Cara Banks Departs Golf Channel for Role with NBC Sports

Cara Banks is helping lead the network's golf coverage, as well as working on the Olympics and the Premier League.

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Golf Channel host Cara Banks has announced she’s leaving the network to join NBC Sports in a full-time capacity.

Banks has spent more than a decade with Golf Channel as a studio host and reporter with the network.

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With her new role at NBC Sports, Cara Banks is helping lead the network’s golf coverage, as well as working on the Olympics and the Premier League.

In a post on social media, Banks shared the news, as well as her excitement for the move.

“I will never forget the leap from England to hosting live studio shows here in the U.S. in 2015 and grateful to everyone who held my hand as I grew along the way,” Banks said.

Cara Banks makes the move from Golf Channel to NBC Sports comes as the split between NBCUniversal and Versant — which encompasses the former cable assets of NBCUniversal like Golf Channel, CNBC, and MS NOW, among others — nears its completion.

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