Jamie Donaldson hopes to play Singapore

 Open after chainsaw injury

By PA Sport

 

Jamie Donaldson has been forced to pull out of the Abu Dhabi Championship after having an accident involving a chainsaw

Ryder Cup star Donaldson hopes to play in next week's Singapore Open after escaping serious injury following a mishap with a chainsaw while gardening at home.

Welshman Donaldson, who secured the winning point as Europe defeated the United States at Gleneagles in 2014, posted a graphic photo of the damage to the little finger of his left hand sustained while gardening.
Above the image on Twitter, the 40-year-old wrote: "So folks in my time off decided to have a fight with a chainsaw and lost! Oops!! C u in Dubai."

Donaldson hopes to play in Singapore next week

However, Donaldson's manager John Fay said the Welshman had not suffered any tendon damage and confirmed that he would be able to feature on the Asian Tour next week.
"Jamie has full movement in the finger and is expected to make a full recovery," he said. "He is very relieved and will be a lot more careful in the future."

Donaldson, who claimed his first victory in more than a year in the Thailand Golf Championship in December, had been due to play in this week's Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship, a tournament he won in 2013.
He later added on Twitter that he was "making progress" after having the stitches in his finger removed and posted another picture with the caption: "Looking a lot better, swinging a club fully...no balls hit yet!"

Donaldson posted a picture of his hand injury on Twitter

He is not the first golfer to have suffered an accident with a chainsaw, with former World No 1 Greg Norman suffering nerve damage to his left hand while cutting wood in September 2014.
Asked in Abu Dhabi if he owned a chainsaw, Donaldson's Ryder Cup team-mate Henrik Stenson joked: "Why? Do you have some trees you want me to cut? It didn't start last time I tried, so it's probably a good thing.

Henrik Stenson says lumberjacking can be fun but dangerous

"I used to chop wood when I was a youngster. I had a couple of close calls with the axe as well. It's good fun to do something different and you feel like you're strong, lumbjeracking.
"But it can be dangerous and we've had a couple of my colleagues find that out."
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