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Despite a history of scandals and a comeback that’s riding on a single PGA win, Tiger Woods is ready for his second close-up.

At least, that’s what Discovery is hoping after entering into a multiyear, non-US partnership that puts the 42-year-old golfer front and center of its soon-to-launch GolfTV video streaming service.

GolfTV, Discovery’s $2 billion partnership with the PGA Tour, announced on Tuesday that its collaboration with Woods would present the one-time world beater “as fans have never seen him before.”

“There is no sports figure that rivals Tiger,” Discovery Chief Executive David Zaslav said of GolfTV’s tapping Woods. “We, together, will build a master class about golf that’s like no other.”

The videos, which will feature the golfer playing in tournaments and doling out tips to Woods wannabes, were pitched as an extension of Discovery’s commitment to storytelling through “credible sources.”

“For the first time, Tiger will be the curator of his own story in his own voice,” Zaslav said.

Woods’ control of the narrative is expected to limit salacious coverage of the golfer, including his being beaten with a nine iron after his wife learned of his infidelity.

But what no one can control is Woods’ continued professional success after a five-year drought.

Those five years — marked by scandal, a DUI arrest and four back surgeries — ended with the golfer’s winning the PGA’s season-ending Tour Championship in September.

That was all it took to convince Zaslav that “the guy is a warrior.”

Starting in January, GolfTV will be available in all international markets outside China and South Korea. But it will lack domestic distribution — despite Discovery’s owning all PGA traditional broadcast rights and streaming rights outside the US for 12 years.

A Discovery spokesman said the company could eventually partner with a US distributor or launch a platform here of the sort it has overseas.

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