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Detroit Free Press Investigated Pollution Caused by Golfers Hitting Thousands of Golf Balls Into Lake Michigan

AS REPORTED BY THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, a premier Michigan golf course encouraged golfers to whack golf balls into Lake Michigan. They've obliged for 20 years, sending thousands of golf balls into the expansive waters.

"Go ahead and do it, everyone does," the prestigious Arcadia Bluffs golf course urged on its website as recently as last Tuesday, in its description of the 12th hole on its Bluffs Course, on a cliff overlooking Lake Michigan.
"Once you've launched a ball into Lake Michigan, on purpose, turn your attention to the native bunker on the right side of the fairway as it is your aiming point on the tee shot.