SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Nike aired a television commercial Wednesday featuring disgraced golf superstar Tiger Woods, his first new TV spot since a sex scandal prompted some sponsors to distance themselves from the tour legend.

The ad will run Wednesday and Thursday on the Golf Channel and Walt Disney Co’s ESPN.

Woods took nearly five months off from golf after startling revelations of his extramarital affairs came to light last year, but he is making a highly anticipated return at the Masters tournament in Augusta, Georgia, starting Thursday.

A spokesman for Woods could not be reached to comment.

The black-and-white spot shows Woods looking directly into the camera while the voice of his late father Earl Woods, in an older recording, speaks in the background, asking “Tiger?.”

“I want to find out what your thinking was, I want to find out what your feelings are, and did you learn anything?” his father asks. Tiger does not speak in the ad. Continue reading →

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