BEST BETS: 2026 WM Phoenix Open Picks, Odds & Live Chat | The Early Wedge
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
JOIN THE EARLY WEDGE ONE AND DONE ON SPLASH SPORTS: https://www.splashsports.com/wedge
No purchase necessary. Open to legal U.S. residents, 18+, excluding residents of Louisiana and Nevada. Enter by 2/5/26 at 7 am ET. Void where prohibited. http://legal.splashsports.com/promotion-terms/early-wedge-golf-fantasy-1-done-contest-official-rules
Eric Cohen is joined by SportsLine experts Sia Nejad, Patrick McDonald and Jason Sobel to dish out best bets and golf picks for the 2026 Farmers Insurance Open.
(0:00) Intro + Sia is back and Brooks was impressive
(4:30) Sign up for the Splash One & Done!
(5:15) Storylines
(11:30) First Round Leaders
(19:35) Tournament Matchups
(27:20) Finishing Positions
(35:50) Do Not Bet list casualty + Tournament Outrights
(42:30) Longshots & Parlays
(47:30) One & Done
🎙ABOUT THE SHOW
Get your daily bets here FIRST! The No. 1 sports betting show and podcast—powered by SportsLine + CBS Sports—delivers the day's best bets in a fast-paced, fun environment, first thing in the morning. Starting at 10 a.m. ET every weekday, The Early Edge goes live on YouTube, breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, college football, NBA, MLB, NHL, college basketball, soccer, and more! The Early Edge is here to talk sports betting for everyone—from first-time bettors to sharps, and everyone in between. From point spreads to totals, player props to parlays, and so much more, we're here to win. Together.
🎧 LISTEN
• Stream and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3URc49a
• Download and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Apple: https://apple.co/4hLfVhP
• Other CBS Sports podcasts: https://cbssports.com/podcast
🎥 WATCH
• Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SportsLine
• Watch CBS Sports HQ: https://cbssports.com/live
• Watch CBS Sports Network on your TV or the CBS Sports App with your cable provider
📱FOLLOW
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/SportsLine
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportsline
• TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@sportsline
📖 READ
• More betting news: https://www.sportsline.com/
🛍️MERCH
• Shop our merch: https://www.paramountshop.com/collections/the-early-edge
💵BETTING
Head to https://www.sportsline.com to find best bets, picks and props. Any league. Any game. Any time. Both from the sharpest sports bettors in the business as well as the SportsLine Advanced Model, where we simulate each game 10,000 times and provide projected scores, graded bets, plus player prop projections.
If you like it, use promo code EARLY to get your first 30 days FREE!
#SportsBetting #Gambling #Betting #PGATour #EarlyWedge #GolfPicks #WMPhoenixOpen #WMPO #PhoenixOpenPicks
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Early Wedge Tuesday Best Bed Show. I'm your host, EC, otherwise known as Eric Cohen. |
| 0:16.4 | Glad to have you guys here. It is my hometown event. It is going to be a show this weekend. I don't know |
| 0:22.8 | what adjective you want to use to describe it, but we will have plenty of stories and plenty of |
| 0:27.9 | picks. I was out at TPC Scottsdale yesterday and so much to discuss. But first, let's welcome |
| 0:33.8 | in the crew. We have the great Patrick McDonald,cdonald the great jason sobel and welcome |
| 0:39.0 | back seeing ajad we missed you last week uh do you want to take a second to you know give yourself some props |
| 0:46.2 | for hitting that share of pearson cootie at the american express for an frl it's old news it was two |
| 0:53.4 | years ago and it was a split pot i mean mean, it was nice. I'll tell you what. If I'm going to pet myself on the back, I'll tell you that's not the first time I've hit a Pearson Cootty first round leader. It's a second time. Two summers ago, I hit him in a first round leader market. I think it's 66 to one. Stoned it out. Well, well done. I mean, a lot of people haven't heard of Pearson Cootie, |
| 1:11.4 | but this guy is playing lights out, what, three straight top 20s. Patrick, going to this weekend. |
| 1:16.7 | Let's talk about Brooks Kebka. He's won twice here last week. Was he better or worse than you |
| 1:21.9 | expected? A lot better, honestly. I think everyone's talking about the putting and how poor it was not really |
| 1:29.2 | a surprise there with Brooks never really. He's never really taken to Poeana Greens being a |
| 1:35.6 | Florida guy, but Tita Green, it was super sharp. He made some good internment adjustments. He talked |
| 1:40.4 | about his ball position on Thursday being too far back. That's why he missed every single fairway to the right. |
| 1:45.4 | It seemed like fixed that. |
| 1:47.4 | And then the long iron play, mid-iron play. |
| 1:50.0 | And the short game in particular was really tight, which I was not expecting from Kepka, |
| 1:55.2 | not only long time since he's been on the PGA tour, |
| 1:58.0 | just long time playing competitive golf. |
| 1:59.6 | So I think there's a lot of positive signs. And I wouldn't be shocked if he's just on the PGA tour, just long time playing competitive golf. So I think there's a lot |
| 2:01.0 | of positive signs. And I want to be shocked if he's just like super popular in everything this week. |
| 2:07.1 | Sobel, I believe you, did you write him up in your bed MGM column? Did I see that correctly? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.