{"id":324992,"date":"2025-12-03T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324992\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:10:09","slug":"colt-knost-elevated-to-cbs-sports-booth-for-golf-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324992\/","title":{"rendered":"Colt Knost elevated to CBS Sports booth for golf coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">CBS is not going far to replace longtime golf analyst Ian Baker-Finch, choosing to elevate walking reporter Colt Knost to the role heading into 2026. Baker-Finch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/04\/baker-finch-says-goodbye-to-cbs-after-wyndham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/04\/baker-finch-says-goodbye-to-cbs-after-wyndham\/\">retired in August<\/a> after 18 years in the booth for CBS\u2019s golf coverage and an eight-year run with ESPN and ABC (1998-2006).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Knost started working part time with CBS in 2019 and has been with the network full time since 2021. Knost, who retired from pro golf in 2020, also hosts his \u201cSubpar\u201d podcast and has had other golf media work along with reporting at CBS. He was on the call at the recent Skins Game on Prime Video and has worked in recent years for Augusta National\u2019s streaming broadcasts on Masters.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The move puts Knost alongside Jim Nantz, Trevor Immelman and Frank Nobilo in CBS\u2019s \u201cSuper Tower.\u201d Dottie Pepper and Mark Immelman will remain in walking reporter roles for CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS is not going far to replace longtime golf analyst Ian Baker-Finch, choosing to elevate walking reporter Colt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,1747,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-324992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-pga-tour","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324992","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=324992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}