Ian Baker Finch, CBS Golf Analyst: 'One Word About Tiger, I Will Get Fired'

Ian Baker Finch, the former British Open champion who joined CBS Sports as a golf analyst in 2007, has suggested that he is under network orders not to speak about the Tiger Woods scandal.

"Mate, if I say one word about Tiger I will get fired," the Sydney Morning Hearld quotes Baker-Finch as saying before playing in an Australian golf tournament Monday.

The Australian newspaper says that Baker-Finch "has been gagged by the US network from talking about Tiger Woods' dramatic fall from grace."

Comments

[lemondade]

09:23 AM on 12/18/2009

"FUNNY HOW "GOLDIE" BLONDE HAWN NEVER GOT BAD PRESS OVER SLEEPING WITH MOST OF THE MEN IN HOLLYWOOD! MARRIED ONES, TOO. SHE JUST HAD TO TOSS HER DYED BLONDE MANE OF HAIR AND FLASH HER FAKE CUTESY SMILE AND NO ONE CARED. SHE WAS CAUGHT IN A HOTEL ROOM IN THE MIDDLE OF A SEX ACT WITH MICHAEL DOUGLAS, ACCORDING TO A FRIEND'S BOOK, BY MICHAEL'S WIFE DIANDRA. (HOW WOULD YOU WIVES LIKE TO WALK INTO YOUR HOTEL ROOM AND SEE THAT!?) PLUS, SHE CHEATED ON HER CHRISTIAN HUSBAND AND LEFT HIM WHEN HER FAMOUS DAUGHTER KATE WAS A BABY: SHE DUMPED HIM IN THE NEWS MEDIA AND HAS NOT LET HIM SEE HIS CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN? THAT IS FAR WORSE THAT PULLING A "TIGER WOODS".

[melton244]

03:57 AM on 12/18/2009

Must be like how nobody can discuss Joe Sca.rbo..urgh 's issue with a dead young woman in his office and NOONE reported on it , discusses it, NEVER talks about it!!! Why????? If there is nothing to hide....then explain what happened?

[lemondade]

04:54 PM on 12/17/2009

HOW COME THE MEDIA HAS NOT GONE AFTER GOLDIE HAWN, MICHAEL DOUGLAS, WARREN BEATTY, JACK NICHOLSON, STEVEN SPIELBERG, KATE CAPSHAW, BILL CLINTON, THE ACTRESS THAT STARS IN "GRACE", AND OTHERS FOR THEIR EXCESSIVE SEXUAL GET-TOGETHERS WITH ONE ANOTHER!!!??? BUT TIGER WOODS IS PUBLICLY 'STONED' (AS JAMIE LEE CURTIS CORRECTLY STATED).!!!???

[Weirdo]

06:31 PM on 12/17/2009

Are you saying this is a race thing?

[lemondade]

04:50 PM on 12/17/2009

IS IT TRUE THAT "GOLDIE" HAWN PUT A 'GAG ORDER' ON THE FATHER OF HER CHILDREN WITH HIM BECAUSE HE COULD DESTROY HER REPUTATION!!!???

[1hotgolfer]

02:39 PM on 12/17/2009

This stuff has become so consuming, that next we'll probably hear that Tiger's fellow PGA pros arranged all of these women for him...figuring that he could't possibly win as much while being a prolific fornicator!! Makes me wonder what his record would be had he remained monogamous!!!

[gumbo1049]

08:47 AM on 12/17/2009

Golf ----------- OVERPAID SMALL BALL CHASERS.

[gwj2000]

10:55 AM on 12/17/2009

Doctors- OVERPAID PILL PUSHERS

Teachers- UNDERPAID SHAPERS OF YOUNG LIVES

Police Officers- UNDERPAID LIFE PROTECTORS

American society- HYPOCRITES

[gumbo1049]

02:21 PM on 12/17/2009

Thank you for the other truths.

[lemondade]

01:25 AM on 12/17/2009

DID THIS GOLFER, IAN, INTRODUCE MR WOODS TO THE NANNY OF HIS? AND THEN THE NANNY BECAME MRS WOODS.

THEN WHO INTRODUCED MR WOODS TO THE BIMBOS?

THE NANNY BECAME WEALTHY AND HAD TWO BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN WITH THE BEST GOLFER IN THE WORLD. CAN ANY OTHER YOUNG WOMAN CLAIM THE SAME STAIRWAY TO SUCCESS WITHOUT COLLEGE?

SHE ISN'T TOTALLY A VICTIM HERE. SHE WENT FROM A NANNY TO A BILLIONAIRESS?

[Middle Blue]

06:52 AM on 12/17/2009

Her family was already rich.

Not as rich as she is going to be, but rich enough to run in the right circles.

[noudidnt]

09:56 AM on 12/17/2009

Please.

This is the same spin white people were making about the Brown family.

Give it a rest. She was working as a nanny.

[noudidnt]

09:58 AM on 12/17/2009

He's not a billionaire. He's made almost a billion, but that is not his net worth. She's worth as much as the current prenup allows. The rest of your point stands.

[otop016]

11:07 PM on 12/16/2009

I'm not about to go through all the comments, so I'm probably being repetitive, but...didn't he already utter 'one word' (and a few more) about Tiger? Guess he should be expecting to be sacked...

[FCBarca]

09:55 PM on 12/16/2009

Guess our country isn't as 'free' as we claim it to be

[KIVPossum]

07:25 AM on 12/17/2009

No, it's still as free. He is free to say anything he wants to say. His employer is free to fire him if he disobeys their instructions.

[Weirdo]

06:39 PM on 12/17/2009

Shows you how much influence a little bit of money can get you. It doesn't matter, though. Tiger is already ruined.

[WeleaseWoger]

09:24 PM on 12/16/2009

Duh. By his presence alone, Tiger draws hundreds of millions of dollars that the golf world would never see otherwise. Don't f*ck with the golden goose (even if he f*cks everything else).

[Terry Moore]

08:23 PM on 12/16/2009

I wonder if it's okay to talk about Jim Nance.

[lemondade]

02:50 PM on 12/16/2009

WHO KNOWS, MAYBE IAN PAID THE HOOKER-TYPE UGLIES TO GO AFTER TIGER!

[court99]

09:25 AM on 12/16/2009

so....is he fired yet? He said one word...

[ocalasatpro]

10:40 AM on 12/16/2009

Thinking the same thing here. Just saying he was gagged could get him the pink slip.

[piper1233]

07:28 AM on 12/16/2009

And so you should be, Are you paid as a golf analyst or a gossip columnist. This is a lesson for all the Greats. When you are on top of youyr game everyone lines up to kiss your ass, but one false move and you will quickly learn how many jealous haters are ready, willing, and able to ponce on any chance to put you down. An Elected President of The United States had More support from the American Public after betraying the Trust of The Nation with an Imoral act on a young Intern, than that given to Tiger Woods (a golfer who commided adultery). You figure it out.

[Mum]

06:57 AM on 12/16/2009

You mean the only place I can go NOT to hear about Tiger Woods is some golf program somewhere? Heaven help us.

[ebanks84]

12:02 PM on 12/16/2009

ROTFLMAO. My sentiments exactly :)