​Great Britain and Ireland now have its 10.Still buzzing from his U.S. Amateur victory on Sunday at Merion, England’s Jack Whaley was among the players named to the GB&I Walker Cup team by the R&A on Tuesday morning.“I think I proved that I’m good in match play,” Whaley said.Whaley, whom captain Dean Robertson admitted was not in line to be selected for his debut until he lifted the Havemeyer Trophy to earn an automatic bid, joins six returners from last year’s 17-9 defeat to the U.S. at Cypress Point: Englishmen Tyler Weaver, Luke Poulter and Eliot Baker, Scotland’s Niall Shiels Donegan and Connor Graham, and British Amateur champion Stuart Grehan of Ireland; all six had previously secured their spots via the World Amateur Golf Ranking.“He performed so well under the umbrella at Merion with his double gloves on, showcasing that he can not only perform brilliantly in the U.S., but he can perform in adverse weather, too,” Robertson said of the 22-year-old Whaley, a rising senior at Florida State and one of seven U.S. college products representing GB&I. “Before last week, I wouldn’t have seen Jack in the team, but after watching him, the talent that he’s got and the humility that he’s got and the way that he spoke, I’m really excited to welcome him.”In a teleconference on Monday ahead of the big reveal, Robertson announced three other players who rounded out the roster: a trio of Englishmen in Ben Bolton, Sam Easterbook and perhaps one of the more shocking picks in recent memory, Josh Hill.Perhaps even more surprising is that Grehan is the only Irishman, as Grehan’s countrymen Thomas Higgins and David Howard were named first and second alternates, respectively.“I so wanted [David] and Thomas to be in the team, but it just wasn’t to be,” Robertson said, “and the selection I’ve made is a fair selection, and it’s an unbiased selection.”This year’s Walker Cup, set for Sept. 5-6 at Lahinch in Ireland, marks the first time the biennial event has been contested in back-to-back years since the first three editions in 1922-24. The six returning players is a GB&I record, too, as four times previously five players had carried over from the previous team, most recently from 1977 to 1979, but never six or more.While this year’s U.S. squad, which was announced on Sunday, features eight of the top 11 amateurs in the world, GB&I have six in the top 25, and Whaley is sure to rocket from 90th come this Wednesday when he gets his U.S. Amateur points.Easterbook is 80th, Bolton is 92nd and Hill 96th. Easterbrook posted five top-10s for Purdue last spring, plus a T-14 at the NCAA Championship, before a summer highlighted by him reaching the quarterfinals of the British Amateur and making the Round of 16 at the South of Ireland, held a few weeks ago at Lahinch, before losing to Hill. Bolton, 19, finished third in both the Lytham Trophy and European Nations Cup in Spain while tying for 13th at the European Amateur and m