Scotland, who featured in the 1999 and 2007 World Cups, arrived in South Africa among the favourites for the qualifying competition.
The qualifying competition for the US Open starts next Monday, but Montgomerie currently going through a divorce, has opted to play at the Wales Open and the Diageo Championship instead.
But it looks increasibly likely that Rafael Benitez's side will be given a berth in the tournament at the expense of Fenerbahce, who will have to drop into the qualifying competition.
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With the two finalists in the competition qualifying for the lucrative Champions League the new season has been given extra spice.
Even though the Blues won the Champions League in 2012, they finished sixth in the league, failed to advance from this season's group stage and are in danger of not qualifying for the competition next term.
Celtic will play Portuguese Champions League debutants Braga in the third qualifying round of the competition.
The 16-year-old, who lost in the final round of qualifying for the senior competition, easily beat her Slovakian opponent 6-2 6-1 on Court 14.
The New York Genome Center was one of seven qualifying entrants to a city competition for funding and land to create a technology campus on Roosevelt Island.
Thirty two years on he has become the first manager since that tie to lead them to the same stage of the competition, four qualifying round victories earning a visit to Stockport.
At present he is just four one-hundredths of a second outside the qualifying standard for the mainstream competition in London - and his attempt to double up is inevitably attracting a lot of interest.
Qualifying for Europe's top club competition next year looks vital not just to Villas-Boas' job prospects, but also to Chelsea's short-term future.
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Davies' side will have to win their last three games against Cardiff Blues, Connacht and Glasgow Warriors to have any chance of qualifying automatically for rugby's premier club competition.
Having clinched the SPL title, the club has been rewarded with a place in the group stages of Europe's most lucrative club competition, thereby avoiding a difficult qualifying tie.
Arsenal, which won a tense game at Newcastle with a goal by Laurent Koscielny, will have to play a two-legged qualifying match in August to guarantee its place in the competition's group stage.
Winning the next competition is what it's about - not just qualifying for it.
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United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Rangers all reached the first round automatically, while Arsenal eased to a 5-1 aggregate victory over Celtic in qualifying to clinch their place in the lucrative stages of Europe's premier competition.
Ulster feel they have a great chance of qualifying for the knock-out stages for the first time since actually winning the European competition back in 1999.
When the captain of the Ghana national team, the Black Stars, holds up the cup at the end of the competition, let's all remember that those three nations were defeated in the qualifying rounds.
Robson missed out on a place in the senior competition when she lost to Spain's Nuria Llagostera Vives in the final round of qualifying for Flushing Meadows at the end of August.
The competition between Wales and England for the event mirrors their rivalry on the field in the 2012 European Championship qualifying tournament with the senior teams due to play their Group G matches next year in Cardiff on 26 March and at Wembley on 6 September.
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