Golf DFS Preview - 2025 TOUR Championship Picks, Strategy | The Early Wedge

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Rick Gehman, Sia Nejad and Mike McClure preview the 2025 BMW Championship from a DFS perspective with picks, strategy and more. (0:00) Intro (2:00) Field Breakdown: 30 players, everyone starts at even par (6:00) Course Breakdown: East Lake Golf Club (11:05) 10k+ | Whattayaknow? Scottie isn’t expensive enough again (18:50) 9k | Just four golfers, but are we getting to this range? M2 explains. (24:55) 8k | you won’t believe who we like in the 8k (29:06) 7k | “I see *firepower* in this range” (34:30) 6k | “That was the lock of the century…” #SportsBetting #Gambling #Betting #DraftKings #FantasySports #FantasyGolf #PGATour #PGADFS #TOURChampionship #EastLake #FedExCupPlayoffs #EarlyWedge #golf 🎙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! 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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0:25.6	Adobe Express, the quick and easy Create Anything app, free. Welcome in. This is the early wedge. And this is your DFS preview for this week's tour championship. A lot of interesting things to get underway. A lot of strategy to discuss and helping me do just that. Siena Jha is here. Hello, Sia. What's going on? I feel like I'm already waiting for the pro course so I can get like a full field and a cut and 6K pricing with guys nobody's ever heard of. But this will be fun. I think there's a lot. And I think Mike will get to this
1:10.8	as the show goes, but certainly me and you will too, Rick, the game theory side of this.
1:15.8	I mean, to me, you just really have to lean into it with a tournament 30 deep. Yeah, we'll cover
1:21.9	that indeed. Mike McClure is here. Mike, hey, buddy. How's it going, fellas? Always excited
1:27.3	to get here. Undecided
1:29.4	how many lineups I'm playing this
1:31.3	week. I usually have been playing three
1:33.3	lineups. To me, it may
1:35.5	be a week
1:37.4	to play more. I may play 20. I may play 100.
1:40.4	Just kind of depending
1:41.5	on where I think some of the ownership
1:43.3	falls. I think there's
1:44.7	very interesting decisions to be made and, you know, obviously you have to nail the,
1:50.2	basically the top five. So it's going to be a fun tournament. Yeah, you're going to be
1:55.0	rostering 20% of the entire field in every single one of your lineup. See ya. You get to choose.
2:00.1	Would you like to talk about the course first or would you like to talk about the field first?
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