{"id":29593,"date":"2025-07-22T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29593\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:12:08","slug":"golf-analyst-ian-baker-finch-retiring-after-19-years-with-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29593\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf analyst Ian Baker-Finch retiring after 19 years with CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul 22, 2025, 01:24 PM ET<\/p>\n

Ian Baker-Finch is retiring after a his nearly three-decade career as a golf commentator following his professional playing days.<\/p>\n

The announcement<\/a> was made Tuesday in a statement posted on CBS Sports’ X account. Baker-Finch, 64, has spent the past 19 years with the broadcaster.<\/p>\n

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

“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,” Baker-Finch said in a statement. “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 — my teammates, producers, directors and crew — thank you for your extraordinary talent dedication and camaraderie. You’ve made every moment in the booth a job, transforming broadcasts into cherished memories.”<\/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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-29593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}