BEST BETS: 2026 Travelers Championship Picks, Odds, One & Done | The Early Wedge
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, SportsLine
4.5 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2026
⏱️ 67 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 Travelers Championship.
(2:00) Intro + Thoughts on crowd rooting against Wyndham Clark at U.S. Open
(7:28) Assessing the PGA Tour’s format changes coming in 2028
(14:33) Storylines this Week
(17:09) First Round Leaders
(24:21) Tournament Matchups
(30:14) Finishing Positions
(36:08) EC’s Do Not Bet List + Outrights
(45:09) Pro Golfer or World Cup player? We put EC on the hot seat
(53:51) Longshots & Parlays
(1:00:11) One & Done
(1:04:54) Best Bets
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Early Wedge Tuesday Best Bed Show. I am your host, D.C. It is great to have you with us. |
| 0:16.3 | We have a special segment in store tonight. Get ready. I'm going to be put on the spot. Thanks to |
| 0:22.6 | one Jason Sobel and the crew. But at first, there's some news today from the PGA Tour. So let's |
| 0:28.1 | bring in the stars of the show. We have Sobel. We have Cia. We have Patrick back from Shinnecock. |
| 0:32.8 | And before we get into the news of the day, Patrick, you are out there on site. Do you think that the fans on Long |
| 0:40.2 | Island were unfair to Wyndham Clark? It was a disgrace, EC. Something that should never be seen |
| 0:48.8 | at a golf tournament. This is a golf tournament we're talking about. This isn't a sport. This isn't like an NFL |
| 0:55.3 | game, a basketball game, a UFC fight. It's golf we're talking about. It was it was unbecoming of the |
| 1:05.0 | Long Island crowd. I will say, you know, social media gave it to them good this week. First three days, they can't do |
| 1:12.1 | anything right because none of them are at the golf tournament. Then lo and behold, they come to |
| 1:15.6 | the golf tournament and everyone's mad at them now. I think there are a few bad actors, but it wasn't |
| 1:23.6 | great. Sobel, there have been, you're a New York guy by birth. |
| 1:28.3 | And there have been thoughts that, hey, Beth Page is getting the PGA Championship in |
| 1:33.3 | 2033. |
| 1:34.3 | It should be taken away because the New York fans were so unbecoming at the Rider Cup the other |
| 1:39.3 | year and then what we saw this past weekend. |
| 1:41.3 | All right, as the native New York or native Long Islander, in fact, first of all, what do you expect? We're loud. We're going to yell stuff. I mean, this is just what we do. Secondly, I don't know how much is it. I don't understand why people are, there's so much backlash against Wyndham Clark. First of all, because he threw temper tantrums a couple times at major championships last year. |
| 2:36.2 | Quite honestly, I would have thought that would make him relatable to the guy that goes out on a Sunday morning to the local muni and, you know, throws his club in the pond when he makes a triple boge. Like, I would think people would actually gravitate towards him a little bit. I think part of this was, hey, you know what? He's leading by a bunch. I want to see some drama at my U.S. Open on a Sunday afternoon, so I'm going to root against him just to have Scotty and some of the other guys get a little bit closer. But I don't know. I thought it was ridiculous. I interviewed Wyndham Clark before the tournament started. He was apologetic and embarrassed about what happened at Okubot last year. He's made amends for it. I think it's silly that everyone's rooting against him. But honestly, it's just a, it's just |
| 2:41.8 | a few that are doing this. And it leaves guys like us talking about it for years afterwards. |
| 2:47.9 | But no, we're not taking away events. Take it away. Take it away. |
| 2:51.8 | Take it away. Take it away. See ya. As the resident attorney and on this show, the judge in Weatherman, |
| 2:59.6 | I do ask you, is there precedent for the PGA tour, for the, you know, Gulf America, |
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