Name: Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg
Claim to Fame: Actor, producer, businessman
Handicap: 
Connections to Golf:
– Didn’t play golf as a kid. “The only time I would hold a golf club would be to utilize it as a weapon,” he said.
– Was talked into playing golf by his agent, Ari Emanuel, eventually joining Riviera Country Club
– Began playing left-handed, switched to right-handed and eventually, back to left-handed. Still putts right-handed
– Has become good friends with Bubba Watson and played with the two-time Masters champion at the 2016 AT&T National Pebble Beach Pro-Am
– Started a production company called “Closest to the Hole Productions”
– So golf-obsessed that on the set of “Deep Water Horizon” (being released this year) he had a golf simulator to practice his swing
– Recently hit a hole-in-one with a golf ball given to him by Rory McIlroy
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.@Mark_Wahlberg … he can golf too. https://t.co/iCvwaGNwde
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) February 12, 2016
