bunkered and Editor Martin Dempster
honoured in industry awards

bunkered, Scotland’s top-selling golf magazine, has bolstered its reputation by winning two top industry awards.
In the 2008 Scottish Magazine of the Year Awards, Martin Dempster won ‘Consumer Magazine Editor of the Year’ while bunkered also won the award for ‘Best Brand Development’.
The annual awards ceremony was hosted by the Scottish arm of the Periodical Publishers Association and attracted
a total of 143 entries from 35 different companies.
“To win two of these prestigious awards is a tremendous achievement,” said Paul Grant, publisher of PSP Publishing
Ltd. “We are delighted that Martin has been recognised for his hard work for the company while it is equally pleasing that the bunkered brand has been honoured in such a way.”
Dempster, who has been at the helm of bunkered for five-and-a-half years, beat stiff competition to land his award, the other names on the shortlist of candidates being Nadine Hawkins (No.1), Paul McNamee (The Big Issue Scotland), Simon Harper (Clash), Cameron McNeish (The Great Outdoors (TGO)) and Devon Walshe (The Journal).
“Under his editorship, bunkered was voted ‘Consumer Magazine of the Year’ in 2004 and this latest award further underlines the professionalism that Martin displays in every aspect of his job,” added Grant.
In a massive coup for the magazine, bunkered recently signed up Colin Montgomerie as its new star columnist, the eight-times European No.1 joining the likes of former Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher and the highly-respected Arthur Montford.
In addition to bunkered, Dempster is also editor of Glasgow-based PSP Publishing’s hugely-successful series of golf newspapers – Scottish Club Golfer, English Club Golfer and Welsh Club Golfer.
“Martin is one of the most respected golf journalists in the United Kingdom and this award is well deserved for his excellent work across all our titles,” commented Grant, who launched bunkered 12 years ago in tandem with his two business partners, Tom Lovering and Stephen McCann.
Since then, they have established bunkered as one of the top golfing brands in Scotland and the magazine beat No.1 (PSP Publishing), Bratz (D C Thomson), Clash (Clash Music Group) and The Skinny (Radge Media) to land the PPA award.
In addition to bunkered itself, the magazine’s brand has become iconic in Scottish golf through the bunkered Green Fee Savers, bunkered Golfers’ Club, bunkered Diary, bunkered Wallplanner, bunkered Holiday Golf Guides and, more recently, the bunkered Matchplay Challenge, a Ryder Cup-style event between Scotland’s top amateurs and the
leading home-based professionals.
“We had a vision for bunkered from the outset and this award underlines the fact that the brand is very much to the fore in the Scottish magazine industry,” concluded Grant.
The PPA ceremony was held at the Radisson Hotel, Glasgow, where 400 people were entertained by comedian Craig Hill.