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LPGA Celebrates Season's Best

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APLES, Fla., Nov. 24, 2019 – As the 2019 LPGA Tour sea- Brooke Henderson received the 2019 Founders Award, an honor
Nson ends, the CME Group Tour Championship provided previously known as the William and Mousie Powell Award. The
the perfect opportunity to celebrate a year’s worth of incredible award is given annually to an LPGA Member who, in the opin-
on-the-course performances and off-the-course accomplish- ion of her playing peers, best exemplifies the spirit, ideals and
ments. values of the LPGA through her behavior and deeds. The award
Four-time 2019 LPGA Tour winner Jin Young Ko earned the has been given out since 1986, with a list of previous recipients
most hardware at Thursday night’s Rolex LPGA Awards, accept- that includes Kathy Whitworth, Nancy Lopez, Pat Bradley, Betsy
ing the Rolex Player of the Year award and Rolex ANNIKA Ma- King, Juli Inkster, Lorena Ochoa, Chella Choi, Juli Inkster, Karrie
jor Award. She later added the Vare Trophy to her tally when Webb and So Yeon Ryu. Effective this year, the award will be pre-
she captured the award for the season’s lowest scoring average sented in honor of the 13 LPGA Founders who began the LPGA
following completion of the CME Group Tour Championship, Tour in 1950.
finishing at 69.062. “I know we as a Tour will continue to do our best to honor all 13
“At this very special occasion, I want to say that this is not the Founders and act as they so courageously and inspiringly did.
end but only the beginning,” said Ko. “I will work even harder to What makes this award even more special is that it was voted on
become a better golfer.” by my playing peers on the LPGA. Thank you to all of you,” said
Additionally, by winning the 2019 Official Money title with Henderson. “I have made many great friends over my five years
$2,773,894, Ko joined Yani Tseng, Lorena Ochoa and Ariya Juta- on Tour. I love being able to live my dream playing out there and
nugarn as the only players to win the Player of the Year and the to experience this journey along so many talented golfers who
Vare Trophy and lead the Tour in season earnings while also sit- are also great people.”
ting first in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings. Suzann Pettersen, who retired in September after returning
from an extended maternity leave to
sink the winning putt for Team Europe
at the 2019 Solheim Cup, was named
the winner of the 2019 Heather Farr
Perseverance Award. The award hon-
ors an LPGA player who, through her
hard work, dedication and love of the
game of golf, has demonstrated deter-
mination, perseverance and spirit in
fulfilling her goals as a player. Estab-
lished in 1994, the Heather Farr Per-
severance Award celebrates the life of
Farr, an LPGA Tour player who died
on Nov. 20, 1993, following a four-and-
a-half-year battle with breast cancer.
Previous winners of this award include
Heather Farr, Shelley Hamlin, Martha
Nause, Terry-Jo Myers, Lorie Kane,
Nancy Scranton, Brandi Burton, Kris
Tschetter, Kim Williams, Beth Daniel,
Colleen Walker, Amy Read, Se Ri Pak,

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