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title: "Bash Brother: Mark-Paul Gosselaar - FORE Magazine"
description: The SCGA caught up with actor and golf enthusiast Mark-Paul Gosselaar at his home course of TPC Valencia. The 40-year-old, best known for starring in the 1990s sitcom Saved by the Bell, was most currently seen in four seasons of the TNT legal dramedy Franklin & Bash. Gosselaar holds a 15.3 Handicap with the SCGA. On Golf I’ve only been playing seriously for a little over a year. I played in my 20s but it was more of a social thing. Celebrity events here and there. What got me into playing golf on a regular basis and being a fan […]
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# [Bash Brother: Mark-Paul Gosselaar - FORE Magazine](https://fore.scga.org/profiles/bash-brother-mark-paul-gosselaar)

 Written by [Julia Pine](https://fore.scga.org/author/julia-pine) | Jan 1, 2015 8:00:00 AM

*The SCGA caught up with** actor and golf enthusiast Mark-**Paul **Gosselaar** at his home course of TPC Valencia. The 40-year-old, best known for starring in the **19**90s sitcom *Saved by the Bell*, was most currently seen in four seasons of the TNT legal dramedy *Franklin & Bash*. **Gosselaar** holds a 15.3 Handicap with the SCGA.*

**On Golf**

I’ve only been playing seriously for a little over a year. I played in my 20s but it was more of a social thing. Celebrity events here and there. What got me into playing golf on a regular basis and being a fan of golf was that I wanted to play a sport that I could play my entire life and a sport I could play with my family. Golf is that. I also wanted to find something I would never be able to perfect or master. It’s a sport that you continuously chase after more and want to get better.

**On ****Acting**

I still, after all these years, feel that fire. I want to continue working and continue doing great projects with great people. I love the process. I’m just as ambitious as I was when I just started. I love what I do.

**On *****Saved ******b******y ******t******he Bell***

It was great. It was fun. But we didn’t have the level of sentiment that people have for it now. We had no idea it was going to be that big a deal because it wasn’t that at the time. After every season we thought we were cancelled. And at that age you aren’t overly sentimental, so I think I just enjoyed it for what it was at the time.

**On ****Zack Morris**

Zack was a character created by the writers and something that I based loosely on Ferris Bueller. He talked to the camera. When I first got the script something made me think of Ferris Bueller. And that’s sort of what I based my character on from that point on.

**On ****Fatherhood**

Because I’ve been on a TNT show for the past six years, and we do 10 episodes a year, I’m basically a stay at home dad eight months out of the year if I want to be. I do an odd TV show or film now and then, but I’m home a lot. Being a parent is the toughest job you could ever have. We have three children and it’s hard. But it makes you a better person and my wife and I wouldn’t have it any other way. We love having that energy in the house.

**On *****Franklin & Bash***

It was a lawyer show, but it was really about the relationship between these two guys. Somebody once described it to me as *Ally **McBeal* with balls, but I described it more like *Scrubs* with lawyers. It was a great experience for me.

**On ****Hobbies**

I do CrossFit pretty avidly. That’s my stay-in-shape routine. My wife and I love to watch cooking shows. I used to be really into cycling, but that was my sport before golf. I got out of that to play golf.

**On Goals ****f****or ****t****he Future**

In golf, it’s to be a single digit handicap. In my career, it’s to have stability. And in life, just happiness.

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