Hart and James were no doubt hoping to outdo each other in the race to be named as England's number one keeper for the World Cup, but a lack of chances certainly reduced their opportunities to impress.
The Arms Park region, number one seeds in the Heineken Cup, topped English giants Leicester Tigers, Bath and Sale Sharks to qualify for Saturday's semi from Group B when the Blues will face Group D winners Northampton Saints at Coventry's Ricoh Arena.
The last Stanley Cup pitted teams from the number one and two television markets and Los Angeles has the champion.
Since then, of course, the world's number one team have suffered the trauma of another World Cup disaster, the favourites shocked by France in last year's quarter-final in Cardiff.
The US may no longer include the world number one in their ranks for next week's Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills in Michigan, but that just might make Woods a more dangerous opponent.
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Known for his frequent temper tantrums and arguments with referees, John McEnroe won seven Grand Slam singles titles, was part of five U.S. Davis Cup winning teams, and held the Number One world ranking for four straight years (1981-1984).
Davies has a career tally of 23 points in the Solheim Cup, trailing Sweden's former world number one Annika Sorenstam by just a single point, with a win-loss-half record of 21-16-4.
British number one Andy Murray has chosen to take a break from the Davis Cup while number two Alex Bogdanovic also opted not to take part in the tie, which is Leon Smith's first as captain.
But the present Ryder Cup captain, Europe's eight-time number one, has not managed a US PGA Tour title in 17 years of trying, losing play-offs for the US Open and US PGA and having two other second places in the US Open.
European number one Montgomerie will face strong competition from holder Miguel Angel Jimenez and Ryder Cup duo Paul Casey and Thomas Bjorn.
McDowell's comments came before Kaymer late collapse on Saturday but barring an astonishing final round by the Ryder Cup hero, the German appears to have the European number one spot in the bag.
World number two Lee Westwood finished on one-under as did Europe's 2012 Ryder Cup captain, Jose Maria Olazabal, from Spain.
The former world number one had also been among the pre-event favourites for Sunday's King George V Gold Cup on Sunday aboard his probable London 2012 horse Gig Amai.
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The 37-year-old Ryder Cup star needs to finish in the top two to replace Tiger Woods as world number one but ended 10 shots off the pace at two under.
However England did not want to take any chances with a player ranked as the number one spinner in the world and who will be a valuable asset on the spin-friendly World Cup wickets in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
With Brazil expecting a lasting economic boost from the World Cup, one area in which it believes it will achieve this is through an increased number of overseas visitors.
He has played all of his matches for Leicester this season bar one - the defeat by Cardiff Blues in the EDF Energy Cup last weekend - in the number 10 shirt, but says he still sees himself as an "inside back" who is equally at home at inside centre.
Meanwhile, US captain Corey Pavin put world number one Tiger Woods alongside Hunter Mahan while Steve Stricker, who won all four matches alongside Woods in the Presidents Cup a year ago, joined Zach Johnson.
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