Spastic Tiger...

Sometimes I think the world is full of idiots.
Today Tiger Woods apologized for using the term "spaz" to describe his putting during the Masters, a remark that was criticized outside the United States as insensitive.
Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, said in a statement posted on Woods' Web site that the world's top-ranked golfer was "poking fun at himself and meant no disrespect to anyone."
Evidently in several countries, "spaz" is an offensive term for people with Cerebral Palsy. London-based Scope, formerly the Spastics Society, denounced Woods' remark as "appalling and insensitive," and international newspapers also criticized him.
In a televised interview after finishing third at the Masters on Sunday, Woods, 30, said he "putted atrociously. Once I got on the greens, I was a spaz."
I actually thought the word was inappropriate when Woods used it, but not because it was offensive. Most of the golfers during Saturday and Sunday rounds suffered on the wet greens at Augusta and had the unfortunate experience of having seemingly “perfect putting” going over and around the holes without the ball falling in.... everyone..well, except for Phil Michelson the winner.
When I was growing up the term “spaz” was known to all of us males. It meant when performing an activity sudden uncoordinated movement that interfered with performance, mostly in sports..
e.g. "When Mark turned 13 the youngster who had been the perfect little league player suddenly became a spaz in his awkward teenage years and never played the game again" …or …“I threw the basketball to Fred and instead of shooting it he became a spaz and threw it to the other team.”
None of us knew that the word had origins in foreign countries which were derogative toward people with Cerebral Palsy.,
I’m reminded of the opposite degree of political correctness when several years ago a Washington DC Mayor's Aide David Howard lost his job because he correctly described the stingy attitude of District’s city commission toward their budget as “niggardly”.