Michael Thorbjornsen is now a PGA Tour winner. With that comes some level of fame, fortune and, of course, pressure. So how does the 24-year-old Rocket Classic winner unwind after a long day grinding on the range? With Lego… obviously.
It used to be that PGA Tour pros would strum a guitar, get into wine or maybe restore an old car in their free time, but the times they are a-changin’. In recent years, Lego has become a popular pastime for adult males, but as Thorbjornsen explains, these aren’t the sets you remember from when you were a kid.
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“I have a few boxes unopened,” Thorbjornsen told Fore Play. “I have the Milky Way Galaxy, I’ve built an F1 car, I’ve built the Eiffel Tower. With the Eiffel Tower, I’m not sure I recommend it.”
Why wouldn’t he recommend arguably his biggest Lego accomplishment to date? Well, because the Lego Eiffel Tower stands nearly five feet tall, includes 10,001 pieces and retails for about $A1,000.
“It took me two weeks to build and the first three days of those two weeks, I worked on it eight hours a day,” Thorbjornsen said.
And that’s not all. Thorbjornsen also has a completed Lego Titanic in his office that is 1.4 metres long, includes more than 9,000 pieces and will set you back another thousands bucks, iceberg not included.
Although Thorbjornsen’s chosen hobby is widely considered to be for kids, clearly it’s anything but. Lego sets like those Thorbjornsen builds have largely replaced the ship-in-a-bottle and model-car building that kept our grandfathers and fathers occupied long into adulthood. They require vast amounts of focus, commitment and attention to detail. To us, that sounds a lot like golf, the very thing Thorbjornsen turns to Lego to escape from, but when it comes to a grown man and his hobbies, to each their own.
