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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
JANURAY 2011
VOL 2, NO 9
services are provided to the customers. There is need to explore this industry through specific
researches as the hospitality industry of any country can make a lot for the country in sense of
repute among other countries, visitor and money for the country. That is the reason the
researcher choose this topic so that to have broader view of the hospitality industry providing
services in Pakistan.
This research will indicate the problems which the employees of the organization are facing.
The problems may be of several kind and nature therefore, according to the nature some
recommendation will be suggested to the organization after having complete overview of the
problems at the end of the research. These recommendations will not only helpful to attain
greater satisfaction level of the employees but also other companies in competition will
change there strategy to compete with the other organizations by having strong team and
workforce. As a result companies will get progress in the market and growth of the economy
of Pakistan will also rise.
3. Literature Review
The Lahore Gymkhana Golf club is considered to be one of the oldest Golf Clubs in Pakistan
and is believed to have been founded in the late years of 19th century some time after the
1857 War of independence. The first organization golf tournament played over its course was
most probably the Champion Medal (Roe Medal) held in January 1895, the first being one Mr.
F.A. Robertson. In its early days, the Club experienced great financial difficulties and it was
only the members through who‘s personal efforts it kept going Ironically, the financial
problems increased with the passage of time and in MARCH 1940 the golf committee
approached the LAHORE & MIANMIR INSTITUTE (re-named in January 1906, as the
LAHORE GYMKHANA CLUB) to take over the management of the golf Club under its
administrative control. This proposal was agreed to and the golf Club became a part of the
LAHORE & MIANMIR 1904, this eased the financial difficulties of the Club to some extent
because the INSTITUTE not only helped the golf Club financially but also the sanctioned
some staff for the golf course. The Club had to face yet another problem. The land on gold
Road, near the Race Course, occupied by the club for its Gold course actually belongs to the
Govt. which needed it for its own use. After a lot of efforts, however this problem too found a
satisfactory solution when Nazul Land, belonging to the Zamindars of village Mianmir,
measuring 167 acres, was leased out by Govt. to the gymkhana Club on 1st April, 1921.
The golf membership up to the independence in 1947 consisted mainly of foreigners, it was
only in the year 1949 the golf started becoming popular amongst the Pakistani Members of the
Gymkhana Club. During this period, considerable improvements were made to the course.
Originally the course had only 15 holes, the first and the last two holes, being played again,
from different tees, to make a total of 18 holes. The present 13th, 14th and 15th holes, in the
triangular area, were later constructed to have a proper 18-hole course.
Major General Said Ghawas who became the President of the Club in 1961 was another golfer
who effected more improvements to the course. The Course hitherto had sand 'browns; and the
irrigation of the course depended on water supply from canal which was inadequate. He got
the sand 'browns' covered with local grass and installed an electric water pump for watering
the course and the flat 'greens'. More improvements were brought about during the years 1962,
1963 and 1964 when Maj. Gen. Khawaja Wasiullah was elected as President of the Golf Club.
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