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

The First Cut Golf

CBS Sports, Golf, PGA Golf Tour, PGA, LIV Golf, Golf Picks, Golf Bets, Tiger Woods

Golf, Sports

4.4 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Download and listen to the Early Wedge on the Early Edge podcast on Apple, Spotify, and anywhere you get your podcasts. Welcome to the expanded Early Wedge! Your new home for expert golf DFS and betting advice! It's Cognizant Classic week. Rick Gehman, Sia Nejad and Mike McClure are here with a DFS preview, picks, strategy and plenty more! (0:00) Intro + the new and expanded Early Wedge! Let’s do it! (6:11) Course Breakdown: PGA National (The Champion Course) and the Florida Swing (11:45) 10k+ | Two Golfers: Russell Henley, Shane Lowry (15:00) 9k | A lot of lineups will start here this week (26:36) 8k | Jordan Spieth is in this range after a late commit to the Cognizant (33:49) 7k | 44 Golfers! Let’s find the right ones (42:35) 6k | “I’m not really playing anyone in this range…” #SportsBetting #Gambling #Betting #TheEarlyWedge #GolfDFS #GolfFantasy #CognizantClassic 🎥 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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0:25.6	Search EE Mobile.
0:26.6	Stay connected at 0.5 megabits per second. Terms apply. Welcome in. This is the early wedge. I'm Rick Gaiman, and today we are taking you through everything you need to know for the DFS side of things for this week's Cognizant Classic. This is a new era of the early wedge. We are going to talk about
0:56.7	what the future looks like and things to be excited about, but let me bring in my guys here
1:01.7	for today. See ya, Najat is here. Hello, see ya. Hello. This is, this reminds me, Rick,
1:07.5	of our DFS show we used to do. I mean, obviously, Greg was involved in that.
1:12.8	We've got Mike McClure on this one. And I think everybody's really excited to have Mike,
1:17.7	everybody in the early edge in sports line universe. I do a DFS show with him as well,
1:22.1	fantasy football today, DFS. So this is a familiar pairing, but just in a different way with everybody, I think. So I'm very
1:29.7	happy to be here, very excited about what's being rolled out for the early wedge. And Rick, most
1:34.4	importantly, very happy to be working with you on a regular basis again. Oh, boy. Well, thank you.
1:40.3	No, I feel like I'm in bizarro world right now. Everything feels so similar,
1:44.5	but everything feels so different. Mike McClure is here. Mike, this is a brand, the early
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