Golf DFS Preview - 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship Picks, Strategy | The Early Wedge

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Sia Nejad and Mike McClure preview the 2025 FedEx St. Jude Championship from a DFS perspective with picks, strategy and more. (0:00) Intro + a twosome on today’s show (2:00) How to approach a 70-player field & a no cut event + TPC Southwind breakdown (8:00) 10k+ | Scottie Scheffler clocks in at $13,000 - “he’s going to be extremely popular” (13:40) 9k | “I feel like ___ has less questions than most” (21:30) 8k | A popular lineup start: Scottie Scheffler and this 8k golfer (32:30) 7k | We’re not especially inspired by this range (40:00) 6k | Where to go if you’re playing stars and scrubs #SportsBetting #Gambling #Betting #DraftKings #FantasySports #FantasyGolf #PGATour #PGADFS #FedExStJudeChampinship #FedExCupPlayoffs #EarlyWedge #golf 🎙ABOUT THE SHOW Welcome to The Early Edge! The No. 1 daily sports betting show and podcast powered by SportsLine + CBS Sports. If you’re looking for today’s best bets, in 20 minutes or less, we’re the show for you. Every morning at 10am ET The Early Edge is live breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, College Football, NBA, MLB, NHL, College Basketball, Soccer and more! No hot takes, The Early Edge is here to talk sports betting for both the first time bettor or sports book sharp and everyone in between. From spread betting to totals, player props to parlays and so much more, The Early Edge is 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! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.2	What is up, everyone? Welcome to the Early Wedge. My name is Sienajan. Today, it's just me and Mike McClure as Rick is traveling to this event. Of course, we are talking about the first playoff event, theex st jude championship mike mcclore i'm
1:29.3	starting to like what i'm seeing from a pricing and from a betting standpoint how you feel in going
1:35.8	into this tournament uh feeling good uh i you know look it's we're back to a no cut event uh it's it's a
1:43.4	major championship, right?
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