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Story summary
- Jack Whaley of England won the 2026 U.S. Amateur Championship, beating Jay Leng, Jr. 4 and 3 in the final at Merion.
- He became the third Englishman and first since Matt Fitzpatrick in 2013 to lift the Havemeyer Trophy after erasing a two-down deficit.
- Whaley entered match play by surviving a 16-for-11 playoff with seven birdies on the par-3 13th, a hole he later called his favorite memory with his dad.
