Mike Davis, the United States Golf Association's championship guru who isn't afraid to ruffle a few feathers with bold setup moves, might be considering one for the age for the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place.

Changing a hole's par during a tournament.

Huh?

That is what he told Associated Press reporter Doug Ferguson over the weekend in a telephone interview.

"One thing I'm absolutely positive we'll do in the future, perhaps in 2015 at Chambers Bay, is play a hole certain days as a par 4, and certain days as a par 5," Davis said.

To which the world's No. 1 golfer Tiger Woods responded: "You can't change par in the middle of a tournament."

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This summer, Hawaii's Sam Cyr will play his final circuit of major amateur tournaments before turning professional.

On Monday, he got off to a rousing start at the 108th Pacific Northwest Golf Association Men's Amateur championship at The Home Course in DuPont.

Under blustery morning conditions, Cyr, a two-time NAIA Division I men's champion from Point Loma Nazarene in San Diego, fired a 5-under-par 67 to grab a one-stroke advantage over Longview's Ian Dahl and Canadian Dave Bunker (68).

Four of Cyr's seven birdies came in the first seven holes as he started off the 10th tee. He made birdies at Nos. 10, 13, 14 and 16 before his lone bogey on the par-4 18th.

Locally, Lacey's Cameron Peck (71) is tied for ninth, Graham's Kyle Wesolowski (72), the reigning Puget Sound Amateur champion, is tied for 16th, as is Tacoma's T.J. Bordeaux. Tacoma's Brandon Moore and James Feutz, the 15-year-old from Bellarmine Prep, are tied for 51st after 73s, and University Place's Andrew Putnam (77) is in a group in 86th.

The top 64 from today's final round will advance to match play, which starts Wednesday.

Cyr is an accomplished player in windy conditions. For starters, he hails from Makawao, Hawaii. And for the first two rounds of his run to the NAIA championship last May in Illinois, he faced unpredictable gusts. He ended up as the lone finisher under-par.

As the NAIA champion, he has received invitations to play in the Western Amateur and the Porter Cup before he heads off to PGA Tour Qualifying School next fall.