Eastern Star Country Club & Resort

Overview: Eastern Star Country Club & Resort is an 18-hole Robert Trent Jones Jr. course in Ban Chang, Rayong, close to the eastern seaboard and the Gulf of Thailand. The operator gives a par of 72 and 7,134 yards across 520 acres. The routing was carved through a former coconut plantation and continues through residential sections of the resort, with gently undulating fairways, 65 bunkers, 11 lakes and more than 2,200 coconut palms. That combination creates a spacious tropical parkland course where the wind, water and tree lines all influence club selection. Its seaside position also contributes cooling breezes without turning the course into a links layout.

History: Eastern Star was designed and built in 1991 as part of the wider country-club and resort development. The operating company later renovated the clubhouse and improved cart paths, documenting those works as part of the facility's continuing development rather than a replacement of the original Jones routing. Company records continue to describe the same 18-hole course, clubhouse, restaurant and resort amenities, so the course's current identity is a maintained Jones design within an active mixed-use property.

Did You Know? The course's landscape is unusually literal: more than two thousand coconut palms are part of the official description, not just a generic tropical promise. Several holes also run through residential areas, so the round combines plantation scenery with the visual rhythm of a resort community while retaining the open space of the original property.