RENO, Nev. -- The momentum slipping away in the Reno-Tahoe Open, Gary Woodland got out of trouble in a hurry on the par-4 14th hole. After nearly losing his ball in the pine needles and sagebrush, Woodland chipped in from the rough from 58 feet for one of his four birdies Sunday en route to his second PGA Tour victory. "I got lucky to find my ball on 14 there in the hazard and I kind of chopped it out," Woodland said. "The chip that went in I was just trying to get it on the green, let alone go in. It was one of the best shots Ive ever hit." Woodland finished with 44 points in the modified Stableford format that awards eight points for double eagle, five for eagle, two for birdie, zero for par, minus-one for bogey and minus-three for double bogey or worse. Jonathan Byrd and Andres Romero tied for second with 35 points, and Brendon Steele had 33 at Montreux Golf Club on the edge of the Sierra. Woodland, also the 2011 Transitions Championship winner as a tour rookie, earned $540,000 for the victory and got a spot next week in the PGA Championship. "It felt like it was meant to be this week," said Woodland, whose best finishes this year had been three ties for 16th at the Phoenix Open, Memorial and AT&T National. "I tried to stay calm and really focus on what I was doing." Byrd had an eagle, seven birdies and a bogey to set a single-day scoring record with 18 Stableford points that would have equaled a round of 64 under the usual format. Dicky Pride and David Mathis tied for fifth with 32 points, followed by Seung-Yui Noh and Rory Sabatini with 31, and Chris DiMarco with 30. David Toms and Stuart Applebby tied for 16th with 26 points. Ottawas Brad Fritsch had six points to finish with 25, to tie for 20th place. His round featured a hole-in-one and a pair of birdies. Woodland, the 2011 PGA Tour rookie of the year who played basketball at Washburn before transferring to Kansas and becoming a golfer for the Jayhawks, didnt have a bogey Sunday until the 17th hole thanks to some nifty work around the greens getting up and down to save par five times on the day. "Even though I wasnt hitting greens I was hitting it in the right spots and gave myself opportunities to get up and down," he said. On the front nine, Woodland had sand saves out of three greenside bunkers and made his only birdie from 7 feet on the par-3 second. After he drove into the waste area on the 367-yard, par-4 14th, he hit 20 yards over the green into the rough before watching his 58-foot chip roll against the pin and into the cup. He added a 21-foot birdie putt on the next hole to open up an eight-point lead over the late-charging Byrd and Woodlands playing partner Steele, who made his birdie putt ahead of Woodland on the 15th. "To follow up after Brendon Steele made the putt on 15, to answer him was huge," Woodland said. "He had a lot of momentum and I sort of stole it all back and sort of rode it the rest of the way." He closed with a birdie on the 616-yard 18th when he drove 338 yards into the middle of the fairway, hit his approach 231 yards just in front of the green, chipped to 2 feet and tapped in for the win that also earned him his tour card for the next two years and boosted him from 116th to 54th in the FedExCup standings. Byrd birdied five of his first seven holes then eagled the par-5 13th when he hit his second shot 219 yards to inside 7 feet. "My whole mindset was just to be a little more aggressive and give ourselves chances and just free it up," he said. "And I was able to do that today getting off to a hot start. ... Just felt like I was off to the races." 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Ryan Garbutt had a goal and two assists as Dallas snapped a six-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night. Swell Bottle Italia .1 million pounds ($61.2 million) on Saturday, giving the beleaguered English Premier League champions a major lift. The six crew chiefs who guide the remaining Chase for the Sprint Cup drivers competing for spots in the championship round will have it a little easy Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway.They will have it easy in the sense they wont have to worry about performing any mid-race calculations on points. They will know what they have to do simply by looking at the track: Its all about whether their drivers are in front or behind their Chase counterparts.With two spots available and four of the drivers within two points of each other, only a win can guarantee any of them a spot to join Jimmie Johnson (Martinsville winner) and Carl Edwards (Texas winner) among the four championship finalists wholl race for the Cup title the following Sunday at Homestead.Joey Logano and Kyle Busch currently are tied for those two spots, while Matt Kenseth is a point behind and Denny Hamlin is two points back. Kevin Harvick sits 18 behind and Kurt Busch is 34 back. A win automatically will earn any of these drivers a bid to the championship round, with the remaining spot (or two if none of them win) being awarded based on points.Its going to be entertaining, said Logano, who could clinch a spot if he finishes second and leads a lap. Its going to be probably the closest Phoenix race weve ever seen as far as points. Its going to be a fun one for sure.Hamlin predicted Sunday night that a second-place finish should get him to the next round. But theres no guarantee. If Harvick wins -- and Harvick has won six of the past eight Phoenix races -- and Logano or Kyle Busch finishes third, it could come down to whether any of the drivers leads a lap (one bonus point) or the most laps (another bonus point).At least the crew chiefs and drivers should know the scenarios as they race late in the event. They know they will need to battle the other Chase drivers for position. And for Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Kyle Busch, Kenseth and Hamlin, that means battling teammates.Youve got to just do everything you can, Hamlin said. It will be just like Martinsville or even at Texas. We all raced each other hard but clean, and were going to go out there and try to get every point we can.Heres the outlook for the drivers going into the penultimate race:Joey Logano (third)Points: 1 point ahead of fifth Clinch if finishes: second and leads a lapOutlook: Logano has a career-best third at Phoenix (he has won two Xfinity races there), but his biggest challenge is that Phoenix was not a good track for him in March, where he started ninth annd finished 18th.dddddddddddd. The best thing going for Logano is his second-place finish Sunday at Texas puts him atop the tiebreaker board. The tiebreaker is best finish, and if still tied, the next-best finish. If drivers end up with the same three finishes, whoever got the best finish earliest in the round earns the spot. The drivers currently rank: Logano (2nd/9th), Hamlin (3rd/9th), Kenseth (4th/7th), Kyle Busch (5th/5th), Harvick (20th/6th), and Kurt Busch (22nd/20th).Kyle Busch (fourth)Points: 1 point ahead of fifth Clinch if finishes: second and leads the most lapsOutlook: Busch has back-to-back fourth-place finishes at Phoenix. That might be good enough to advance, but thats far from a guarantee. He has put himself in position with a pair of fifth-place finishes in this round. The defending Cup champion knows when to step it up. Its time.Matt Kenseth (fifth)Points: 1 point behind fourth Clinch if finishes: firstOutlook: Kenseth has just one top-5 finish (third in 2014) in his past 16 races at Phoenix. He won at Phoenix in November 2002. He knows he needs to gain just one point, and maybe two, on his Chase rivals to advance. It might be the hardest one or two points he has ever had to gain in his career.Denny Hamlin (sixth)Points: 2 points behind fourth Clinch if finishes: firstOutlook: Hamlin said he thinks it will take a second-place finish to advance out of Phoenix. He was third there in March, so that makes him confident he can do it. He has finished top-2 twice at Phoenix -- both races in 2012, winning in March and finishing second in November.Kevin Harvick (seventh)Points: 18 points behind fourth Clinch if finishes: firstOutlook: The winner of five of the past six and six of the past eight races at Phoenix, Harvick goes there as the driver to beat. He has led 1,064 laps in the past six races on the 1-mile oval, so he knows he can win at the track. But one hiccup and hopes of his second title will vanish.Kurt Busch (eighth)Points: 34 points behind fifth Clinch if finishes: firstOutlook: Busch has five top-10s in his past six races at Phoenix. But even a second-place finish likely wouldnt be good enough for him to advance. The last time Busch won at Phoenix was in April 2005. He hasnt led a lap in his past eight Phoenix starts and has led a lap in only three of his past 16 Cup races this season. Thats not a sign he advances to the next round. ' ' '