Golf in Pontiac

Pontiac is the county seat of Oakland County, a city whose position at the center of one of Michigan's most affluent counties belies its own economic struggles—the departure of GM's manufacturing from Pontiac left significant unemployment and disinvestment that the city has worked to address for decades even as the surrounding Oakland County suburbs thrived. The Silverdome—once the largest air-supported domed stadium in the world, now demolished—and the Detroit Lions' tenure there reflect Pontiac's ambition and the difficulty of sustaining that ambition without the manufacturing base that once supported it. Multiple golf courses serve the Pontiac area's county-seat market.