Mark Gabrielli is a lifelong athlete and builder who writes about discipline and getting better. Golf shaped him more than anything else, and most of what he believes came off a course, a lane, or a boat.
Mark Gabrielli is a lifelong athlete and builder who writes at markgabrielli.com about discipline, getting better, and the games and habits that shaped him. Golf shaped him more than anything else. He started with his grandfather, played out of Green Pond Country Club through high school and college, and also bowls, shoots archery and fishes. Everything on the site is written in his own words.
Golf mainly, and it shaped him most. He also bowls, shoots archery, and fishes, including inshore, fly fishing and offshore. He learned to draw as well. What the six pursuits have in common is honest feedback: they punish force, reward preparation, and do not let you talk your way out of the result.
Going from a 12 to 14 handicap down to a 3 after a PGA Tour pro taught him the three quarter punch shot with a small cut. The change was learning to control the ball rather than hit it hard, swinging around 70 percent instead of full effort. His best round is 4 under par and he played out of Green Pond Country Club through high school and college.
Four things. The field, meaning sport and what it taught him about work. The work, meaning what he has built and got wrong. The learning, meaning school and everything after it. And the table, meaning family. The pieces open as he writes them and nothing goes up until it is true. Shorter essays live on the writing page.
Because a book is finished the day it prints and he is not finished. The site is a living record he can keep revising rather than a thing that stops being true. Most of what a person figures out never gets written down, so he publishes outlines and drafts now and fills them in as he writes them, while he still remembers how it felt.
Yes. There is an open invitation on his golf page and he means it. Get in touch through the contact page with a few options, and if it works around his schedule he will meet you at the first tee. The same offer goes for a day on a boat. Family and work come first, so a little flexibility on dates helps.
In the United States. He has not published a city on this site. The easiest way to reach him is the contact page, which goes straight to him with no mailing list or follow up sequence attached. He reads every message that comes in, including the ones that disagree with him and the ones asking to play a round of golf.