Golf DFS Preview - 2025 Scottish Open Picks, Strategy | The Early Wedge

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Rick Gehman, Sia Nejad and Mike McClure preview the 2025 Genesis Scottish Open from a DFS perspective with picks, strategy and more for the Renaissance Club. (0:00) Intro + a very successful week at the John Deere (3:00) Course Breakdown: The Renaissance Club (9:00) 10k+ | Scottie Scheffler and a pair of past champions (14:05) 9k | A Who’s Who of PGA Tour stars - could you start lineups here? (17:00) 8k | Corey Conners injury update + 10 more names in this range (26:15) 7k | Let’s go searching for some diamonds in the rough among these 43 golfers (34:30) 6k | Let’s take a walk down obscure DPWT lane #SportsBetting #Gambling #Betting #DraftKings #FantasySports #FantasyGolf #PGATour #PGADFS #ScottishOpen #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	This episode of the Early Wedge is presented by Five Hour Energy and their new transfusion flavor.
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0:27.3	Welcome in. It's the Early Wedge. I'm Rick Gamen, and today we are DFSing the first of two weeks overseas. It's the Scottish Open, joining me to break it all down. See and Najad is here. Hello,
0:33.1	See you. Hello, how we doing? It sounds like this show based on my early ed show earlier this morning and a couple of comments in the chat.
0:41.0	I think we did really well for everybody this week, so hopefully we can run it back for the Scottish Open and the Open Championship as well.
0:48.7	Mike McClure is here.
0:49.8	Let's play this game, Mike.
0:51.6	I asked you at the end of last week's show, I think.
0:53.9	I'll ask you at the top of last week show I think I'll ask you
0:54.2	at the top of this week show what do you think the optimal lineup costs last week well I
1:02.6	honestly I don't know um I cashed lineups with four of sixes pretty nice like in tournaments
1:09.6	3x my money with four of sixes pretty nice like in tournaments three X my money with four of sixes
1:11.9	because Ben Griffin and someone else that I played did not make the cut yes there was a lot
1:20.0	of Ben Griffin disaster there was a couple of other like three of maybe the five most popular
1:26.4	golfers I think missed the cut.
1:28.1	The optimal lineup was $40,400.
1:33.2	Wow.
1:37.1	You know, it's your Brian Campbell's.
1:39.2	It's your Emiliano Grillo.
1:43.0	I mean, it was, it was, yeah, it was very, very low. We used to play that in a couple
1:48.6	sites had like the pro mode or whatever, what, like 10, 12 years ago, where you intentionally
1:53.3	built lineups with 10,000 less. I think it's time to bring that back for some of these events.
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