United By Golf | Jonathan Stewart

 

Jonathan Stewart is obsessed. Since retiring from the National Football League – where he became the all-time Carolina Panthers’ leading rusher and helped lead them to the Super Bowl – Stewart has become hooked on golf.

 

“The main thing I like about playing golf is the grind,” says the friendly 38-year-old. “It's a game that I can walk away from knowing that I went through every single-possible emotion. I love that I can still say there are ways to calculate a baseline. The grind is also what I love most about football. Knowing that you have an off season, there's a process. You have to basically invest in yourself, invest in your craft every single day, and if everything works out as a success, as far as wins and losses, that's what you're measuring. Wins and losses. But even if the losses are more than the wins, you know that you put in the work and the grind, and you respect the grind. In golf, there's a love and respect element, nonstop, every time you go out there. No matter who you're playing against, you're always playing against yourself. It's a game measured by whatever you put in, you get out. And that's what I love, because it's the same mindset that I had playing football.”