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

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Rick Gehman, Sia Nejad and Mike McClure preview the Valero Texas Open with DFS picks, strategy and fades. (0:00) Intro + Course Breakdown (9:45) 10k | “The comfortable thing is the obvious thing” (15:15) 9k | A couple Masters champions at the top of the range, but they’re struggling (20:51) 8k | “I kinda hate this range” (25:43) 7k | Play Ben Griffin, just for the vibes. (33:58) 6k | Where are the names worth playing? #SportsBetting #Gambling #Betting #GolfDFS #DailyFantasySports #ValeroTexasOpen #RickRunGood #SiaNejad #MikeMcClure 🎥 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.
0:04.8	Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand.
0:12.5	Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.
0:17.5	From startups to scaleups, online, in person, and on the go.
0:22.0	Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you.
0:24.5	Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.
0:47.5	Welcome in. This is the early wedge. And today it is your DFS preview for this week's Valero, Texas.
0:53.0	Open joining me to break it all down. Mike McClure is here. Hello, Mike. Hello, Rick. Hello, Sia. Fired up one week closer to the Masters.
0:55.8	Still love this tournament, though, too. I like the little Texas swing after the Florida swing,
1:01.0	mostly because we get some guys, you know, still good field overall. And we got very interesting
1:07.6	course history to talk about, you know, in this field. So still a great event.
1:12.9	And also, again, very much looking forward to Augusta. Yeah, strong, strong course history.
1:17.9	We'll talk about that in just a second. But yes, this swing gets overlooked a little bit because
1:22.3	everybody is just just waiting, just counting down the days until we get to the master.
1:26.7	See? And Ajad is here. Hey,
1:28.2	see ya. How we doing? I'm trying to bounce back. I had a bad two weeks ago. I had a great week with my
1:33.7	bets. My DFS was pretty good. Last week, I just, I think I just had the course assessed wrong,
1:38.8	especially with, you know, preferred lies for most of the time and short game really not coming into play like I thought it was
1:44.3	going to so I need this Valero Texas open so I can have a new week Rick what did I see
1:51.8	260 was the total score for Minwu Lee 20 under par par 70 that that adds up in my head that's the
1:59.4	lowest score four round total ever
2:02.8	recorded at that at that course I believe because of the obviously the wet conditions
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 3 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CBS Sports, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CBS Sports and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.