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Boy Pluto, the Indianapolis based brand’s mascot tees off Pluto Golf Indianapolis is better known as a Midwest motorsports mecca and basketball bastion than a city built for golf sickos. It’s home to Brickyard Crossing, where four holes are plotted inside the track that hosts the Indy 500 and Brickyard 400, and where Larry Bird’s legend began and where Caitlin Clark currently packs Gainbridge Fieldhouse with her long-range swishes. But a pair of smooth-swinging diehards—Quentin Purtee and Leen Dhillon, the brain trust behind Pluto Golf—are determined to expand their hometown’s sports narrative, building a golf brand aimed squarely at sneakerheads like themselves while uplifting Hoosier State creative talent along the way. Bros at First Sight Purtee and Dhillon became instant friends as freshmen at Indiana University in Bloomington, bonding the moment they crossed paths and realized they were basically dressed as each other’s reflection. “Literally, the first week we get to campus, we see each other and we’re both just wearing clothes that people in Indiana don’t normally wear—Supreme, Bape, Jordans,” Purtee said. “That was in 2012 at the peak of that era. I was into shoes and super into streetwear.” Their shared taste in sneakers wasn’t just a casual hobby—it bordered on obsession. They shared a mutual appreciation for Nike SB Dunks, retro Jordans, and the signature kicks Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady and Allen Iverson sported in their primes. They can nerd out at great length over toe box design or low top ankle support with the verve and gravitas of an art critic waxing deep on fauvism. Purtee jokes that his future Pluto co-founder was way more invested than anyone he knew.“I think he had $500 in his bank account and maybe $100,000 worth of sneakers,” Purtee said. “I didn’t have 200 pairs of shoes like Leen had,…

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