Spaz
Spaz you, motherspazzers! You all need to shut the spaz up and stop being so spazzing sensitive. No idea what I’m talking about? Read on.
Tiger Woods has apologised for comments he made during a television interview after the U.S. Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday.
The American world number one, who tied for third place three strokes behind winner Phil Mickelson, was criticised for using the term “spaz” to describe his poor putting in the final round.
“Tiger meant nothing derogatory to any person or persons and apologises for any offence caused,” Woods’s agent Mark Steinberg said in a statement issued on the player’s official website.
Bidding for a fifth green jacket at Augusta, Woods produced a display of uncharacteristically shaky putting on his way to a closing two-under-par 70.
He took 33 putts in the final round, including three three-putts and a pair of missed eagle putts from inside 10 feet on the back nine. Mickelson took 29 putts in a closing 69.
When asked about his play on the last day at Augusta, Woods replied: “I putted atrociously today. Once I got on the greens, I was a spaz.”
In several countries, “spaz” is an offensive term for people affected with spastic paralysis, a form of cerebral palsy.
Reuters: Woods apologises for spaz reference
The word “spaz” in America is not at all offensive, merely meaning “clumsy or inept,” but apparently it is a derogatory term for those handicapped by spastic paralysis in the UK. I’m rather disappointed that Tiger Woods caved on this and apologized. They misunderstood him. He said one thing, and they interpreted it to mean something else. It would be like if an American heard a Brit say that he was going to “go outside and suck on a fag,” and became offended.
