Golf DFS Preview - 2025 Rocket Classic Picks, Strategy | The Early Wedge

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Sia Nejad and Mike McClure preview the 2025 Rocket Classic from a DFS perspective with picks, strategy and more for Detroit Golf Club. (0:00) Intro + a full field, no cut event to tackle this week (2:30) Course Breakdown: Detroit Golf Club (5:45) 10k+ | “I don’t want to play any of these guys” (11:08) 9k | There are three main guys in this range (18:20) 8k | Past champions and close calls all over the place…but we aren’t playing them (25:00) 7k | Is the lower 7k the place to be? Sia and Mike think yes (36:40) 6k | Are we getting to this range this week? #SportsBetting #Gambling #Betting #DraftKings #FantasySports #FantasyGolf #PGATour #PGADFS #RocketClassic #RocketMortgageClassic #EarlyWedge #EarlyWedge #golf 🎥 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 ▶︎ CFB Picks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2OMV9N3pRUJGnxdCKAbhlraxwPCrm0g6 🎧 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 📱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/ 🛍️SUPPORT • Shop our merch: https://www.paramountshop.com/collections/the-early-edge 💵BETTING Looking for a specific game we haven’t covered? Head to https://www.sportsline.com, where you can always 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! 🎙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. 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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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:11.9	Welcome to the Early Wedge.
0:13.7	My name is Cianajan.
0:14.9	And today I am joined by Mike McClure.
0:17.1	Of course, Rick Gaman, usually hosting.
0:18.8	He is traveling back from Florida.
0:25.3	We'll be with us the rest of the week. Certainly for the live chat on Wednesday. Mike,
0:32.6	how you doing, my friend? I am great. See ya. Ready for another great week of DFS. A big contrast to the two weeks that we kind of had, both in field size, strength of the field, difficulty of the golf course.
0:39.9	Looking forward to it, though, I think there's a lot of interesting players in this.
0:44.0	And I think there will be some very interesting ownership angles to play here, as I think there will be a few players that will become extremely popular in this field.
0:53.4	Yeah, I'm really excited to actually
0:55.8	to address that because I agree with you and, you know, we'll have to see. We're going to talk about
1:02.4	all of those names during this show, but certainly during the live chat, we will talk about
1:06.8	some of those names where we're actually seeing the ownership as it kind of goes towards lock.
1:12.9	All right, well, let's talk about the course we're at, Mike.
1:15.5	You talked about how the contrast with this course versus maybe the last few weeks,
1:20.4	or at least most of the last few weeks.
1:21.9	We've got a very easy setup here.
1:25.2	I mean, not a lot of hazards.
1:27.0	You know, off the T's, you're not going to have a lot of
1:31.2	danger out there. I think a lot of guys are just going to be focused on distance. Others focused on
1:36.5	off the T and others, obviously, on both of those, whether it be total driving or just off the T or
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