GRANBY — Northampton’s Galen Fowles didn’t start his day how he had hoped. Although he felt he put two good driver swings on his ball the first two holes, both took unfortunate bounces and ended up out of bounds – forcing him to re-tee.

Fowles made double-bogey on each one, putting him at 4-over through two holes to start his day at a Massachusetts Amateur Public Links qualifier on Monday afternoon at Westover Golf Course.

He didn’t let it faze him one bit.

After a par on the third, Fowles birdied the 212-yard par 3 fourth by rolling in a 30-foot bomb of a putt. One more par on the fifth hole set up the most impressive stretch of holes seen on Monday. Fowles went on to birdie the next four holes, making it five out of his last six to end the front nine.

Not even 30 minutes into his round he was staring at two doubles, and in the blink of an eye he was 1-under heading to the back nine. Fowles finished his round with seven consecutive pars and ended the day at even par, shooting a 72 to earn him a share of first-place medalist honors with Tekoa Country Club’s Lee Albertson.

“I’ve gotten on some heaters before, but that’s definitely up there with some of the most birdies I’ve made in a short amount of holes,” Fowles said. “I just started to make some great swings. I hit a couple of wedges close, and a couple irons close. I rolled in a long putt on four to kick it off, then made three putts under 15 feet in a row on 6, 7 and 8 then I nearly made eagle on 9. I just stuck to the game plan.”

The top 14 qualifiers and ties qualified for the Mass Amateur Public Links Championship set for July 29-30 at Cyprian Keys Golf Club in Boylston.

Alongside Alberston and Fowles, Bryce Piemonte (73, Tekoa Country Club), Jonathan Rustin (73, Mass Golf GC), Michael Mertes (74, Wyckoff Country Club), Christopher Boyd (74, Pinehills Golf Club), Andrew Morano (74, Kettle Brook Golf Club), Keith Burch (75, Crumpin-Fox Club), Luke Grebinar (75, Green Hill Muni Golf Course), Thomas Mercadante (75, St. Anne Country Club), Paul Couture (75, The Ranch Golf Club), Michael Finocchi (75, Heather Hill Country Club), Matthew Bailey (77, George Wright Golf Course), Nick Stern (77, Bayberry Hills) and Gunnar Moore (77, Country Club of Greenfield) all made the cut to advance to the championship.

Once Fowles, who just wrapped up his freshman year on the golf team at the University of Rochester, cooled down from his front-nine heater, his approach became simple: hit fairways, hit greens in regulation and make pars. He did that on nearly every hole on the back nine, and it led him to one of just two rounds of 72 from the field of 70 competitors.

“The back nine was just about hitting fairways and hitting greens,” Fowles said. “I didn’t need to do anything special to make the cut. Fairways, greens and two putts to just kind of cruise through the rest of the holes.”

Playing in Fowles’ group was Conway’s Gunnar Moore, who, like Fowles, started off slow. Moore found himself 5-over par through seven holes, but a par on eight and birdie on nine gave him momentum heading into the final nine.

Moore rolled in a 10-footer for birdie on 12 and played holes 13-through-18 at 2-over par to slot him just inside the cut with a 5-over round of 77.

“I definitely got back in the swing of things today,” Moore said. “I played in the Mass Am. qualifier last Wednesday and did terribly, but I’m sort of turning the corner a little bit. So yeah, just stuck in there. Didn’t really fix anything swing-wise, I just grinded it out. Got up and down a couple of times and made a few putts.”

Moore graduated from Deerfield Academy in the spring and is off to Hamilton College in the fall, where he will play golf.

While he said he intends to spend the rest of the summer making the necessary improvements to his game, it was just good enough to get the job done on Monday. After saving bogey on the par-4 14th (he hit his fourth shot from behind the green to about two feet before tapping in for a 5), Moore’s short game was tested again on 15 and 16. He got up and down from short of the green in both instances, keeping him at 4-over and one shot above the cut line.

He had some breathing room heading to the final tee box.

“I wanted to give myself a little cushion,” Moore said. “A couple of those up and downs were to keep me at four when the number was at five. So those were huge. They weren’t necessary, but they gave myself a little bit of room to bogey 18 – which I did.”

Other locals in the field included Cold Spring Country Club’s Chuck Edler, who missed the cut by one shot (78), Westover’s Steve Lefave (79), Amherst Golf Club’s Don Hodgkins (80), Westover’s Jesse Molin (80), Westover’s Anthony Kulig (81), Amherst Golf Club’s Jeff Edwards (82), Amherst Golf Club’s Jonathan Cody (82), Westover’s Joseph Whalen (82), Westover’s Michael Beck (83), Westover’s Adam Sampson (84) and Amherst Golf Club’s Doug Hanieski (90).