Amanda Balionis celebrates return with beach selfie after covering golf in Japan

Amanda Balionis, the CBS sports reporter, thrilled her fans with a beach selfie, expressing her happiness to be back home after a wonderful working trip to Japan.

The snap was shared with her 321k Instagram followers on Sunday evening, featuring Balionis in a matching athleisure outfit and sunglasses, sipping coffee on the beach. The caption for the Story now-deleted read, "Home and happy."

The 39-year-old , best known for her PGA Tour coverage, just returned from a two-week stint in Japan where she covered the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, a golf tournament that ran from October 3 to 6. The event has been around since 2009 and plays at various locations within the Asia-Pacific. This year's winner was 19-year-old Chinese pro-golfer Wenyi Ding.

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She posted on Instagram a carousel of her time at the competition on October 9th. She wrote: "Arigato Japan for an incredible two weeks. The 15th @aac_golf was tremendous from start to finish. Wenyi Ding, the highest ranked player in the field, claimed the Amateur victory he wanted most before turning professional.

Her captioned concluded: "We had the honor of chatting with Tommy Nakajima, and saying thank you to Martin Slumbers for his decade of service to the game. Taiheiyo Club Gotemba is a gem and I already miss those Mt. Fuji views."

Earlier this month, Amanda said an emotional goodbye to the 2024 golf season as she transitioned from covering the PGA Tour to covering the NFL as football season kicks off.

Since 2018, she has covered college football and NFL games along with her full-time reporting golf duties. In her lengthy post bidding the golf season goodbye for now, she highlighted her love the sport, being apart of a "tremendous" team telling those stories as well as moments and talked about how it's been a year of "historic moments to heart shattering events."

While Amanda has been working, the reporter apppears to have had a separation for her husband Baltimore Ravens quarterback and former FIU quarterbacks coach Bryn Renner. She has not confirmed the divorce publicly, but in February, fans noticed she was no longer wearing her wedding ring anymore and then a month later, she had removed her married last name on social media and TV platforms. She has since been rumored to be linked to Northern Irish pro golfer Rory McIlroy.