Hall of Fame golfer Greg Norman is recovering after his left hand was nearly severed in a "spooky" chainsaw accident.
Greg Norman, a two-time British Open champion, told "The Today Show" he was cutting trees outside his South Florida home on Saturday when his left hand got caught under the weight of a branch.
"The weight of the limb was heavier than I anticipated, so as I was pointing the chainsaw away, the limb came and took my arm right down on top of the blade," the 59-year-old told "Today."
Norman said the saw struck his arm right below where a person's watch would be, the Associated Press reported. Doctors told him the blade barely missed an artery.
"Thank God the blade wasn't running full speed or it would have taken my hand off," he told the AP. "I handled everything as calmly as I could. There is nerve damage, but no muscular damage."
The Australian native, who describes himself as a positive person, uploaded a picture on Instagram of him in a hospital bed with a huge piece of purple foam covering his bandaged left hand. A week earlier, he posted a picture of him standing by a tree with a chainsaw in hand.
By Sunday morning, Norman posted another picture of him standing shirtless with the same foam covering his left hand with his right giving a thumbs-up. He told the AP he would use his chainsaw again.
"When I'm on a ranch, I love to run the bulldozer, the grader, whatever. I like doing stuff. I never ask anybody to do that for me if I can do it myself," said Norman, a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame since 2001.
Norman admitted his accident was "spooky" because he ignored a bad "premonition" he had while getting his chainsaw moments before the accident.
"Lo and behold, the moral of the story is trust your premonition," Norman told "Today."
"If I ever have that feeling again, I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing."
