​ARDMORE, Pa. — Jack Whaley knew that simply getting to the final match of the U.S. Amateur came with two huge perks – spots in the 2027 Masters and 2027 U.S. Open. What he didn’t know was where one of those (the U.S. Open) was being played next June. As for the Masters, well, that’s an easy one.Thankfully, he was able to find out via the Golf Channel on Friday evening, giving him a little more to think about all day.”I actually didn’t know it was [at Pebble] next year until I watched it yesterday,” Whaley said after defeating Carter Loflin on Saturday. “I watched on Golf Channel, it said what was at stake, and it was obviously the Masters at Augusta and then Pebble Beach, and I was like, sh-t, it could be a pretty good one.” RELATED: The quirky pre-shot rehearsal used by this U.S. Amateur semifinalistIt certainly will be. And his 2027 schedule could get even better should Whaley go on to take down Jay Leng Jr. in the 36-hole final on Sunday. That would also earn him a spot in the 2027 Open Championship at … wait for it … St Andrews. He picked a good week to have a week. Depending on who you ask, this Whaley run was a fairly unexpected one. He entered the week 90th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and would not even be considered as the best player on his college roster. That title would belong to Tyler Weaver, a fellow rising senior, and fellow Englishman, on the Seminoles’ men’s golf team who is currently the second-ranked amateur in the world. As Golf Channel’s Brentley Romine reported earlier this week, Whaley, prior to this week, was not even being seriously considered to be on the Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup team (the Walker Cup will take place in Ireland this September). That may change on Sunday, and it possibly has already. One guy who is surprised by none of this is Whaley’s FSU teammate Drew Jones, who flew to Philadelphia on Saturday, landing at 12 p.m. ET and heading straight to the golf course. Jones has seen Whaley’s game up close, noting that he is not a guy you want to be down early against in match play. Especially at this course. “He might be one of the straightest drivers of the golf ball I’ve ever seen. It’s a joke,” Jones said while Whaley was taking a 3 up lead over Loflin at the 12th. “We’ll joke around that he hits every single fairway a round. Whenever he does miss one, we’ll ask him ‘what happened?”It’s not really a shock just because of how good he drives it. If he ever gets up in matches like he does, he just kind of peppers fairways and wears you out. Definitely a hard guy to beat. I can see why he’s playing so well here.”They may be far apart in the rankings, but Jones says Weaver and Whaley are neck and neck when they are at school. And they may both work the hardest of anyone on the roster. “[Their work ethic is] Off the charts. England’s finest,” Jones said. “Him and Tyler get after it pretty good. They both work incredibly hard. All the internationals do, really.”Weaver, who ha