Cara Banks named lead play-by-play voice for NBC's LPGA coverage
Cara Banks will call the third round of the Chevron Championship on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.
HOUSTON — A new but familiar face will be in the booth this weekend for the Chevron Championship as Cara Banks has been named the lead play-by-play voice for NBC Sports' LPGA coverage. Banks will call the third round of the LPGA major on Saturday beginning at 1 p. m.
ET on NBC and Peacock, and the final round on Sunday at 2 p. m. View this post on Instagram While this marks Banks' first time calling the Chevron, she was in the play-by-play role a number of times last season, including the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, Mizuho Americas Open, and lead-in coverage of the U.
S. Women’s Open. She also worked in the booth at the 2021 ShopRite LPGA Classic.
Banks will be joined at Houston's Memorial Park Golf Course by analysts Morgan Pressel, Tom Abbott, and Paige Mackenzie. Jim “Bones” Mackay and Emilia Doran will provide on-course reporting, while Amy Rogers conducts interviews. Banks, a mother of three, once told Golfweek that her career inspiration began with Davina McCall, the British presenter who rose to fame as the host of the television series “Big Brother.