Reading the whipwood description on aonprd.com, it seems to me that it's intended to be used where most of a weapon's length is wooden, thus giving it special properties when that section is attacked.
If you try to sunder a whip, I don't imagine that you'll be attacking the handle, but rather cutting the long, flexible leather segment, so that's an argument against being able to get the bonuses from whipwood construction added to a whip.
Still, it's a fairly specific bonus for a modest cost, and from the name alone, I could imagine an whip made of some exotic wood that's closer to a bundle of vines spiralling around one another. It's pretty flavourful, and your GM might go for it.
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It's not super clear, but scorpion whips might be made entirely out of metal.
So if you want special materials, I would look at making a scorpion whip out of some sort of metal.
Well, I am thinking of whip + whipwood + Weapon Material Mastery synergy http://aonprd.com/FeatDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Weapon%20Material%20Mastery
whips already have the trip feature, so all you're really getting out of it is +2 to trip maneuvers. I would think improved trip or any of the feats in that line would be a better use of a feat. But otherwise I don't see an issue with what you're trying to do.