MIND OVER MATTER

If there's one constant to Mark Wahlberg's life, it's to always play the long game.

- JAMES HEIDENRY

The Beverly Park mansion is something to behold. It's part family home, part playground of ridiculous proportions and part mission control, situated in a gated community high above the hazy expanse of Los Angeles. Mark Wahlberg and his wife, Rhea, bought the land back in 2009 for $8 million and, at the time, planned to develop and flip the property. “We built the house and then things just kept working out, so we moved in for good," says Wahlberg. Yeah, things worked out all right. The house is 28,000 square feet of hotel-size proportions and fronts a massive swimming pool, full-size basketball court, world-class gym and skate park.

There's even a hilltop driving range overlooking a putting green. It's what you're looking at on the previous page. And if you squint you can see Wahlberg's intrepid target, the cameraman for his Wahl Street docuseries on HBO Max, which chronicles his ever-expanding business empire. Wahlberg cracks a joke before sending the ball some 100 yards out. The shot is damn good, missing the cameraman by only a few feet. People who know the avid golfer know exactly what he's thinking: There's room for improvement!

GRINDING IT OUT