By Julliana Bravo
Not every desire in life comes to fruition, but a special full circle moment can end up being more satisfying than one would think. For Corinna Limbocker, such a moment came following a hiatus from her favorite sport.
Limbocker always loved golf, from her early days learning the game at Monterey Peninsula Country Club in Pebble Beach, Calif., where her grandparents were members, to competing on the team at the University of Arkansas. Her competitive drive led her to follow the footsteps of her older sister, who also played golf.
“I wanted to do what my big sister did,” she recalls. Soon enough, she was competing in local tournaments and on the boys’ team in high school. “My parents never pressured me, but I always wanted to do well,” says Limbocker.
After graduating from the University of Arkansas in 2011, she pursued playing professionally. She had won the 2013 Tennessee Women’s Amateur Player of the Year and made it to the second stage of LPGA qualifying, but in 2014 she realized it was time to choose another path. Coming off two wrist surgeries didn’t help her cause either, so she turned focus to finding a spot in the work force.
Her next step came out of happenstance.
“One day I went in to get my husband's car battery changed and a week later, I had a job,” she recalls of landing a car sales position. However, she found that such a line of work was not for the weak. “I developed a really thick skin,” Limbocker says. A demanding schedule also forced her to hang up her clubs and, naturally, her relationship with golf changed.
But then, came her resurgence. Her husband Scott’s work brought them to New York. At first, Limbocker didn’t have a lot of faith when it came to East Coast golf, but after experiencing the courses in the Met Area she quickly saw the depth and beauty of golf in the region. With encouragement from fellow mid-amateurs, others in golf, and her husband, Limbocker began to sign up for events.
“I dipped my toe in and dipped my toe in again. I needed some nudging,” she recalls. Her old love for the game didn’t come overnight and it was a slow but sure process adding more golf to her schedule. She kept watch for a job within golf to more easily combine her passion with work and a friend steered her toward the pro shop manager role at The Tuxedo Club in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
Seven months later, she’s grateful for the role and how it’s developed not only her golf game again, but her mental wellness as well. “People want to be at a golf course, to have fun, to enjoy themselves,” she says.
Limbocker is also grateful for the mid-amateur community, where she’s developed friendships with fellow women golfers that support one another and inspire the continued pursuit of playing golf at a high level. In early October, Limbocker returned to where she first learned the game, competing in the 2025 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur at Monterey Peninsula Country Club.
Though Limbocker had a tough opening round, she showed grit in bouncing back with a sub-par score on Day 2. She made it to match play, though her run came to an end at the hands of friend Jacqueline Setas. Although Limbocker’s professional dream didn’t pan out and maybe the tournament ending wasn’t what she had hoped for, the experience served as a special perfect full circle moment for Limbocker.