Eventually, golf moved inland, and courses built away from coastal areas tended to be much more pastoral in setting and design: greener, lusher, lots of trees. They were "park-like," hence the term "parkland course."
A parkland course is a golf course in a lush, inland setting, one with well-manicured and watered fairways and rough and greens. There might be plenty of elevation change around such a course, but even if there is, a parkland course's fairways are generally flat, lacking the knobs and knolls and weird bounces of links fairways. A parkland course is usually in a treed landscape, fairways often tree-lined.
Most PGA Tour courses are parkland courses. Augusta National Golf Club is the parkland course that other parkland golf courses aspire to be.
See also:
The different types of golf courses
