From 1924 to 1933, every Open champion was American with wins for Gene Sarazen, James Barnes, Denny Shute and Tommy Armour.

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Could a strand of DNA be spliced open at a precise location at the beginning of a gene?

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There is no chance, independent scientists say, that released salmon would win a Darwinian war in open waters with wild salmon the so-called Trojan gene effect.

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Edward Stimpson, a Massachusetts amateur champion, devised the first Stimpmeter in 1935, after watching Gene Sarazen putt off a green at that year's U.S. Open at Oakmont and deciding it was unfair.

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