HOLLIS – Organizers are optimistic this year’s fifth annual Tory Marandos Golf Tournament will surpass last year’s $7,000 and perhaps even raise record funds for the foundation created in memory of the Nashua native following his violent 2006 death.

The tourney is scheduled for Monday, June 25, at Overlook Country Club. It begins with an 8:30 a.m. start and is limited to 130 players. Registrations will be taken online up to and including the day of the tourney, or until all 130 slots are filled.

An energetic, conscientious man, Marandos was just 30 the night he and two other people were killed in a barrage of gunfire in the New Bedford, Mass. nightclub he was managing for his uncle.

Felled just as he was embarking on a promising business career, which included one day owning his uncle’s three nightclubs and other ventures, Marandos had long been focused on becoming successful.

“Starting and owning a successful business is something Tory felt very strongly about,” his sister, Tara Marandos, said as she and her family planned the first golf tourney in 2008.

The tourney was also the first fundraiser for the newly founded Tory Foundation, later renamed the Tory C. Marandos Foundation. The entity also created the Tory C. Marandos Entrepreneurship Challenge, a competition for young New Hampshire businesses under 3 years old that have less than $1 million in annual gross revenue. The competition, the winner of which receives a cash prize, is run by Southern New Hampshire University’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation, to which the Marandos family pledged $100,000.

The mass shooting, perpetrated by a man said to be angry over being barred from the club, erupted in the early morning hours of Dec. 12, 2006, and also killed a security associate; the shooter died as well. Several others were injured.

In the days and weeks following the tragic event, Tory’s parents, Cosmos and Lynda Marandos, and his sister Tara worked through their grief by concentrating on the foundation and its future possibilities.

The idea for a golf fundraiser took hold because the game was another of Tory Marandos’ passions, his sister said. He worked at Nashua Country Club during high school, which made it easy to play a few holes before or after work. Ironically, just months before his death, Marandos had organized and run a memorial golf tournament in honor of someone connected to the Foxy Lady, the New Bedford club he managed.

Dean Shalhoup can be reached at 594-6443 or dshalhoup@nashua
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