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The Masters wrapped up from Augusta National yesterday and “Lefty” captured his third green jacket. Mickelson finished the final round 3 strokes ahead of second place and walked off the 18th green to share an emotional moment with his wife, Amy, who has been battling breast cancer since her unfortunate diagnosis 11 months ago. It was a positive moment for golf after a week surrounded by speculation on the return of the sports biggest star, Tiger Woods.

Perhaps garnering more attention than Tiger’s play was a controversial commercial run by Nike (above). The 30 second spot features a remorseful Tiger starring into the camera lens with the voice of his father, the late Earl Woods, seemingly speaking to him, saying, “I want to find out what your thinking was, I want to find out what your feelings are, and, did you learn anything?” The commercial has fueled debate over the internet with many fans suggesting Nike and Tiger are cashing in on his infidelity.

I can’t hate on Tiger for this one, the man’s already lost several sponsors and had no choice but to do whatever Nike asked of him. Plus, it was probably the shortest commercial shoot he’s ever done, just had to look into a camera for 30 seconds and pretend to be sad. He probably just thought of the scene in Top Gun where Maverick flies his F-14 through Iceman’s jet wash and both engines flame out, causing the aircraft to go into a flat spin that he just couldn’t recover from, in turn forcing he and wingman Goose to eject from their seats which of coarse shot Goose directly into the jettisoned cockpit canopy and killed him on impact, leaving Maverick with an overwhelming sense of guilt, stripping him of his aggressive, risk-taking nature and even leaving him with doubts of staying in the Navy at all (what did method-actors do before 1986?).

Nike, on the other hand, has some questions to answer… It sure seems like they’re using this whole controversy to pedal their shoes and t-shirt guns (and what’s the point, those suckers sell themselves). Things get even weirder when we came to find out Earl’s words weren’t even directed at Tiger when they were originally recorded. Hmm.

Check out Stephen Colbert’s thoughts below and let us know what you think about the PR stunt in the comments section!

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