{"id":17041,"date":"2025-07-23T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17041\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:34:09","slug":"golf-analyst-ian-baker-finch-retiring-after-19-years-with-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17041\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf analyst Ian Baker-Finch retiring after 19 years with CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 22, 2025, 01:24 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>Ian Baker-Finch is retiring after a his nearly three-decade career as a golf commentator following his professional playing days.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBSSportsGang\/status\/1947657891835433425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">announcement<\/a> was made Tuesday in a statement posted on CBS Sports&#8217; X account. Baker-Finch, 64, has spent the past 19 years with the broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>As a player, the Australian is most recognized for his win at the 1991 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. Baker-Finch began his broadcasting career with ESPN in 1998 and joined CBS in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 19 incredible years as a golf analyst with CBS Sports and a remarkable 30-year journey in the industry, I am announcing my retirement from broadcasting,&#8221; Baker-Finch said in a statement. &#8220;Golf has been an enormous part of my life. I was fortunate to compete against the best players in the game and more recently work with the very best in television. To my CBS Sports family &#8212; my teammates, producers, directors and crew &#8212; thank you for your extraordinary talent dedication and camaraderie. You&#8217;ve made every moment in the booth a job, transforming broadcasts into cherished memories.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 22, 2025, 01:24 PM ET Ian Baker-Finch is retiring after a his nearly three-decade career as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-17041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}