for the Scottish Open

(1:08:09) Final thoughts + First clicks for The Open

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Early Wedge Best Bed Show. I am your host, EC. Let me just say this off the bat. If you had Egypt today, if you had Columbia today, or if you had Ben Coles last week, my condolences. All right, let's bring in the stars of the show. We'll talk more about that. I can't believe anybody to pick Ben Coles after what we saw. I mean, that was the ultimate. That is like no bet list. That's what the no bet list is made up. We have C, we have Patrick, we have Sobel. Sobel, I want to give you props,

0:37.9

even though I don't know if you talked about it on the show, but you and I were texting last week and you gave out Patty Harrington Stewart Sink one to finish at the U.S. Senior Open at 75 to 1. You gave that to me and I played it stupidly in a parlay. But I mean, that's a heck of a 75 to 1. How'd you come up with that? I was literally just looking around the book that I use, and it came up the exactives for the US Senior Open. I only give out losers on the show, but I give out winners when people text me. So I guess all the viewers out there just text me. I'll give you a good play boy see yeah you were really close last week you had

1:12.4

suber and he was in the mix if you had ben coles would you and i i don't want to spoil later in the show

1:20.1

is ben cole's no bet list worthy after that i mean that's a choke yeah it's pretty much a choke i wouldn't

1:27.3

say it's no bet list worthy though though. I mean, I felt like he thought on 18 he had to kind of go for it, even though he absolutely didn't have to. First of all, two things. One is, you don't put a ridiculous parlay within another parlay. He already gave you the one-two parlay, which was already super long odds. I don't know why you're putting that along. I had coven, coven to make the cut with that. And we were all on coven on the show last week. That's actually-stress that itch a little more. Yes. It's reasonable, but still completely unreasonable. Listen, Ben Cole, so I was thinking after he choked, would I rather be the guy with the Jackson Super Ticket, who basically, he kind of took himself out of it immediately. He crawled back in on the back nine, but then kind of took himself out again on some of the easier holes. Would I rather be, you know, who I was, the Jackson Super ticket holder, or would I rather be the Ben Coles guy that got it to 18? I think the universal answer is I'd rather be the Jackson Super guy, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's like, would you rather be a U.S. fan or an Egyptian fan, right? Yeah. How they lost. Exactly. That's a great point, Patrick. By the way, is there it, Patrick, is there anyone who locks into more wins than Chris Godderup?

2:38.2

I mean, how they lost exactly that's a great point Patrick uh it by the way is there Patrick is there

2:35.4

anyone who locks into more wins than Chris Goderup I mean oh look at well no I mean hold on

2:41.3

he comes back he has he had a great final round at the Phoenix Open he had a great final round here

2:46.6

but he also benefited from two guys absolutely gagging on the 70 second hole both times. Hadecki made a bogey that happens, and then he buried him in the playoff, first whole birdie. Well, Hadecki also went in the water. So, I mean, it was over. He didn't even have. He could have a bogey. He still would have been. I mean, he wasn't going to make that. I will say the Ben Cole's no bet list. He doesn't have the stature, to be honest. Correct. Right. That's why he's not included. He's starting to win a little bit, but that's on a different. Is that the biggest choke? Would you put Shane Lowry at the cognizant or Ben Coles last week, which is the bigger choke, Sobel?

3:40.8

Easily Shane Lowry. He's a major champion. He's a world-class player. He did it twice, by the way. Coles at one bad shot into the water and made a bogey a few holes earlier. But Lowry did it twice, not just once. Lowry's a bigger joke. See ya. Middle of the fairway, 150 out. All you got to do is just avoid.

3:42.5

Don't go left.

3:44.6

I mean, to me,

3:46.5

and I would throw Hideki Matsiyama at the Phoenix

3:48.4

Open in the choke list. Like if we're talking about

3:50.6

2026 chokes,

3:52.7

Matsuyama Lowry and

3:54.5

Coles, is there anyone that we need to, that I

3:56.4

failed to mention anybody.

3:57.6

I think he was battling his swing all day. He was like barely getting it to the finish line.

4:03.4

I think he had like two fairways the entire final round. I think, I think Lowry has the

4:10.4

crown this season, probably last season for like the last handful of years.

4:14.9

That was amongst the worst.

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