Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell won their first Ryder Cup match before the rippled turned into a wave of royal blue as the Europeans continued secured wire-to-wire victories in five of the six Sunday showdowns as the tables turned at Celtic Manor.
But according to his calculations, during storms such as Monday's, the wave power potential down the 124 miles (200km) length of the Western Isles could match the output of 120 Torness-sized nuclear power stations.