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

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

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3.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Rick Gehman, Sia Nejad and Mike McClure preview the 2025 Travelers Championship from a DFS perspective with picks, strategy and more for TPC River Highlands. (0:00) Intro + Sia’s still salty about Sam…and the cutline (or lack thereof) (2:15) Course Breakdown: Travelers Championship and TPC River Highlands (6:53) 10k+ | “Definitely playing Scottie in a no-cut event” (11:59) 9k | Differentiating between the oven and the non-oven of the U.S. Open (18:30) 8k | Some flushers here, which ones do we go for? (23:03) 7k | A lot of names & a lot of interesting ones (29:00) 6k | Finding the value in a no-cut event #SportsBetting #Gambling #Betting #DraftKings #FantasySports #FantasyGolf #PGATour #PGADFS #TravelersChampionship #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	Welcome in. It's the early wedge. I'm Rick Damon and today we are DFSing the Travelers
0:17.4	Championship going tier by tier, finding the best and maybe the worst place for the week.
0:24.0	Joining me to break it all down, see you.
0:25.5	Inajad is here.
0:26.6	See ya.
0:27.0	Hello and good day.
0:28.4	Normally, I'm super excited about just a DFS slate that's out, a new bracket, if you
0:34.0	will, even though it's not actually a bracket, but that's how it feels.
0:36.8	But I'm still a little miffed over the Sam Burns thing, you know, even though it's not actually a bracket, but that's how it feels. But I'm still
0:37.5	a little miffed over the Sam Burns thing, you know, hitting out of a baby pool. And also,
0:43.4	not really loving this no cut thing. I'm hoping that changes over time as well. However,
0:48.8	I've already kind of formulated some lineups, and I am pretty excited about some roster
0:53.0	constructions for this week.
0:55.2	Yeah, the no cut thing, I'm over it. We've seen it for a couple of years. Just give me some cut.
1:03.6	Give me 80 to 50. Give me, ideally, I think it's probably 100 to 50. but the 72 everybody gets through and i don't know
1:14.4	mike mcclure is here hi mike what's up rick uh and seea how about the i you know see a mention
1:21.7	like a bracket and i was starting to think there i wouldn't mind seeing this field where it is
1:26.5	but cut it down to 32. We'll start a little
1:28.8	later on Saturday and Sunday and really make it still difficult to really be playing all four
1:37.1	rounds. Yeah, I love the built-in Friday drama of how many six of six lineups are you possibly going to get through
1:45.8	and how does that impact the rest of the I think that's kind of one of the skills is like how many
1:51.9	can you get through and then of those you get through how many can make their way up the leaderboard
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