An emotional Lexi Thompson headlines the 2023 LPGA Rolex Players Awards

Lexi Thompson, LPGA Rolex Players Awards
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The LPGA Tour held its Rolex Players Awards on Thursday night at the Tiburón Golf Club in Naples, Fla.

Lexi Thompson was among 18 people to receive an award.

Thompson won the Founders Award from her playing peers. This award goes to the best player who exemplifies the LPGA’s spirit, ideals, and values through her behavior and deeds.

Winning this award is a huge honor on its own, but to know that it was voted on from my fellow peers, that I think so highly of and think that they’re such amazing women on and off the golf course, it means so much to me,” Thompson said accepting the award.

“I have cherished every single friendship that I have made in my whole career out here. So, thank you to them for, I guess, having this respect for me. Like I said, I’ve gained a lot of friendships, and I’m grateful for every single one of them.”

“I’ve cherished every single friendship I’ve made out here in my career.”@Lexi Thompson accepts the Founders Award at the 2023 @ROLEX LPGA Awards  pic.twitter.com/BeladWoVPS

— LPGA (@LPGA) November 17, 2023
Thompson, Jane Park, Hae Ran Ryu, Lilia Vu, Jim Fitterling and Sheri Hayes earned individual awards.

Park won the Heather Farr Perseverance Award, which goes to the player who has demonstrated determination, perseverance, and spirit in fulfilling her goals.

Her daughter, Grace Godfrey, experienced undiagnosed epileptic seizures during the 2021 Ascendant LPGA event. Park became her full-time caregiver and a massive advocate for disability and epilepsy awareness. This July, she returned to the LPGA to play at the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational.