 During the next several years, mutually satisfactory arrangements were made with the bondholders and in 1948 the club obtained a new charter and started to operate as the Essex Golf & Country Club on June 1, 1949.From its birth, Essex was placed by knowledgeable golfers in the front rank of courses anywhere.This carried a lot of prestige since within a hundred miles are found Oakland Hills, Detroit Golf Club, Country Club of Detroit, Franklin Hills, Meadowbrook, all in the Detroit area and Inverness in Toledo.