VinnyLinks at Shelby Golf Course

VinnyLinks is a nine-hole, 1,210-yard par-3 course in Shelby Park, East Nashville, beside the Cumberland River and next to Shelby Golf Course. Metro Parks owns it and the First Tee of Tennessee runs it as its home course, and it is open to the public from March to November. It is named for country music star Vince Gill. The ground has been a golf course since 1930, when a nine-hole course named Riverview opened here; Lou Graham, the 1975 U.S. Open champion, learned the game on it as a boy. Riverview was renovated in 1967, closed after the 1998 season and was completely rebuilt as a First Tee facility with a new learning center and clubhouse, reopening on 9 May 2001. The course plaque credits the design to "Donald Ross ‘Inspired’". Ross plans for a nine-hole course in the park were reported found shortly before the rebuild, and the Donald Ross Society lists VinnyLinks as a Ross course, but Ross never built a course on this ground and no source shows which of his plans the rebuild followed. Greens Visited lists it as Disputed.