{"id":17906,"date":"2025-07-24T06:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17906\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T06:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:44:12","slug":"ian-baker-finch-will-retire-from-golf-coverage-on-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17906\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Baker-Finch will retire from golf coverage on CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ian Baker-Finch is retiring after CBS ends its PGA Tour golf coverage next week after nearly 19 years of his friendly Australian voice contributing to the network\u2019s broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Baker-Finch, best known for his British Open victory in 1991 among his 16 victories worldwide, joined CBS in 2007. He had worked the previous decade in golf announcing with ESPN and TNT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGolf has been an enormous part of my life,\u201d Baker-Finch, 64, said in a statement. \u201cI was fortunate to compete against the best players in the game and more recently work with the very best in television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CBS ends its 2025 coverage of the PGA Tour next week at the Wyndham Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a major champion during his successful playing career and over three decades in broadcasting, Ian Baker-Finch distinguished himself as one of the most respected and trusted voices in golf,\u201d said David Berson, the president and CEO of CBS Sports. \u201cAs he announces his retirement, we\u2019ll miss his passion, insight, warmth and steady presence on the air but know he will continue to make his mark across the world of golf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/theaugustapress.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Award Winning Staff with More than 240 Years of Journalism Experience\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/TAP-Subscribe-ad.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"520\" height=\"366\" style=\"display: inline-block;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ian Baker-Finch is retiring after CBS ends its PGA Tour golf coverage next week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,17846,755,85],"class_list":["post-17906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-free","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}