The Founders Award

The William and Mousie Powell Award is an award given each year since 1986 by the LPGA Tour to a player who "whose behavior and deeds best exemplifies the spirit, ideals and values of the LPGA." The recipient is selected annually by a vote of LPGA Tour members.^[1] The award was renamed to the Founders Award in 2019.^[2]

It was established by Mousie Powell, an honorary member and longtime supporter of the LPGA, and named in honor of Powell and her husband, William Powell, a Hollywood actor of the mid-twentieth century.

Winners

• 1986 Kathy Whitworth
• 1987 Nancy Lopez
• 1988 Marlene Hagge
• 1989 Heather Farr
• 1990 Judy Dickinson
• 1991 Pat Bradley
• 1992 Shelley Hamlin
• 1993 Alice Miller
• 1994 Jill Briles-Hinton
• 1995 JoAnne Carner
• 1996 Betsy King
• 1997 Sherri Turner
• 1998 Judy Rankin
• 1999 Meg Mallon
• 2000 Lorie Kane
• 2001 Wendy Ward
• 2002 Gail Graham
• 2003 Suzy Whaley
• 2004 Juli Inkster
• 2005 Heather Daly-Donofrio
• 2006 Vicki Goetze-Ackerman
• 2007 Natalie Gulbis
• 2008 Hilary Lunke^[3]
• 2009 Lorena Ochoa^[4]
• 2010–11 No award
• 2012 Ai Miyazato
• 2013 Amanda Blumenherst
• 2014 Chella Choi
• 2015 Juli Inkster
• 2016 Karrie Webb
• 2017 Katherine Kirk
• 2018 So Yeon Ryu
• 2019 Brooke Henderson
• 2020 No award
• 2021 Lydia Ko
• 2022 Chun In-gee
• 2023 Lexi Thompson
• 2024 Ally Ewing