EAST SETAUKET, N.Y. (July 10, 2024) The finals are set after day three of the 101st Long Island Amateur Championship Presented by Webster Bank . Max Silverman of the Glen Oaks Club and Jonathan Farber of the Mill River Club will face off in tomorrow’s 36-hole final to determine a champion.
In the morning, Silverman won his quarterfinal match by defeating Robert Giuffra of Shinnecock 5 & 3. He then squared off against Darin Goldstein of Deepdale Golf Club in the semifinals.
Silverman slowly built a 3-up lead as the match reached the par-4 13th.
“Thirteen, that hole just fits my driver well. And I have been in the same place, had a nice pitching wedge in – had that exact putt in the morning, saw his line, and rolled it right in,” Silverman explained. “On fourteen, good drive, perfect second, and gave myself a five-footer up the hill to win it.”
Farber won his first match of the day, defeating Dean Muratore of the MET PGA Junior Golf Club 2 & 1. In the afternoon, he faced Char Russekoff of Gardiner’s Bay Country Club with a chance to punch his ticket to the finals.
It was a very back-and-forth match, with both players holding a 1-up lead at different moments. Standing on the thirteenth tee, Farber found himself 1-down. He went on to win holes 13 and 15 – and hold off Russekoff to win the match on the eighteenth green, 1 up.
“So this is actually my second finals of the Long Island Am,” Farber said. “ I lost in 2018 to Colby (Anderson). My attitude is to just come out, do what I have been doing, and have fun with it.”
The first 18 holes of the 36-hole championship match is set to begin at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday.
