Greg Norman is nothing if not a man's man so it's not surprising to hear that he was operating a chainsaw at his home in Florida this weekend.

What's surprising is how it ended.

According to ESPN:

"Norman, the Hall of Fame golfer and entrepreneur, was cutting back trees in his South Florida home when the weight of a branch pulled his left hand toward the chain saw. He said the blade hit him just below where a person would be wearing a wrist watch. He said doctors told him it missed his artery by a fraction of an inch."

Doesn't sound ideal! Norman said he knows he got lucky.

"Thank God the blade wasn't running full speed or it would have taken my hand off," Norman said. "I handled everything as calmly as I could. There is no major damage. There is nerve damage, but no muscular damage. They fixed me up and here I am.

"There's a little tingling in my fingers, which is better than no fingers at all."

Good point.

"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," he said.

Here's an example from just one week ago:

No word on whether or not that's the same chainsaw that nearly got him.

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