A short social media video posted by professional surfer Jacob Szekely, known as “Zeke,” showing a person driving golf balls into the Pacific Ocean from a bluff above Blacks Beach has sparked widespread backlash online, with critics accusing the surfer and others in the video of reckless behavior and environmental disregard at one of San Diego’s most sensitive coastal areas.
The video, which appears to be an Instagram Story post, shows a shirtless man wearing a backward baseball cap swinging a golf club from a concrete pad above Blacks Beach. A location tag reading “Blacks Beach, San Diego, CA” is visible, along with the caption “Sickest Driving Range.” Several other young men appear nearby, watching and laughing as golf balls are hit in the direction of the shoreline below.
Screen grabs of the video were reposted to Reddit’s r/sandiego community, where the post quickly gained traction, drawing hundreds of comments and more than 900 upvotes within hours. Many commenters expressed outrage over what they interpreted as deliberate littering and dangerous behavior in or near protected coastal waters, questioning how such conduct could occur at a site closely associated with marine recreation and conservation…